Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-09

organization with headquarters iI
New York. The NATIONAL League ant
THE United States Brewers associ
alton are the chief contestants so fal
appearing at the hearings.
1t is charged that the public is
being deceived in thinking that when
it buys beer it is getting the product
of barley, malt and hops, and that
rice, starch, corn, brewers sugar
chemical preservatives, and other un.
suspected ingredients really go into
the connection that passes for beer
In short, it is charged that the word
beer seen on a bottle these days
means nothing to the consumer he
cause he may be getting beer, al
he may be getting something that :,
hardly a distant cousin to beer.
The pure food committees pape
states IF the brewing. industry, wit
tits enormous financial Interests ]
hind it, can escape the rigid O. for,
ment Of the pure food law VIII g
other concerns Sare not exentLt from
its provisions, then we haze class
Legislation. The League does not as
scrt that other grains used in beer
are injurious to health, but it does
maintain that prescrvuli>c and chem
icals should not be used because they
are injurious.
'.The labels on all malt liquors
should tell the truth, that they may
be in accord with he rigid enforce
mcnt OF the food and drugs act"
"G5, OOO, 900 a year is. the amount OF
revenue the government derives from
beer" said Lewis Schram, chairman
OF the advisory committee for the
Brewers association. He, maintain
ed that the ingredients of beer are
potable water, matted and unmalted
cereals, hops, yeast, and certain
sugars"
1t was admitted that rice, corn,
brewers sugar and molasses are used
ito some extent in making beer.
The carbonating of beer was also ad'
! mitted. Through Mr.. Schram, the
brewers opposed labelling, and held
that it was unnecessary.
! President Taft, in his recent expla-
nation to the Senate of the Controlf.
err bay jugglery, leads the reader Ito
believe that the representatives of the
gan.Guggenheims positively dc
not obtain transportation monopoly
of the Alaskan coal lands, by reason
OF the amazing secret order which ne
issued, and the existence Of which
seems to have been known only itc
Promoter Ryan.
Both Theodore Roosevelt and Git
ford Pinchot declare positively thai
the Ryan group, to all practical ends
do receive such monopoly.
. The investigation of the Controller
bay jugglery has not been abandon
ed as result of the Taft statement
to the Senate, but on the other hand
it has augmented the probe on the
part of the House investigating com
mittee, the members of which body
| now realize that they must not only
combat trickery on the part Of the
| Wall street spectators, who are at
tempting to gain control of the
Alaska coal fields, but that they must
also combat the president of the Uni
ed States. who is cooperating with
and aiding the Ryan land grabbers
with. all the power of his great office
| Hardly less amazing than the presi'
dents action in granting the surren'
der of the lands, in the first place,
lis his attempt now to shift the re
;ponsibility onto the shoulders OF
Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Pin
chot. He explains how these two
men, when theZ were in office, ex-
cluded from entry some $4,000 acres
near Cordova bay, and permitted the
Guggenheim syndicate to make that
bay terminal for one of It's rail-
roads. He does not mention, how
ever, that the circumstances under
which this grant was made. were en-
tirely different, and that both Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Pinchot refused
to sign the necessary papers until
| it was expressly stipulated that the
grant did not SO dispose of the har-
Dor facilities there that the syndicate
would have a monopoly.
The raid upon Alaska by the Grg-
genheims was just beginning, and nc
one except themselves had any init
nation that it was their purpo2e III
.imately to gain complete control !of
he country. Their movements had
lot disclosed any such intention, and
President Roosevelt only copsidered,
as any one in his place would have
done, that the syndicate was pushing
a legitimate develO.. ement. But even
then he was cautious. and his actions
were in the broad liehti Of day, as
contrastcd with the Taft secret order,
mysteriously issued when no Eody ex
cept the syndicate MANAGERS kne"
bout it.
President Taft, in his message, de
votes less space to an attempt to
Justify his action on tie ground that
it was right, than he does to the ar
cument that he had only done what
Others had done. Thus he takes the
position, inferentially at least. that
wrong is all right and proper as long
as there is precedent for it.
But the friends Ct Roosevelt and
Pinchot are not willing to allow the
president to shift the blame onto
them. and reports in Washington are