Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-07-21

an ownership cable of kind connecting them with
one of the over-the-sea powers.
AS Mr.. Boutell put 1t: 1T 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 1t would not be an available asset,
and 90 he hoped that dependence would continue"
The memory of this speech dwells in congress.
It was Intentionally light, but 1t drove home the
lesson that f~railties of a certain kind are not
confined to members of any political party.
When in the future an American citizen dies as
the result Of eating adulterated food that has been
an article entering into interstate mmerce a
coroner's Jury will be justified In bringing in a
verdict Of suicide. In order not to be too hard on
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.
BILE.
The p%ure-food bill which passed Congress is
a strong measure. Proir to its passage 1t was
the cause of more misunderstanding, more sus-
picions and of more abuse Of men and measures
than was any other which congress thought 1t
worth while to consider.
Representative James R. Mann of Chicago
piloted the bill through the house. He was ex-
FOUNDER and exhorter, and during the greater part
of four days he held the interest of the seasoned
members as a school teacher holds the interest Of
wide-open-eyed children to whom tales of a hither-
to unknown are told-and 1t was tales OF the
0hhhO"h IbRt HhAs h1Ah lOlu IL lhO
Washington-gathered children of a larger growth.
For amazement and curiosity, for interest and
Indignation there was no 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 a 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 was relieved by a quip,
but as a 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 and cake-bakers. 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 time-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