The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-30
WHY l)n. WILEY
 IS FOR WILSON
He Says Tatt and I, R Are
 Soldiers of Fraud.
ENEMIES OF PURE FOOD LAW

 Famous Chemist Believes the Health of the Nation Demands Election of che Democratic Tiekst-He Appeals Been Republicans.
 By HARVEY ". WILEY. (Fermsr Chief Chemist of the U. g. Department of Asricuiture.] k My appeal is chiefly to those who. like myself. have been lifelong Repub l lIcans. believe that no kind of an administrat ton is going to ruin the country. I have q high personal re gard for each one of the candidates for president and vice president on ali 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 a platform. lt was determined by my impressions of the real attitude of the candidates re specing the public welfare We are creatures of heredity and environ ment. Tn our attitude toward 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 welfare2 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 resumes his former seat on March 4, 1913 Mir. Roosevelt by reason of his attitude to- ward the food and drug act aban- doned the consum mers 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- phurouR compounds and sulphate of copper (bluestonef-were injurious to health.
 The law conferred upon me as chief of the bureau of chemistry the duty of acting as grand jury and determin- ing whether foods and drugs were adui- terated or misbranded. Instead of ap- pealin3 from my decisions to the courts. as the law requires, the users of these poisons appealed to President RoOse- welt. He not only listened to them. but he abrOgated the plain provisions of the law, appointed board not con- templated by theslaw and directed that these predatory interests might con tinue 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 l cannot believe that to be the proper course. Mir Taft inherited this exceed ingly bad condition of affairs from his predecessor and has not only continued this illegal board under whose patron age adulterators are still poisoning the people. but he did worse. In the mat ter of the aduiteration of distilled bev- erages in which Roosevelt upheld the legally constituted authorities MT. Taft reversed that policy and threw the mighty weight of the executive office to the support of the worst tot of adul- terators that ever disgraced a country
 MT. Wilson and MT. Marshall by their strenuous efforts in behalf of the food laws of their respective states have given a positive promise to end such a threatening state of affairs. They VII support to the utmost the officials under the law who are trying to protect the public health and will make short shrift of those who have brought about these present unbear- able conditions.
 Wilson and Marshall by their educa- tion and environment are free from bias in favor of predatory interests and are inspired by true patriotic zeal In behalf of public welfare.
 support the Democratic nominees in full knowledge that many of the prom inent Democrats in congress have been in full sympathy with the paral- ysis 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 of their power for evil. If Roosevelt or Taft be chosen the soldiers of fraud and adulteration will be impregnably tntrenched for another four years and benZoateS. Suphates and aduIterated alcoholic beverages will have a new lease of life
 1 believe also that President Wilson will renovate the department of agrf- culture, reeking. as 1t has been for the past twelve years. with scandals and favoritism He will see to it that the bureau of animal industry will