Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-07-27

ownership cable of kind connecting them with
one of the over-the-sea powers
AS Mr. Bouten put it: 1T seems possible that
having purchased his coat of arms, jefferson
feared that 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 dwells in congress.
1t Intentionally light but it drove home the
lesson that frailties Of certain kind not
confined to members of any political party
When in the future an American citizen dies as
the result of eating aduterated food that has been
an article entering into interstate commerce.
coroner's jury will be justified in bringing In
verdict of suicide In order not to be too hard on
the deceased the jury may give the cause as
careessness but whichever of the twain the YER
dict be- the recently died will be held RESPONSE
BILE
The purefood bill which passed Congress is
a strcag measure. Proir to its passage It
the cause of Misunderstanding, more
picons and of more abuse of men and measures
than any other which congress thought It
worth while to consider.
Representative James r. Mann OF Chicago
piloted 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 a school teacher holds the interest OF
wideopen-eyed children to whom tales of a hither
TO unknown are told-and It tales OF the
hitherto unknown that Mr.. Mann told to the
Washington-g gathered children of a larger growth
For Amusement and curiosity for interest and
indignation there scene of the winter in
the big hall Of congress like unto that enacted
while the Hyde Park representative set forth his
in bottle and in box and gave his colleagues
full knowledge OF the indigestible and poisonous
stun that the stomach of the American had been
taking to its 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 some Of the food" products dis
played on the Chicago representatives desk Once
In while the gravity was relieved by a ouip.
hut matter Of fact the joke of the thing was
Of the pasta huge joke II a 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 were sold to
candy-makers and cake-bakers Mr.. Gaines OF
Tennessee expressed gratitude that the imports
did not get into eggnoggs The laugh was faint
Every member 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 tme-often extended
allotted to him to press this bill to a passage
Some Of his exhibits we're ground coffee" made
Of roasted beans oats. pilot bread charcoal red
Elate. bark and date Efones. cinnamon NADIA,