The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-22
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The developments incident TO the
recent investigation into the opera
tons of the bureau of chemistry with
its adjuvant activities. involving DR..
Wiley, the head Of the bureau, Is GER
tainly a matter of great Importance
to people at large.
Perhaps DR.. Wiley has been too
particular" and strenuous In his In
depreciation OF the terms OF the food
and drug act, and in the enforcement
of il: but he has, at any rate, been
competent and honest. Although we
may not know just exactly whom the
persons are who are trying TO get him
out Of office, II Is presumably fair TO
suppose that the chaps behind the
movement are the Mammonites who
have been swindling and poisoning
the public with their manufactured
stuffs, and to whom the food and drug
acts are obnoxious.
For such operations, says the
September number OF Current Litera-
ture, ARE a hindrance to large classes
Of men in their efforts to make
money" In a little over three years.
nearly 900 distinct cases have been
presented to the courts, not counting
Implications of the same onense.
Many a sure cure" for cancer has
been nipped by an untimely frost. so
have numerous cures for deafness
Many other miraculous cures Tor
Bright's disease, rheumatism and
tuberculosis have been withdrawn
from the reach of suffering humanity.
There has been q strange preludice
shown aginst black pepper made out
OF ground nutshells and fruitpits,
"nure cider vinegar made of aceuc
acid and citric acid, "olive OIL mace
from cottonseed, and Two pouhu
cans of fruit or vegetables that con
tanned but one pound and three quar-
tiers.
"Dr. Wiley" says Harper's Weekly.
considering the long list OF MS OF
lenses against heretofore lucrative IN
dustries, 'is an awful man, nind-
rance to much profitable manufacture'
On obstacle to trade, and real pug
aboo to the hokey-pokey man, the
Gamer, the preserver. the oisuiier,
the brewer, the candy-maker, the
druggist and the undertaken.
II is high time that the pubic
should be aroused to the terrible rear
ization that there are human beings
among US, who for money and under
the cloak OF business, are willing not
only TO swindle their neighbors py
misbranding their stun, or selling II AT
short weight, but to shamefuly aoui'
terate food and drugs with either inert
or poisonous material. Not only THIS
but willing TO misbrand and adulter-
ate food and medical preparations TOT
infants. as well as for cattle and otner
stock. :,
There Is abundant proof OF all this
I'm the hundreds OF exposures anu
prosecutions which have already taken
Mace through the Investigations OF
the bureau OF chemistry. SUCH cupid
ity as soaking worthless coffee beans
In bichromate OF lead. Is not only
swindling. but is a slow poisoning OF
the consumer OF the same. Manufac-.
turing whisky and patent medicines
ont of wood alcohol, selling packages
~ nork and beans which contain no
nork and innumerable other things,
such as the corn syrup misbranding
which was one of the things exposed
through the wiley Investigation,
these are the offenses against the pub
lie health, until II has gotten so that
this sort OF criminality has EXTENDED
to almost everything which we con
sume in The way OF food and medicine.
Even the infants could not be LEI
alone and infant medicines, soothing
syrups containing cocaine and acetan.
aid. morphine, etc. have peen on me
market. also there are mixtures (dope
nIxturesl containing morphine and
,arga ner cent of alcohol go to 80
Der cent?. These things. Q. course,
have a very deleterious enect upon
tbe Young. and are likelv to increase
the number OF dope hends." criml-
nails and lunatics.
n seems almost incredible that
such conscienceless human beings ea,
lat among ne. They seem TO have no
scruples whatever about nghting
against the enforcement OF any law
designed TO curtaii their nefarious
business" As a matter OF lact, tne
law really deals too lightly with them.
Such people showing an entire ao-