The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-13
Make Connecticut
 Keep Her Oysters
Then She'll Stop Polluting
 Her Waters.
Rartford courant, Feb. 12.)

Hartford Courant, Feb 12)
 pr. Harvey w. Wiley. chief chemist Of the United States department of agriculture, promoter and enforcer of the pure food and drugs act, handed out some of the courage of his con- victions to a crowded and enthusias- Hic audience at the Scenic Theatre, yes terday afternoon In the course of his talk, which was concerning pure food, he landed heavily on the oyster growers of the State and upon the people of the State that they should allow their streams to be polluted
 He told of a hearing on exorbitant express charges before the interstate commerce commission. He found that more than beer sent to the same source All people were not treated alike. He told of the fight for pure not long before we found that there was a moral struggle ahead of us- A mere commercial proposition settled into a fight against wrong: We found mot steaP entered into the question. hWe found that the commercial con of uprightness in the community were indulging in base fraud and did not realize it
 seOnce I addressed a convention of me not to address it because of the hostility. told him that if was EO Inobbed by a good Anr4rican audience of business men. There was dead silence when I arose to speak. asked them if any of them would steal money out of mans pocket and there was no response Then I ask ed if any would charge more for their product than it was worth. They had never looked at it in that light.
 Whether wei or i'll you are inter ested in pure food and drugs. Most manufacturers do not deliberately in irITa h 1 not thinking. When attention was called to injury to health, manufac duce the witnesses.' This was not possible. A man who catches tuber cuIosis from splitting on the street cannot be produced It is difficult to body. Put the human system receives l additional injury. Canada missiles hurt farmers. but you can't produce by their existence. A single dose of | borax uses up energy of the body | which has to get rid of it. The man 1 does not die right off, but 1t does in 1 jury just the same.
 ''The fight continued for years and l the obJecting arguments were ia a. l cious, but the business men were hon. | est. I like honest men It is the l man who stabs in the dark that I hate 1 One man in Terre Haute said his bus | mess would be ruined. But his busi- 1 ness continued. He invited me to | his factory. My man went and made | similar goods, but without the injur- | ious elements. They went out on l the road and were successful. Now he uses none of the injurious ele- 1 ments and feels ashamed to think that | he ever used preservatfves. His prem | ises had been false resulting in false | logic.
 To-day the great manufacturers have stopped the use of bad ingredi- 1 ents and use cleanliness and steriliza- ] tion instead Even the universities ] came to the hep of the manufactur- |
 -AI- sryn,-e cit kircy I,10l |, money call too strongly. The key note of the pure food law was to pro | tect the consumers and it has so been | construed by the courts. One judge l said that there were learned au+ hori- | ties on both sides, hut he directed the | jury to consider the purpose of the | act.
 'eThe last week there was trial pre- pairing at Washington on the contam- tnation of oysters. It concerns Con necticut- Professors of universities ] were our opponents. But the oyster l men got cold feet and we did not | have chance to exploit the unfVersi- | Sies again; Once rotten eggs were in dispute. There are two kinds of fed eraI judges, those who ought to be | recalled and those who ought not. As | to these eggs, professors said these | sggs were to be mixed with cake and | then they wouldn't be bad any more. The judge was human and he decided against the eggs. Dealing in rotten eggs is immoral. The way to tell a bad egg is to break it gently.
 If a farmer is careless about send ing eggs he is immoral The ner- chant is immoral if he examines them and lets them pass. The great pack CTS are now candIing eggs well and we are getting good cold storage eggs. When a business man becomes hon. est his business improves. The com mercial point of view is in support of Dur propaganda. The campaign is not ended. We want some amendments to khe law.
 You oystermen Of Connecticut are coming to Washington with unethical principles Don't destroy our busi- hess. It is not our fault that the waters are polluted you say. Your logic is bad. Every manufacturer who lets poison enter the stream com mits an immoral act. It is as inn portant to get rid of sewage as it is To get water. Tell the oystermen, You shall not ship your oysters out pf the state That is what we pro pose to do. Let Connecticut enjoy her own oysters. Then she will clean a1D her streams. do not want Efng,e bad oyster to get outside of Connecticut, and they will not if tan prevent them. We have evidence