The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-04
DIR. wILEY's REASONS
FOR BEING A DEMOCRAT


II every voter in the country would
read the following speech. delivered
by DR.. Harvey w. Wiley at Terre
Haute the other day, there would be
small doubt of the result of the No
vember election. Dr. Wiley's speech
was devoted largely to an attack
upon Col. Roosevelt, who. he said, was
falsely claiming credit for the pas
sage of the pure food and drug acts.
He announced he would support Will
son and Marshall
Read the high-sounding moralities
of the progressive platform" said the
doctor, and compare them with the
actual performances OF its master
builder. They don't seem to consist.
/ cannot conceive Of any more wicked
and law breaking performance. A
beneficient law, passed in good faith
by Congress, was mercilessly eviscer
ared and the disemboweled corpse was
turned over to the secretary of agri-
culture for dissection. The secretary
of agriculture, inspired by his TRUSTEES
In crime, Solicitor McCabe and Asso-
ciate Dunlap. attacked the carcass
with the avidity of fasting buzZards,
and soon only the whitened bones of
the poor food law remained as mute
witnesses of it's existence"
Dollar Rules Republicans
Declaring that he had remained
loyal to the republican party for many
years in spite of his conviction that it
was yearly becoming !. wOrshipper at
the shrine OF the dollar and less mind
full of honesty in business and the
public health and welfare" Dr.. Wiley
said: "I now believe that the republi-
can party, as at present constituted, is
so completely subjugated by the dol
lar, so permeated by the canker of
Big Business as it's only god, that only
disastrous defeat can ever restore it
to health.
TN my own case the chief cause OF
breaking away from my lifelong polit-
zeal affiliations is directly due to the
attitude of two republican admins
trations, 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.
Debasers and misbranders of foods and
drugs. seeking to poison the foods
that keep us well and debase the drugs
that are given us when i'll, for years
Standing together were those drug
ging our foods to preserve them from
decay and coloring them with poison
Gus dyes to make them seem fresh,
those mixing cheap substitutes with
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 vine
yard and It's distilling, who made beer
OF cheap sugars and wine of coal tar
dyes. tannin and saccharin, and those
who preyed on the imaginations of
the laymen and sold them worthless
and harmful remedies. Full-bellied
and sleek-faced lobbyists filled the no.
tells OF Washington and used the col
umns of our newspapers, eminent pro-
fessors in our colleges and universe
ties were brought to Washington tC
tell the committees of Congress that
all these disreputable practices were
harmless and required by the exigen-
cies OF trade.
DR.. Wiley spoke of difficulties he
had encountered in enforcing the law
of the appointment of Associate Chem
list Dunlap and "the growth of Solicit
tor McCabe's power" Finally, he said
to keep out of the courts the oppon-
ents of the law appealed to Secretary
Wilson and President Roosevelt
shortly thereafter" he continued
II was asked by the secretary of ag-
rlcultura to go with him to the pres
fdent's office. Solicitor McCabe and
Associate Chemist Dunlap were also
of the party. There we met Mr.. Cur
tice of Rochester, N. Y; Mr.. Grovernor
representing Williams Brothers of De-
tI,a4
time a member of the House of Rep
resentatives, appearing in the interest
OF Sherman Brothers of Oneida, n. Y
They had spent the previous evening
with the president showing him how
Wiley was running republican bust
ness"
BenzOate of Soda
This particular republican business
consisted of putting benzoate of soda
and saccharin into human foods. The
president stated the object of the
meeting and summarized the CONVEX
sation these business men had held
with him the night before. He then
turned to the secretary of agriculture
and said. Mr.. Wilson do you think
the addition of benzoate of soda in
foods Is injurious? The secretary an
swered. Yes. Then, turning to me
he said. DR.. Wiley, do you think the
use OF benzoate of soda in foods is in
JuniousT l answer, Il do not think,
know; have tried 1t on healthy young
men and 1t made them ILL The same
question was asked of Solicitor Nc
Cabe and Associate Dunlap. They both
answered in the affirmative.
Then turning to the republican
representatives of business and strik-