The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-03
WORSHIPPINC AT
 DOLLAR SHRINE
DIR. HARVEY w. WILEY THUS AT HACKS G. O. P. ON DEMO-
 CRATIC STUMP.
DEFENDS PURE FOOD LAW
Declares Worst Elements of CoIllmer. cialisnl Have Been Arrayed Against
 This SaIutary Statute

| Terre Haute, Ind, Oct. 3-Dr liar ] vey W. Wiley, former chief of the fed l eral bureau of chemistry and govern
 ment pure food expert, made his de- 1 but as a Democratic campaign speak | CT here last night. His speech was 1 devoted largely to an attack upon Col
 onel Roosevelt, who. he said, was
 falsely claiming credit for the passage
 of the pure food and drug act. He | announced he would support Wilson | and Marshall.
 l Read the high sounding mora1ities 1 of the Progressive platform said the 1 doctor, f-and compare them with the 1 actual performances of it's master 1 builder. They don't seem to consist. l cannot conceive Of any more wick l ed and -bfeaking performance. A l beneficient 1aw-passed in good faith l by Congress-was mercilessIy evisce- rated and the disembowled corpse was turned over to the secretary of agri- 1 of agriculture, inspired by his trusties in crime, Solicitor McCabe and Asso- with the avidity of feasting buzzards, and soon only the whitening bones of 1 the poor food law remained as mute witnesses of it's existence.''
 Declaring that he had remained loyal to the Republican party for many years in spite of his conviction that it was yearly becoming the wor- shipper at the shrine of the dollar and less mindful of honesty in business
 and the public health and welfare
 pr. Wiley said: s'I now believe that the Republican party, as at present
 constituted, is so completely subJugat-
 ed by the dollar, so permeated by the
 can5er of big business as its only god,
 that only disastrous defeat can ever
 res tore it to health.
 "Ip my own case the chief cause of
 breaking away from my lifelong polit-
 attitude of two Republican administra-
 tions, viz, those of Roosevelt and
 Taft, to the Food and Drugs Act
 'Arrayed against this salutary stat
 ute had been formed the very worst
 elements of commercialism that this
 or any other country could produce. Debassers and misbranders of foods
 and drugs, seeking to poison the foods that keep us well and debase the drugs that are given when i'll, for yearss had succeeded in blocking 1egis- 1ation.
 standing together were those drug ging our foods to preserve them from decay and coloring them with poison ous dyes to make them seem fresh, foods and drugs to keep up their weight and volume and deceive and threaten the purchaser, those who, with cheap alcohol, simulated the old and fragrant products of the vineyard and distilling. who made beer of cheap sugars and wine of coal tar dyes, tan preyed on the inaginations of the 1aymen and sold them worthless and harmful remedies.
 Full -bellied and s1eek-faced lobby ists filled the hotels of Washington and used the columns of our news: papers, eminent professors in our col 1eges and universities were brought to Washin gton to tell the committees of Congress that all these disreputable practices were harmless and required by the exigencies of trade.
 During all this time no President of the United States and cabinet officer ever said a favoring word for the enactment of this law-except on one or two occasions in a most per- functory way. MT. Roosevelt, in one of his messages alluded to the mat ter in a short paragraph without ac- centuation. The secretary of agricu1- 1 ture, on few occasions in his recom- mendations to the President, called at 1 tention to the agitation going on. But the bureau of animal industry of the | department of agriculture and the 1 health department of the city of Washington were active in their op- position to the measure, fearing | some infringement of their own activ- 1 tiles.
 ttIn spite of this Indifference, how ever strong support, as we'll as oppo- | istion, developed in the Congress of 1 the United States. In the last years l Of the battle, Hepburn, Mann and | Richardson in the House, and Mo l Cumber and Hepburn in the Senate, fought tenaciously and progressively, | and won. In the autumn of 1904 Sen ming chance was at hand, asked Pres ident Roosevelt to recommend the pa ssage of the act in his message.
 sHThe President replied that it was of so little consequence that it wasn't worth mentioning"