Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-26
WILEY WILL
SUPPORT WILSON
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley Is Supporting
Wilson This Year. His Reasons for
Doing So Are Given Below-They
Are Taken From The Democratic
Text Book, Recently Published.

publicans. | believe that no kind Of
an administration is going to ruin the
country. | have a high personal re-
gard for each one of the candidates
for President and Vice-Pre-ident on
all the tickets. All the political plat
forms are mainly sound and all prom
pie. Ny choice is not based on a
platform. 1t was determined by my
impression Of the real attitude of the
candidates respecting the public well
fare. We are creatures of heredity
and environment. In our attitude to-
wards great public questions we are
almost altogether creatures of eIvi-
ronment.
What two men are by environment
least likely to be swayed by special
interests and most likely to be guided
by devotion to public welfare? Two
of the candidates have already beer
tried in the Presidential chair and We
know by experience what may be ex-
pecrc3 if either Of them n
former seat on March 4, 1913. Mr..
Roosevelt by reason Of his attitude to-
wards the Food and Drug act aban-
doned the of the country
to the rapacity of a few mercenary
manufacturers. Under authority of
Congress | had carried on extensive
experiments with my so-called poison
squad and found that certain sub
stances, viz, benZoic compounds.
sulfurous compounds and sulphate
of copper (blue stone), were injur-
ious to health.
s"The law conferred upon me, as
chief of the Bureau Of Chemistry.
the duty of acting as a grand jurr
and determining whether foods and
drugs were a~dulterated or misbrand-
ed. Instead Of appealing from my dc
cisions to the courts as the law re
quires, the users of these poisons ap-
pealed to President Roosevelt. He not
only listened to them, but he abro-
gated the plain provisions of the
law, appointed a Board not contem-
plated by the law, and directed that
these predatory interests might on
tinue their attacks on the health O.
the people until this board, unknown.
to the law, should decide otherwisc
Can we safely trust the campaign
for public health to Mr.. Roosevelt
| cannot believe that to be the proper
course. Mr.. Taft inherited this G.
ceedingly bad condition of affairs
from his predecessor and has not on
ly continued this illegal Board unde-
whose patronage adulterators arc
still poisoning the people, but he did
worse. In the matter of the adultera-
tion of distilled beverages. in which
Roosevelt upheld the legally consti-
tutcd authorities, Mr.. Taft reversed
that policy and threw the mighty
weight Of the executive Office 0 the
support of the worst lot of adultera-
tors that ever d%isgraced a colntry
SIR. Wilson and Mr.. MarzhaIl 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 Or
affairs. They will support TO the ut
most 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 unbearable conditions.
Wilson and Marshall by their edu-
cation and environment are free
bias in favor Of predatory inter
ests and are inspired by true pa
zeal in behalf Of public well
fare.
II support the Democratic nom-
in the full knowledge that many
of the prominent Democrats in Cor
gress have been in full sympathy
with the paralysis Of the Food Law
in behalf of the unholy dollar. But
when the Democratic President and
Vice-President lend the aid Of their
powerful sympathy in behalf Of the
health those of their own par
ty not in sympathy with them will be
robbed of their power for evil. r
Roosevelt or Taft be chosen the sd
diers of fraud and adulteration will
be impregnably entrenched for an
other four years and ~benzoates sui
flies and ~adulterated alcoholic Dev-
erages will have a new lease Of life
II believe also that President Will
son will renovate the Department OF
Agriculture reeking, as it has been for
the past twelve years. with scandals
and favoritism. He will see to it that
the Bureau of Animal Industry will
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