River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
1 Saves peonIe $4,000, COO.

return to the people of the state of
5000 for every dollar invested.
This is the statement made and sup
ported by statistics in report re-
Gently made by Dairy and Food Com
missioner J. @. Emery to Governor
McGoYern.
The report also tells of the indie
scribably bad food which was being
sold to the people of the state before
the commission was founded, and of
the frauds which were dragging down
the states dairy industry and running
the foreign market for what are now
the states greatest products.
With the election of Governor Up
ham in 1894, the appointment of the
late H. G. Adams as commissioner and
the removal of the commission from
under the spells system by which it
had been run by the Democrats, the
enforcement of pure food laws began
Commissioner Adams reports condi-
tions then as follows:
Tea had been adulterated; coffee
beans made out of rye paste and col
adulterated with white earth; candy
with the same material; common
spirit vinegar sold for cider vinegar;
a riot of adulteration in all forms Of
spices; butter adulterated with wa
ter casein, lard and tallow; smoked
ham that smoke never touched; bak-
ing powders with labels written by
-
artificially and preserved by rank poi.
son; sausage made of stale meat I'M
fit for human use, brightly colored by
an injurious preservative; maple
sugar made of brown sugar and a
beautiful label; New Orleans molasses
crepit negro would be like the Venus
de Milo; milk, the special food of
babies and invalids and the universal
food of the people, diluted, skinned
and poisoned; veal from calves killed
within 4S hours after birth; cheese
robbed of butter fat and filled with
hog fat; canned goods full of water
and injurious preservatives; adulter
ated beer, adulterated whisky, adul
terated wines, adulterated drugs cot
tonseed oil sold for olive oil; honey
mixed with glucose; lard containing
caustic lime, starch, stearine and cot
tonseed oil; peas colored with poison
Gus copper Nearly everything which
can be used for food or drink has been
sold to the American people in recent
years under the name of pure food
products"
State to Remit Over 100000 Taxes.
At the instance of Gov Francis e.
McGovern more than 100000 in
taxes will be RENTED this year
Coupled with $940,235 RENTED last
year this means a total of about 49,
100000 that the governor has had re-
mitted during the two years he has
been in office.
The taxes RENTED include $450,000
for state capitol purposes, and ap-
proximately 100000 for normal
schools.
In addition, the state university tax,
estimated to reach approximately ST.
100000, has. been RENTED, making
total for the year of more than ST.
100000, an excess of more than ST.
100000 over the amount RENTED
last year. The total amount saved to
the people of the state through this
action is therefore over $3,O0O,000.
The action looking to renting
these taxes began in Milwaukee Gov
ernor McGovern, after carefully run
ming over the tax rolls and the report
of the state treasurer on the finances
of the state, saw that 100000 could
be RENTED.
Expense Items Filed.
Thomas J. Mahon, secretary of the
Progressive state central committee.
filed a statement with the secretary
of state showing the committees ex-
penditures from October to October
II to be $1,425.65, and its total re-
ceipts to be $1,000 OF this amount
$1,000 was received from the national
committee of the party, while H. E.
Miles of Racine gave 5000, and Harry
J. and Mrs. ]. B. Merrill of Milwaukee
gave 500.
Other expense statements filed
were
William j. Cary, Milwaukee, candi-
date for congress from Fourth dis
trict, $40 James F. Trottman, Milwau,
kee, candidate for congress from Fifth
district, $231.71; E. E. Brown, Wau-
paca, candidate for congress from
Eighth district, $299.40; M. E. Burke,
Beaver Dam. Democratic candidate
for congress from Second district,
$50; Nicholas Schmidt, Marathon,
Democratic candidate for state treas.
urer, $717.99; G. A. Kading, Water
town, Democratic candidate for attor
ney general, $1,425.06; Charles L. Hill
Rosendale.
Apple Crop Small.
That the apple crop in Wisconsin
this fall will be only about so per cent.
of last years production, is the
statement of Frederick R. Cranefield,
secretary of the State horticultural
society, who is preparing report on
fruit in Wisconsin, although Mr..
Cranefield says that the apple crop this
year in Wisconsin will far short
of other years.
Urges Cooperation.
IF the farmers of Wisconsin would
cooperate and market their own pota.
toes, figuring three cents a bushel as
a conservative saving to them, they