The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

ownership cable of kind connecting them with
one of the over-the-sea powers
As Mr. Boutell put it: 1T seems possible that.
having purchased his coat of arms Jefferson
feared that on the declaration of independence
and the establishment of republican form of
government it would not be available asset,
and so he hoped that dependence would continue"
The memory of this speech dwells in congress,
1t Intentionally light but it drove home the
lesson that fraties of certain kind not
confined to members of any political party
When in the future American citizen dies
the result of eating adulterated food that has been
article entering into interstate commerce, a
coroner's jury will be justified in bringing in q
verdict of suicide. In order not to be too hard on
the deceased, the jury may give the as
careessness. but whichever of the twain the ver-
dict be- the recently died" will be held RESPONSE
BILE.
The pure-food bill which passed Congress is
a strong measure. Proir TO its passage it was
tie of more misunderstanding more sus-
picions and of more abuse of men and measures
than was any other which congress thought it
worth while to consider
Representative James r. Mann of Chicago
pioted the bill through the house He
FOUNDER and exhorter and during the greater part
of four days he held the interest of the seasoned
members as a school teacher holds the interest of
wde-open-eyed children TO whom tales of hither-
to unknown are told-and it tales of the
hitherto unknown that Mr.. Mann told to the
Washington gathered children of a larger growth.
For amazement and curiosity, for interest and
indignation there was no scene of the winter in
the big hall of congress like unto that enacted
while the Hyde Park representative set forth his
wares in bottle and in box and gave his colleagues
full knowledge of the indigestible and poisonous
stuff that the stomach of the American had been
taking to its own all the years under the sacred
names of food and medicine
The house has upon most occasions the saving
grace of taking things in part humorously. A
joke saves many situation, assauges anger and
disarms the man whose tongue under stress of
temper becomes a sharp weapon.
There were few jokes during the discussion of
the pure-food bill. The subject deadly
serious some of the food products dis
played on the Chicago representatives desk Once
in while the gravity was relieved by a quip
but as matter of fact the joke of the thing was
of the pasta huge joke If grim one, cracked
by food preparers and medicine manufacturers
at the expense of the stomachs and the livers of
the American people.
Mr.. Mann told of an American firm that had
been importing rotten-yes, rotten-eggs, which
after treatment with boric acid, sold to
candy-makers and cakebakers Mr. Gaines of
Tennessee expressed gratitude that the imports
did not get into eggnoggs. The laugh was faint
Every member was thinking of the candy and
the cake and stomachs of the child multitude
The half has never been told in the public
prints of the food frauds which Representative
Mann disclosed in the time-often extended
allotted to him to press this bill to passage
Some of his exhibits were ground coffee" made
of roasted beans oats, pilot bread, charcoal red
slate, bark and date stones; cinnamon made of