Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-25
ROTTEN PUTRID MASS MADE "FOOD' BYUSE OF
 BENzOATE OF SODA
Opponents Of Wiley Would Force People to Eat
 Filthy Waste
COUNTRY BACKS HIM UP

Win the doped-food interest get Mileys' scalp this timer" This is the question of the hour.
 Never did a little benzoate Of soda set up such chemical reaction. Resolutions are being. introduced in congress calling for information, and the combat has raised a dizzy daze of dust in administration circles Peolpe are not talking about reclproe- fty, but about Wiley. There is not the slightest misunderstanding about the case. The enemies of tho pure food laws do not give a rap for Dr. Rnsby, whose technically irregular connection with the payroll fur nished the committee on personnel with an excuse for asking that Dr Wiley be given an opportunity to resign
 The Rusby case is nothing. It does but make a pretense of being any thing more than 8 fiinasy excuse. de lberately worked up by the food dopers, to get Wiley out of the way. 1t is a flank attack in the old war against the chief of the bureau of chemistry.
 Many attempts to secure the dis missal of Dr. Wiley have been made during the past few years. They have not only failed, but the doctor has emerged strengthened in popularity after each contest. The people have the utmost faith in him, and even those practical politicians who are always ready to serve certain inter ests have been afraid to break Wiley on a plain issue. For a long time they have been looking for reasonable excuse to attack him bv subterfuge, and they seized upon the Rusby case with frantic eager ness. Dr. Wiley has made many enemies and antagonixed many interests Tn inc course of his administration, buJ tlse users of benzOate of soda being perhaps the most yitaliy concerned, are naturally his most active enc mics. The reason Of their concern IS easily understood. They can gather big profits from the use oI the waste of canning factories in the manufacture of foods and sauces, but this waste is not usable unless 1t Is preserved by some artificial means, benzoate Of soda being preferred.
 IL is not merely a question as to the haTmfulness of benzoate it. self. if is a question of being able 10 use nauseous and unfit material.
 The secretary of the American Health League in Ohio, in a bulletin issued October 25, 1909, described Q visit he made to a tomato canning factory where he studied the meth ods of handling the waste and re fuse. consisting of skins, cores, and rotten pulp" The tomatoes are handled during the short harvest season in chcaply constructed and shed-like buildings. usually in re mote localities, where proper sewer age and other sanitary facilities are unavailable"
 Tn spite of ali these adverse con ditions, he says, however, the can ned tomato product quickly handled into it's final containers, and thor oughly sterilized as 1t is, is undoubt edIy for the most part a wholesome article of food supply, and is rarely in these days. at least, subject C any artificial preservatiye treatment
 'But the wastei This" he conun Hes. is a most repuisive, naseauns mass of fermented, rotten garbage consisting of pcelings, cuttings, an1
 
 decayed and partly ripe tomatoes loosely and carelessly handled. It ]. scooDed up with shoyels and bucket' from inc floors, and afterwaTd i' treated with a quantity of benzoats CT soda, thereby protecting 1t from ui innate putTidity. In other words is embaimed.
 Tn this eondition.' the bulletin goes oD to say. "ft is finally sold tC food manufacturers who make 1t hi into ketehups, soups, etc, which ar' Dsllned off on the public as beini made from fresh. ripe, sound toma foes. nreDared with a i-l0 ot l pei cent benzJate of soda. Dr. A W Putting. of the United States depart rneuf of agriculture, in repor of his inv estigatloRs of ketchup max ing states that the great bulk O tomato ketchup in the market made of this material
 These manufacturers are the Tel lows that Dr. Wiley has been after Iu his work he has run down hun dreds of yfolators of the laW, Wn' haze been fined and their producl cenfiseated and destroyed In a bul Iefin issued June te, Iyll,. Sy the de partruent of agriculture signed l3 Secretary Wilson. there is an ae count of seizure of three eonsign rents of tomato paste. totaiing 70 barrels shipped from a canning fae ferv in New Jersey The complain cbsraes that this tomato paste wa adultered ard consisted of fiith 6eeomposed and putrid vegetable sut stances.
 When the case came to a heariui inc claimant of tae products taiie' I'd anuear. and the court ordered th tomafo haste destroyed. This is oni one instance in hundreds of br. w 1cv's eficient work in behalf of to peo1.le. No wonder the doped foo uakers say that their industry ! Iesrv .ruined,r and their bitter figa on wiley is not hard to understand
 But few neople believe that the rvi5f succeed in having Dr. We oarted on a teehnicality. He has pr' 4sgfed the foo6 of the people fc tvrenfv-tiqe years against the iIau. ,,iert misunderstanding interests Ii t.. a thousand friends where he Ina ns ns enemy. and it is not thought pol 1 +.,f President Taft, even g