The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-03
Begins Services as Campaign
Speaker for Democrats
at Terre Haute.
AssA1Ls REPUBLICANS
Explains Administrations Of
Taft and Roosevelt as Rea-
sons He Quit G.. o. P.
Associated Press Dispatch.

ASSOclaLeu rTebS DlSpdtCH.
Terre Haute, Ind, Oct, 2.-Dr,
Harvey w. Wiley. former chief Of the
Federal Bureau of Chemistry anu
government pure food expert, made
his debut as a Democratic campaign
speaker here tonight. His speech
was devoted largely to an attack up
on Col. Roosevelt who, he said. was
falsely claiming credit for the pass
age of the pure food and drug act.
He announced he would support Will
son and Marshall.
"Read the high-sounding morali-
ties Of the Progressive platform,
said the doctor, land compare them
with the actual performances of its
master builder. They don't seem to
consist. | cannot conceive of any
more wicked and law-brcaking per-
formance. A beHeficient law-passed
in good faith by Congress-was mer-
cilessly evinscerated and the tdis-
emboweled corpse was turned over to
the Secretary of Agriculture for dis
section. The Secretary of Agricul-
ture, 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 whitening bones
of the poor food law remained as
mute witnesses of It's existence"
Subiugated Bv the Dollar.
Declaring that, he had remained
loyal to the Republican party, for
many years in spite of his conviction
that 1t was yearly becoming a wor-
shipper at the shrine of the dollar and
less mindful of honesty In business
and the public health and welfare"
DIR. Wiley said: II now believe that
the Republican party, as at present
constituted. is so completely subju-
gated by the dollar, SO permeated by
the canker of big business as its only
god, that only disastrous defeat can
ever restore Ut to health.
'1n my own case the chief cause
of breaking away from my lifelong
political affiliations is directly due to
the attitude of two Republican ad-
ministrations, viz, those of Roose-
welt and Taft, to the Food and Drugs
Act.
"Arrayed against this salutary
statute 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 de-
base the drugs that are given us
when i'll, for years had succeeded In
blocking legislation. Standing to-
gether were those drugging our
foods to preserve them from decay
and coloring them with poisonous
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, stimulated the old and fra
grant products of the vineyard and
its distilling, who made beer OF
cheap sugars and wine of coal tar
dyes, tannin and saccharin, and
those who preycd on the imaginations
of the laymen and sold them worth
less and harmful remedies, Bull
bellied and sleek-faced lobbyists
filled the hotels of Washington and
used the columns of our newspapers,
eminent professors in our colleges
and universities were brought to
Washington to tell the committees Of
Congress that all these disreputable
practices wire harmless and required
by the exige1cies of trade.
Cabinet Members Silent.
During all this time no president
of the United States and no cabinet
officer ever said favoring word for
the enactment of this law except on
one or two occasions in most per
functory way. Mr.. Roosevelt, In one
Of his messages. alluded to the mat
ter In a short paragraph without ac-
centuation. The Secretary OF Agri-
culture, on few occasions In his
recommendations to the President,
called attention to the agitation go
ing on. But the Bureau of Animal
Industry Of the Department Of Agri-
culture and the Health Department
of the City OF washington were ac-
tive in their opposition to the meas
urc. fearing some infringement on
their own activities.
''In spite Of this indifference, how
ever, strong support, as well as op-
position, developed In the Congress-
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