The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-26
WILL THEY GET
WLEYS SCALP?

VIII the doped-food interests get
Wiiey's scalp this timer" This is the
question of the hour
Never did little benzoate of soda
set up such chemical reaction Reso-
buttons are being introduced in con-
sress calling for Information, and the
combat has raised a dizzy daze of dust
IN administration circles People are
not talking about reciprocity. but
about Wiley. There is not the slight
est Misunderstanding about the cause.
ne enemies of pure food laws do not
give a rap for DR. Rusby. whose
technically irregular connection with
the pay roll furnished the committee
on personnel with an excuse for ask
ing that DIR. Wiley be given an op
portunity to resign"
The Rusby case is nothing II docs
not make a pretense of being anv
thing more than fimsy excuse. de-
liberately worked up bv tho food
dopers, to get Wiley out of the wav
1t is a flank attack in the old war
against the chief of the bureau of
chemistry
Many attempts to secure the dis
naissal 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 n him. and even
those practical politicians who are
always ready to serve certain inter-
ests have been afraid to break.
Wiley on plain issue For a long
time they have been looking for a
reasonable excuse to attack him bv
subterfuge, and they seized upon the
Rusby case iwth frantic eagerness.
Dr. Wiley has made many enemies
and antagonized many interests in the
course of his administration, but the
users of benzoate of soad being per-
maps the most vitality concerned. are
naturally his most active enemies.
The reason of their concern is easily
understood. They can gather big
profits from the use of the waste of
canning factories in the manufacture
OF foods and sauces, but this waste
Is not useable unless it is preserved by
some artificial means, benzoate of soda
being preferred
1t is not merely a question as to the
harmfulness of benzoate itself 1t is a
question of being able to use nauseous
and unfit material.
The secretary of the American Health
League in Ohio in a bulletin issued
October %, 1909. describes a visit he
made to tomato canning factory.
where he studied the methods of han
ding the waste and refuse consisting
of skins, cores, and rotten pulp" The
tomatoes are handled during the short
harvest season in cheaply constructed
and shed-like buildings, usually in re-
mote localities. where proper sewer
age and other sanitary facilities are
unavailable"
In spite of all these adverse condi-
tions,' he says. however, sthe canned
tomato product quickly handled into
its final containers, and thoroughly
sterilized as it is is undoubtedly for
the most part a most wholesome article
Of food supply, and is rarely. In these
days at least. subject to any artificial
preservative treatment
But the wasted This" he continues.
is most repulsive. nasueating mass
of fermented, rotten garbage. consist
ing of Feelings, cuttings and decayed
and partly ripe tomatoes, loosely and
carelessly handled. 1t is scooped up
with shovels and buckets from the
floors. and afterwards is treated with
a quantity of benzoate of soda, there
by protecting it from ultimate putrid-
ity. In other words it is embalmed.r
In this condition" the bulletin goes
on to say. lit is finally sold to food
manufacturers who make it up into
ketchups. soups, etc, which are palmed
off on the public as being made from
fresh. ripe, sound tomatoes prepared
with lilo Of l per cent benzoate of
soda DIR. A. w. Biting. of the United
states department of agriculture, in a
repart of his investigation of ketchup
states that the great bulk of
tomato ketchup in the market is made
of this material"
These manufacturers are the fellows
that DR.. Wiley has been after. In his
work he has run down hundreds of vio-
iators of the law, who have been fined
and their products confiscated and de-
stroyed. In a bulletin issued June IS,
1911, by the department. of agriculture
signed by Secretary Wilson, there is an |
account of seizure of three consign-
ments of tomato paste. totaling 202
barrels. shipped from canning factory |
in New Jersey" The complaint charg-
ed that this tomato paste was adulter- |
ated. and consisted of filthy. decom- |
posed and putrid vegetable substances |
When the case came to a hearing the |
claimant of the products failed to APP
pear and the court ordered the tomato |
paste destroyed. This is only one In /
stance in hundreds of DR.. Wiley's eff |
fcient work in behalf of the people !