The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-03
Wiley HAS JUST
BEGUN HIS FIGHT:
He Intends American People
Shall Have Pure Food
and Drugs
HE HIMSELF LOOKS
PICTURE OF HEALTH
When Those Higher Up"
Tried to Muzzle Chief Chem
list, He Resigns So He
Can Speak Out

II have 1ust begun the tight against
the food and drug adulteration In the
tngton Wiley. former chief chemist Of
the bureau % agriculture In Washing
ton, land / arm confident that before
tho night Is ended the American ctti-
rem will have -ure food when ne sits
down to eat and pure drugs when he
becomes Ill., DR.. Wiley 10 In Rich
m0nd to lecture at Richmond College
under the provision OF the Thomas
Lecture Endowment. Last night he
leetured on The Fight for the Re-
preston of Food and Drug Adultera-
ton" and tonight he will lecture on
.-rhs Public Health uuE Greatest
Asset"
In appearance DIR. Wiley looks as
u thu millennium of the pure food and
drug propaganda had come about. AL
though he talks great deal OF his
experience In regard to the products
u cold storage that have been over
looked In their chilly abodes for years
and years, he does not look as II any
fhlne except the VERY freshest and
sweetest had ever been Fletcherized
BY his molars. And yet he talks most
knowingly. on the subject
Refuses to BE Sl1enced.
II did not leave the Department
Of Agriculture because OF friction and
annoyance" he continued after his
4 6rRt martial and militant. declaration,
hut because orders were issued thai
rather impaired my usefulness In that
department. was ordered not to
speak against certain things approx
cd by the Remsen. board land II
= 10 be remembered that the Remsen
board and the chief chemist were not
on the most harmonious terms). and
certain Of those things l had opinions
therefore, when the orders came
/ decided that my sphere Of useful
neas would be enlarged IL had free
r0in 10 speak against what knew
I Waa hArmful 80 tho American people
without ~ Or hfndrance and 30 re-
Aligned. feel that J will be able %
carry On the work more successfully
ana with more speed than II l were
hAmpersd by orders from those
higher up
Dr. Wiley has accepted the contrib
u&inx edftorship OF the Good House,
accepting Magazine. between the covers
OF which he will fight the battle
AGAINST adulteration and misbrand-
jfax, and will also take up the cudgels
from the lecture platform. Certain 1t
- that he will gain the ear of the
public with ease from the lecture
platform. TOR his effort last night In
the chapel OF Richmond College was
most interesting.
Business Man Not So bad.
Or. Wiley is Of the opinion that
Il the American business man Is not
nearly so bad as he liz painted mo-
rally. but will. II shown that he Is
stealing nlbney from the consumer
49, ATT . fyvy a nd
(. Foods, do all he can do to remedy
the evil In fact. DIR. Wiley looks with
Z good deal Of tolerance and charity
On his fellow man. and says he be-
Neves in giving him chance to right
4 wrong before he will condemn him.
In speaking OF his lecture work
DR.. Wiley said last night that he was
going to show tonight how the Amer
team people might live twice as long
Il they do now. IL they will only let
him have his way about the matter.
y what that way II he would not say
last4 night. but promised that II would
be understood by all. and that 1t re-
CURED the taking OF no patent rnedi-
ctne.
In his lecture last night before .
most interested audience In the Rich
acnd College chapel DIR. Wiley gall
lantiy upheld his Washington repn-
& tAtion. a reconteur Of the first cali
i SsA. Net only did fte divuige Most I'M
t4resting facts IN regard TO the pure
~. but he Interpreted his remarks
with really. humorous Jokes applicable
y u the case In point
Just a. Or. Wiley began to speak q
thunderstorm burst forth. blowing the
u1ftatns Of the chapel about wildly