Holbrook argus., 1912-10-15
WHY DR. WILEY IS FOR WILSON
He Says Taft and T. R. Are Sol- i 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. (Fo9mer Chief Chemist of the U. 8.
 Department of Agriculture.)


 (To1mer Chief Chemist of the U. s.
 Department of Agriculture.)
 My appeal is chiefly to those who, like myself, have been lifelong Repup- licans. 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 f, 1913. MT. Roosevelt by reason of his attitude to- wards the food and drug act aban- doned the consumers of the country to the rapacity of a few mercenary manufacturers. Under authority of congress I 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 board not contemplated by the law, and d. rected 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 MT. Roosevelt7 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 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 consti- tuted authorities, MT. 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 country.
 MT. 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 a threatening state of affairs. They will support to the utmost the oficia1s 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- ble conditions.
 Wilson and Marshall by their educa- ton and environment are free from '1ias in favor of predatory interests and are inspired bS true patriotic zeal in behalf of public welfare.
 :; I support the Democratic nominees D full 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 unholy dollar. But when the Demo cratic president and vice-president lend the aid of their powerful sympa- thy in behalf of the public health those of their own party not in sym pathy with them will be robbed ol their power for evil. If Roosevelt or Taft be chosen the soldiers of fraud and adulteration will be impregnably entrenched for another four years and benzoates, sulphites and adulterated alcoholic. beveridges will, have a new lease Of life.
 believe also that President Wilson will renovate the department of agri- culture, reeking, as 1t has been for the past twelve years, with scandals and favoritism. 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 unspeakable McCabes will ex-