Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-07-14

an ownership cable of kind connecting them with
one of the over-the-sea powers.
AS Mr.. Boutell put it: TT seems possible that
having purchased his coat of arms, jefferson
feared that on the declaration of independence
and the establishment of a republican form of
government it would not be available asset
and SO he hoped that dependence would continue
The memory of this speech dwes in congress.
1t was Intentionally light, but it drove home the
lesson that frailties of certain kind are not
confined to members Of any political party.
When in the future American citizen dies as
the result Of eating aduterated food that has been
an article entering into interstate commerce, a
coroner's jury will be justified In bringing in
verdict Of suicide. In order not to be too hard
the deceased, the jury may give the cause as
carelessness, but whichever Of the twain the YER
dict be, the recently died" will be held RESPONSE
ble
The purefood bill which passed Congress Is
a strong measure Pror to its passage it was
the cause Of more misunderstanding more sus-
ptcions 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
piloted the bill through the house. He was ex-
FOUNDER and exhorter and during tie greater part
of four days he held the interest of the seasoned
members school teacher holds the interest of
wideopen-eyed children to whom tales of hither-
to unknown are told-and it tales of the
Washington-gath children of a larger growth.
For amazement and curiosity, for interest and
indignation there was 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 a situation, assauges anger and
disarms the man whose tongue under stress of
temper becomes sharp weapon.
There were few jokes during the discussion Of
the purefood bill. The subject was as deadly
serious as were some of the food" products dis
played on the Chicago representatives. desk Once
In a while the gravity relieved by uuip
but as matter of fact the joke of the thing was
OF the pasta huge joke II 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 American firm that had
been importing rotten-yes, rotten-eggs, which,
after treatment with boric acid, were 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 t1me-often extended
allotted to him to press this bill to a 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