The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-10-09
WHY DR.. WILEY
IS FOR WILSON
And Marshall in Present
Presidential Race.
AN APPEAL TO REPUBLICANS
Who, Like Himself, May Be
Dissatisfied With ROOSe.
welt or Taft.
EXPOSES THE FOOD "DoPERs"

(By harvey w. wiley, FORMER
Chief Chemist of the U. 5. Depart
ment of Agricultural
My appeal is chiefly to those
who, like myself, have been steady,
lifelong Republicans. believe
that no kind of an administration
is going to ruin the country. |
have a high personal regard for
each one of the candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President on all the
tickets. All the political platforms
are mainly Sound and all promise
effort in behalf of the whole people.
My choice is not based on plat
form. 1t was determined by my
impressions of the real attitude OF
the candidates respecting the public
welfare. We are creatures oe he
redity and environment. In our
attitude towards great public ques-
tions, we are almost altogether
creatures of environment.
What two men are by environ
ment least likely to be swayed by
special interests and most likely 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 expected
if either Of them resumes his form
er seat on March 4, 1913. Mr..
Roosevelt, by reason of his attitude
towards the Food and Drug Act,
abandoned the consumers of the
country to the rapacity of few
mercenary manufacturers. Under
authority of Congress | had carried
on extensive experiments with my
so-called poison squad" and found
that certain substances, viz: ben
zoic compounds, sulphurous COM
pounds and sulphate of copper
(blue stone), were injurious to
health.
The law conferred upon me, as
chief of the bueau of chemistry, the
duty of acting as a grand jury and
determining whether foods and
drugs were adulterated or mis-
branded. 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
provisions of the law, appointed
board not contemplated by the law,
and directed that these predatory
interests might continue their at
tacks on the health of the people
until this board, unknown to the
law. should decide otherwise.
Can we safely trust the cam
paign for public health to Mr..
Roosevelt? l cannot believe that
TO be the proper course. Mr.. Taft
inherited this exceedingly bad con-
dition of affairs from his predeces-
sor and has not only continued this
illegal board under whose patron
age adulterators are still poisoning
the people, but he did worse. In
the matter of the adulteration of
distilled beverages, in which Roose-
welt upheld the legally constituted
authorities, Mr.. Taft reversed that
policy and threw the mighty weight
of the executive Office to the sup
port of the worst lot of adulterators
that ever disgraced a country.
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Marshall by
their strenuous efforts in behalf of
the food laws of their respective
States, have given a positive prom
Use 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 pub
lie health and will make short shift
of those who have brought about
these present unpearable condi-
tons.
Wilson and Marshall, by their
education and environment, are
free from bias in favor of predatory
interests and are inspired by true
patriotic welfare.
support the Democratic nomi-
nees in the full knowledge that
many of the prominent Democrats
in Congress have been in full SYM
patty with the paralysis of the
food law in behalf of the unholy
dollar. But when the Democratic
President and Vice President lend
the aid of their powerful sympathy
in behalf of the public health. those |
of their own party not in sympathy |
with them will be robbed of their
power for evil. II Roosevelt or
Taft be chosen. the soldiers of
fraud and adulteration will be Inn
entrenched for another
four years and benzoates. sulfites
and adulterated alcoholic beverages