The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-04
He Says Taft and T. R. Are Sol-
 diers of Fraud.
ENEMIES OF PURE FOOD LAW
Famous Chemist Believes the Health of the Nation Demands Election of the Democratic
 Ticket.
By HARVEY w. WILEY. (Former Chief Chemist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture)

My appeal is chiefly to those who.
 like myself, have been lifelong Repub-
 icans 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 the political platforms
 are mainly sound and all promise eff
 fort in behalf of the whole people. My
 choice is not based on platform. It
 was determined by my impressions of
 the real attitude of the candidates re-
 specting the public welfare. We are
 creatures of heredity and environ
 ment In our attitude towards great
 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 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 ex
 pected if either of them resume his
 former seat on March 4, 1913. MT.
 Roosevelt by reasonsof his attitude to-
 wards the food and drug act aban-
 doned 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 sub
 stances, viz., benzoic compounds, sul-
 phurous compounds and sulphate of
 copper (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 mot contemplated by the law. and ,di-. rected that these predatory interests /, might continue their attacks onss the health of the people until this board, unknown to the law, should decide otherwise.
 Can we safely trust the campaign
  cannot believe that to be the proper course. MT. Taft inherited this ex- .ceedingly bad condition of affairs from his predecessor and has not only continued this illegal board un- der whose patroryeee adulterators are still poisoning thA people, but he did worse. In the matter of the adultera- tion of distilled beverages in which Roosevelt upheld the legally consti- tuted authorities, MT. Taft reversed that policy and threw the mighty weight of the executive of1ce to the support of the worst lot of adultera- tors that ever disgraced . country.
 Mr. Wilson and MT. Marshall by their strenuous efforts in behalf of the food laws of their respective states, have given . positive promise to end such . threatenfng 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 brought about these present unbeara- b1e conditions. ton and environment are free from bias in favor of predatory interests and are inspired by true patriotic zeal In behalf of public welfare.
 support the Democratic nominees In full knowledge that many of the p10mfnent Democrats in congress have 1 been in full sympathy with the paraly- sis of the food law in behalf of the | lnholy dollar. But when the Demo cratic president and president | end the aid of their powerful sympa thy in behalf of the public health | hose of their own party not in sym ,athy with them will be robbed of | heir power for evil. If Roosevelt or Taft be chosen the soldiers of fraud | md adulteration will be impregnably for another four years and sulphftes and adulterated beveridges will have a new ease of life.
 I believe also that President Wilson will renovate the department of agri- reeking, as it has been for he past twelve years, with scandals md favoritism. He will see to it that he bureau of animal industry will protect the public health instead of he efforts of the packers to sell dis ,ased meats under the deceptive phrase "U. s. Inspected and Passed" Under President Wilson no more Pin hots will be kicked out of the service, 10 more unspeakable McCabes will ex- 'rcise dictatorial powers. There will ,e no more cotton leaks and jungle .trocities, no more Everglade swim Hes. Buccaneering, boasting and 'uncombe will give place to sane ef- orts for the promotion of real agri- ulture and the public health.
 Under Wilson the department of Ericulture will be restored to speak