The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-02
I.lIiiIIi DR.. Wiley
IS FOR WILSON
He Says Taft aRd.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 CT Agricultural
My appeal IS chiefly to those Wno'
like myself, have been lifelong Repuo-
-licans. believe that no kind OF an
administration is going to ruin tne
country. | have high personal re-
gard for each one of the candidates Tor
president and vice-presdeent on an
the tickets. All the political platforms
are mainly sound and all promise ei-
fort in behalf of the whole people. MY
choice is not based on platform. Il
was determined by my impressions Oh
the real attitude of the candidates re-
specting the public welfare. we are
creatures of heredity and environ
ment. In our attitude towards grea'
public questions we are almost alo0-
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 Deen
tried tn the presidential chair and we
know by experience what may be eH
pected if either of them resume MS
former seat on March 4, 1913. MT.
Roosevelt by reason Of his attitude To-
wards the food and drug act aoan-
doned the consumers of the country
to the rapaeity of few mercenary
manufacturers. Under authority OF
congress / had carried. on extensive
experiments with my so-called poison
squad and found that certain SUD
stances, viz, benzoic compounds, sui
phurous compounds and sulphate OF
copper (blue stone), were injurious to
health
The law conferred upon ne, as CHEZ
of the bureau Of chemistry, the duty
of acting as 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 ebrogated the plain pro-
visions Of the law, appointed board
not contemplated by the law, and d.
-ected that these predatory interests
might continue their attacks on the
health of the people until this board,
unknown to the law, should decide
otherwise.
Can we safely trust the campaign
for public health to MI. Roosevelt?
cannot believe that to be the proper
course. MT. Taft inherited this eS-
ceedingly bad condition Of affairs
from his predecessor and has not
only continued this illegal board un-
der whose patronage adulterators are
still poisoning the people, but he did
worse. in the matter OF the adultera-
ton Of distilled beverages in which.
Roosevelt upheld the legally consd-
tuted authorities, Mr.. Taft reversed
that policy and threw the mighty
weight of the executive Office to the
support Of the worst lot Of adultera-
tors that ever disgraced a country.
MI. Wilson and Mr.. Marshall by
their strenuous eEortsS in behalf Of the
food laws of their respective states,
have given positive promise to end
such a threatening 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-
bic conditions.
Wilson and Marshall by their educar
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. fun knowledge that many of the
prominent Democrats in congress have
been in full sympathy with. the paraly-
sis of the food law In behalf of the
unho1y dollar. But when the Demo
cratic president and yice-president
lend the aid Of their powerful sympa-
thy tn behalf Of. the public health
those of.thelr own party not in SYM
oathy with them will be robbed Of
their power for evil. If Roosevelt or
TAFT be chosen the soldiers of fraud
and adnlterafion will be tmpregnably
snrenched for another four years and
oensoates, sulphites and adulterated
alcoholic beveridges will have new
lease Of life.
| believe also that President Wilson
will reuovate the department Of agri-
culture, reekins, as it has been for
the past twelve years, with scandals
and iavoritism. He will see to 1t that
the bureau of animal industry will
protect the public health instead of
the efforts Of the packers to sell dis
eased meats under the deceptive
phrase u. S. Inspected and Passed"
Under President Wilson no more Pin
chots will be kicked. out Of the service,
no more uaspeakaole McCabes will ex-
esGse dic:atorial powers. There will
be no more cotton leaks and jungle
atrocities. no more Ererglade swim
dies. Buccaneering, boasting and
buncombc will give place to sane ef-
forts for the promotion of real agri-
culture and the public health.
1-rlor NE!lccr tho 5aDorfneot ~