The Daily Missoulian., 1912-10-13
For Sale by
JAMES THUESON
513 n. Higgins Ave.

admiration for the public service
which DIR. Wiley has done (perfect
tense). But even the doctors friends
know him to be this sort of man
that every fight with him is more
important than the preceding fight
that's what makes him such a splen-
did fighter. But this very quality
warps his judgment of men-particu-
larly when the doctor mods. He won
the whisky fight but afterWard lost
his fight against benzoate of soda
and having lost, he will never forgive
Theodore Roosevelt, who appointed
the Remsen board.
/ "a In his political recital of this con-
troversy Dr. Wiley is ingenuous-if L
may judge from the report the doctor
made to me Immediately after the
Injecting in President Roosevelt's Of
flee, attended by Secretary Wilson,
Congressman Sherman, two catsup
manufacturers and DIR. Wiley's arch
enemies. McCabe and Dunlap. The
president asked DIR. Wiley if the use
of benzoate of soda in food was in
furious to health, and when the chief
of the bureau of chemistry replied in
| the affirmative, Mr. Roosevelt, turn
| ing to the self seeking manufacturers
and striking the table a ringing blow
with his fist, exclaimed, Gentlemen,
if, this drug is injurious, you shall not
/ put it in food
Here DIR. Wiley's report made TO
me at the time and his very recent
political speech part company. AS
he recounted the incident lin the
shadow of the crime" he said that
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| his three associates left the executive
| offices and got into the official car
riage, Secretary Wilson opined that
the way to settle the rnatter-the mat
ter already settled-Was to refer it to
a commission of experts. In that
| hour DR.. Wiley put the blame for a
commission entirely on the shoulders
of Secretary Wilson. 1t was the sec
| retary who made the suggestion to the
| president, and Mr.. Roosevelt-here |
| speak from personal knowledge
! thinking in this way to quiet the
! bowling of certain food manufactur-
ers, reluctantly agreed to the pro-
| posal. ! know for a fact that he eX-
| pected the commission to sustain DR..
/ Wiley. ! know he was disappointed
| in the decision. The trouble was that
/ the details We're left to Secretary Will
son, a politician first, last and all the
| time. l hold no brief for the Rem
/ sen board, Which decided the benzoate
/ of soda question against DR. Wiley.
| / do know, however, that President
Roosevelt endeavored to obtain a
| board composed of acknowledged sci
/ entific experts: that he wrote to the
| leading college presidents of the coun-
try and from their recommendations
| determined the personnel of the board
and that from these scientists of all
| men, he looked for fair, impartial
verdict.
DR., Wiley is now electioneering in
behalf of the democratic ticket. The
doctor knows that the house of repre-
sentatiNes is in control of the demo :
/ cratic party, The doctor also knows
/ by this time, that at the last session
of congress, when the agricultural APP
preparation bill was considered in the
house, Il motion was made the effect
of which was to strike out the appro-
priation for the Remsen board Does
the good doctor forget that the demo
Gratis saved the obnoxious board for
Itfuture usefulness'--or ito prey upon
the people,"
Even Homer mods