The Brinkley argus., 1912-10-25
Re Saws Taft ard T. q. Ere Scl-
 ciers of Fraud.
r:..--...:.--s cF fu.s FOOD LAW
Famous Chemist Eeliev-s the heaitn
 of the Nation Demands Election i of the Democratic ! Ticket.
cy HARVEY w. WILEY. f-ormer Chief Chemist of the U. 9. Department of Agriculture.)

My appeal is chiefly to those who, like myself have been lifelong Repub- licans. I believe that no kind of an administration Is going to ruin the country. I have a high personal re- gard for each one of the candidates for president and vice-presideent on all the tickets. All tie olitical platforms are mainly sound and all promise ef- fort in behalf of the who.e people. My choice is not based on platform. It vas determined by my impressions or tue real attitude of the candidates re- specting the pub ic welfare. We are creatures of heredity and environ ment. In our attitude towards grent public questions we are almost alto gether creatures of environment
 What two men are by environment least likely to be swayed by special interests and most Ike to be guided by devotion to public welfare? TWO Of the candidates have already been tried in the presidential chair and we know by experience what may be ex pected if either of them resume his former seat on March 4, 1913. MT. Roosevelt by reason of his attitude to- wards the food and drug act aban- doned the consumers of the country to the raracity of a few mercenafy manufacturers Under authority of congress had carried on extensive experiments with my so-called poison squad and found that certain sub stances, viz. benzoic compounds, sul. ,.hurous compounds and sulpbate of corner (blue stone), were injurious to health.
 The law conferred upon me, as chief of the bureau of chemistry. the duty of acting as a grand jury and deter. mining whether foods and drugs were adulterated or misbranded. Instead of appealing from my decisions to the courts as the law requires, the users of these poisons appealed to President Roosevelt. He not only listened to them. but he abrogated the plain pro. visions of the law, appointed a board not contemplated by the law, and di- rected that these predatory interests might continue their attacks on the health of the people until this board, unknown to the law. should decide otherwise
 Can we safely trust the campaign for public health to- Mir Roosevelt? I cannot believe that to be the proper course. Mr. Taft inherited this ex- ceedingly bad condition of affairs from his predecessor and has not only continued this illegal board un- der whose patronage adulterators are still poisoning the people, but he did worse. In the matter of the adultera- tion of distilled beverages in which Roosevelt upheld the legally consti- tuted authorities. Mir Taft reversed that policy and threw the mighty weight of the executive office to the support of the worst lot of adultera- tors that ever disgraced . country.
 Mir. Wilson and Mir. Marshall by their strenuous efforts in behalf of the food laws of their respective states. have given a positive promise to end such a threatening state of affairs. They will support to the utmost the officials under the law who are trying to protect the public health and will make short shrift of those who have