The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-16
PUTS HIS 'O.K." {" ON WILEY Says Food Syndicate Is Try
 ing to Dust Him FOR FACTS Alabama Man Says He Is Sure That the Food Adulterators Are be-
 hind the Efforts to Dis
 credit Wiley
FOR FACTS
By WALTER HARPER

Washington, July 15.-t Especially rongressman William Richardson of Alabama is highly indignant over the efforts 10 oust pr. Harvey w. Wiley as head of the bureau of chemistry of the agricultural department
 He declares emphatically that the present campaign against the pure food expert and champion. which Is hinged upon the flimsiest sort of technicality is the last move of the food syndicate to get rid of their most formidable enemy in their schemes of defraudins the public with impure foods More than this the trust is receiving the backing of men in official positions who are either blinded to their duties to the people or have some political or other ends to gain.
 Judge Richardson, who has been in .terested in pure food legislation for more than 15 years and has watched the work of pr. Wiley closely, said today:
 ''The fight against pr. Wiley is so apparently the work of food adultera- tors that no thinking man can nave any patience with 1t. pr. Wiley may have committed a technical error, but it was for the good of the service He had the sanction of his superior officer and he adopted the only method that could be devised at the time for ar ranging the matter in question.
 If pr. Wiley deserves 'condign pun ishment' as is declared by Attorney General Wickersham. what greater punishment does Wickersham himself deserve when on the same technicality he has paid out or authorized the pay Ing out of thousands of dollars of the peoples money without even the form ality of demanding itemized accounts?
 T tell you this Is a dark piece of busi- ness and the people will not allow 1t to pass without full and thorough investi- gation Dr. Wiley has been consistent and earnest in his efforts to enforce the pure food laws. He has been the real and only true friend of the people who eat. He Is the avowed enemy of those manufactur- CTS who are disposed to adulterate their foods and they have made more than enc attempt to have him removed.
 ..Dr. Wiley will not be removed from office The high officials of the goyern- ment cannot afford to insist on his resig- DdilOn. ] ana OlistS Ol HIS iIIcIibS Aef . advised him to sit steady in the boat and he is sitting very steady. The committee OH expenditures in the agricultural de- pa rtment has already got busy and will go to the bottom of the whole affair This committee wants the truth and will get it. The people of the country deserve to know the truth and they shall have it.
 ''If I had not been so closely associated with pr. Wiley for the past many years
 h fu Bar+ fri people of the country have l would not tale so much interest in the matter, but know what I am talking about"
 Congressman Cox of Indiana has served notice that he will in a few days intro duce a resolution directing the depart nent or agriculture and the department of justice all the complaints that have been made against Dr. Wiley since he
 went into office. MT. Cox believes that thsi information will show that the food interests are interested in the discharge of the chief chemist