The Washington times., 1911-07-15
DR.. WILEY AND THE FIGHT
TO GUST HIM.

charges on which DR.. Wiley has beel
urged to resign from his position a
chief chemist may be understood onl,
in connection with knowledge of tn,
long campaign to drive the pure fooc
evangel out of public service.
From the very beginning Wiley hal
sustained fight against the most pow
erful interests that in many years have
concentrated opposition on a public
man. He fought the food fxers ant
drug dopers many years to get a ma
tional pure food act, and won. As
soon as this was achieved his enemies
set about to get him discharged from
the post of chief executive OF that law
Failing in this, they tried to get his
hands tied, and in this they largely
succeeded.
First, there was created the board
of review, composed of three members,
Wiley, Solicitor McCabe, of the Agri-
cultural Department, and Assistant
Chemist Dunlap. From the day it was
created this board was recognized as a
means to holding Wiley down." 1t
decided time and again in opposition
to Wiley, the votes of McCabe and
Dunlap overweighing that of Wiley.
Needless to say, Wiley in these cases
stood for the rigorous enforcement of
the law, for making it give the largest
protection to the public.
In the famous What is Whisky 2"
case, which lasted years, Wiley stood
throughout for requiring that whisky
must be whisky-not mixed neutral
spirits, prune juice, Drowned sugar, etc.
President Taft himself wrote the de-
cision that finally overturned Wiley.
When Bonaparte was Attorney General
he declared that the neutral spirits
concoction must be labeled limitation
of whisky That sustained Wiley.
President Taft found that it could be
called blend of whisky.
Naturally, the plotters at the Agri-
cultural Department felt confident of
White House sympathy in their fight
on Wiley. He had been inconsiderate
of important business interests"
In the benzoate of soda case, Wiley
held long and very careful experiments
and decided that benzoate was not fit
to be used in food. The public was 80
overwhelmingly on Wiley's side, and
so were the State food authorities and
experts, that to overturn this finding
and give the dopers full swing was a
difficult and dangerous business, to be
handled with much circumspection. So
the Remsen board of chemistry appeals
was established. There was no law
it, and its creation was
ultra-legal proceeding, in
to which the technical i'm
propriety for which Wiley is asked to
resign becomes a bit of diluted humor.
But the Remsen board did it's busi-
ness: it judicially found that benzoate
was fine; just what we need; oughtn't
to be any limitation of the amount fed
us and our babies.
= Who was right? Well, the Prus-
sian scientific food investigators have
just reported on their investigation
and experimentation with benzoate.
They reviewed Wiley's findings and
hose of the Remsen board.
THEY SUSTAINED WILEY AT
EVERY POINT AND REJECTED THE
REMSEN BOARD Q1AEvERY ESSEN
TIAL sPECIFICA1
THEY FOUND THAT BENZoATE
Is UNFIT FOR USE, IN ANY PRO-
PORTION WHATEVER, IN FOOD,
AND THE PRUSSIAN AUTHORITIES
FORBADE 1T.
If the cabal against enforcement of
he pure food law can put over such
thing as that, while Wiley is still on
he job and fighting as hard as he
Knows how, what sort of diet may
We expect if the conspiracy against him
succeeds in driving him from the serv-
ce?
One more word about Attorney Gen.
raj Wickersham, whose finding against
Wiley is presumed to lend the respect
Lbility of legal accuracy.
More than year ago evidence was
deposited with the Attorney General
howing the guilt of certain people
onnected with the Guggenheim Alaska
indicate. in robbing the Government