The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-20
WILSON BELIEVES IN DOC WILEY.
Distinguishes rrtwpon Bi,, Business
ard Trusts-TaikS Oh Scientitl"
Phase OF Pure Food.

Sioux City, Iowa, sept. i, - Firm
support for Dr.. HarveJ w. Wiley in
his controversy over the enforcement
of the pure TODD laws s,ooG cut PROM
inently in a speech by Governor, Wood
row Wilson at the Interstate iair to-
day
He drew attention to what he con-
ceived to be the ineffectuality of
boards of experts established under
the administration of President Roose-
velt He used it as an illustration of
his objections to commission or board
of experts to handle either the tariff
or the trust problems.
Governor Wilson voiced for the first
time his objection to the tariff board
idea, declaring it would mean "a post
ponement of tariff legislation
The Pure Food Question.
He turned early in his speech to the
pure food question.
Everybody now suspects" he said,
"and tie suspicion is based upon a
great. many facts that can be estab-
lished by proof that these pure food
laws are not lived up to, that the in
spection is not always what it ought
to be, and that great many things
are permitted to be done which nullify
the pure food laws.
Il suppose that most of you know
that a great controversy arose because
DR.. Wiley, who was in charge of the
pure food administration, objected to
the use OF benzoate of soda in certain
things that were sold to you, particu-
larly in cans for foods. Now very
nice thing occurred. The gentlemen
who wanted to use benzoate of soda
persuaded the president, Mr.. Roose-
velt, that this was scientific ques-
ton AID, therefore, ought to have
board CT chemists to determine it. And
Mr.. Roosevelt picked out some of the
most eminent and. honest chemists in
this country, headed by a personal
friend of mine, the president of Johns
Hopkins university, and submitted to
them this question:
Experts Answers Are Limited.
Z" is benzoate of soda hurtful to the
gestion when taken internally? OBJ
serve that that was the only question
submitted to them and that was ex-
actly the people who wanted to use
benzoate of soda for wrong purposes,
wanted to limit the inquiry to. These
gentlemen had to say that benzoate
of soda in itself was not harmful to
tbn ~ SC
not But they were not asked this
question: Can benzoate of soda be
used to conceal putrifcation? Can it
be used in things that have gone bad
to conceal the fact that they have gone
bad and to induce people to put them
IN their stomachs after they have gone
bad?"
''They were not asked that question,
because if they had been they would
have said:- Yes.
Beware of Experts.
Il want, to warn the people of this
country to beware Of commissions of
experts. l have lived with experts all
of my life and l know that experts
don't see anything except what is un-
der their microscope, under their eye.
They don't even perceive what is un-
der their nose and, an expert feels in
honor bound to confne himself to the
particular question which you have
asked him.
Suppose you wanted to settle the
liquor question by asking body of
experts whether alcohol was poison or
not l believe they would have to tell
you that it isn't
But does that settle the liquor
question, there are great many
things that you can't take into Your
stomach that are not poison that Will
make you crazy"
Big Business and Trusts.
Turning to trusts, the speaker dis-
tinguished between "big business and
trusts. He referred to the success OF
Andrew Carnegie in the steel business,
and declared that when Mr.. Carnegie's
competitors fou2d they could not un-
dersell because he had more brains in
running the business they bought him
out at four or five times the value OF
his property and then by what they
charged afterwards for their products
they made US pay interest or the four
or five times the amount Of the value
of the property which they aad paid
him
There is a difference between a zig
business and a trust. A trust is big
business that has an arrangement to
get rid of competitor and bis bust
ness survives competition ny conquer
ing in the field OF intelligence aud
economy. lam for bis BUSINESS ana
/ am against the trusts -