The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
DIR. WILEY STAYS :.
ADMINISTRATION 0FBOTH
Ia t and Roosevelt On Pure Food
Question.
He CLAIMS They Helped to Poison
the People.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, former chief
OF the federal bureau of chemistry
md government pure food ex-
pert, made his debut as a Demo-
cratic campaign speaker here to-
night. His speech was devoted
largely to an attack upon Colonel
Roosevelt, who, he said, was falls
ly claiming credit for the passage of
the pure food and drug act, he an
nonnced he will support Wilson and
Marshall
Read the Understanding moral
les OF the Progressive platform, :
aid 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 per-
Torrance. A benefcent law pass
ed In good faith by congress was
mereilessly eviscerated and the dis.
emboweled corpse was turned over
to the secretary of agriculture for
dissection. The secretary Of agricul-
ture, inspired by his TRUSTEES in
crime, Solicitor McCabe and As
sociate Dunlap attacked the carcass
with the aSidity OF fasting buzzards
and soon only the whitening bones
of the pure food law remained as
mute witnesses of its existence. :
Declaring that he had remained
loyal to the Republican party for
many years In spit Of his convc-
ton that 1t was yearly becoming
a worshiper at the shrine of the dol
lar and less mindful Of honesty in
business and the public health .ond
welfare" DR.. Wiley said. II now
believe that the Republican party, as
at present constituted, is so COM
pletely subjugated by. the dollar, so
permeated by the eanker OF big bust
ness as It's only god, that only disas-
trous defeat can ever restore it to
health.
In my own case the chief cause of
breaking away from my lifelong po-
litical Affiliations Is directly due to
the attitude of two Republican ad-
ministrations, viz: those of Roose-
Welt and Taft, toward the pure food
and drugs act.
"Arrayed against this salutaryI
statute had been formed the very
worst element of commercialism
that this or any other country could
produce. Debasers and misbrand-
ers Of foods and drugs seeking to
poison the foods that keep us we'll
and dnha ca tha drn0u that ava 0iyon
ns when i'll, for years had succeeded
in blocking legislation. Standing to-
gether were those drugging our
foods to preserve 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, stimulated the
old and fragrant products of theI
vineyard and its distilling who make
beer OF cheap sugars and wine of Goa
tar dyes, tanin and saccharin, and
those who prayed on the magma
tions of the laymen and sold them
worthless and harmful remedies
Full1bellied and sleek-faced lobby
lists filed the hotels of Washington
and used the columns Of our news
papers. Eminent professors in curl
colleges and universities were
brought to Washington to tell the
committees OF congress that all these
disreputable practices were. harmless
and required by the exigences of
trade
During all this time no president
OF the United States and no cabinetl
officer ever said fayoring word for
the enactment of this law except on
one or two occasions In a most perl
functory way
1t is In this manner that DR.. Wiley
goes on through long speech and
holds Taft and Roosevelt RESPONSE
BILE for these conditions and accuses,
them both OF being accessory to the
crime of poisoning all classes of thel
people Of the United States