Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-20
WHY DR. WILEY
 BACKS WILSON
Noted Health Expert De clares Taft and ROOse- welt Are Soldiers
 of Fortune
LAUDS DEMOCRACY
!. By HARVEY W. WILEY.
 (Former Chief Chemist of the U. S. i Department of Agriculture.)

My appeal is chiefly to those who, Nike myself. have been lifelong Repub- leans. believe that no kind of an administration is going to ruin the country. I have high personal re- gard for each one of the candidates for president and vice-presideent on all the tickets. All the political platforms are mainly sound and all promise ef- fort in behalf of the whole people. My choice is not based on a platform. It was determined by my impressions of the real attitude of the candidates re specting the public welfare. We are creatures of heredity and environ ment In our attitude towards 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 welfare? 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 resume his former seat on March 4, 1913. Mir. Roosevelt by reason of his attitude to- wards the food and drug act sban- doned the consumers 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- .phurous compounds and sulphate of copper (blue stone), were injurious to health
 E The law conferred upon me, as chief of the bureau of chemistry. the duty of acting as grand jury and deter mining whether foods and drugs were adulterated or misbranded. Instead of appealing from my decisions to the courts as the law requires, the users of these poisons appealed to President Roosevelt He not only listened to them. but he abrogated the plain pro visions of the law. appointed board not contemplated by the law, and d. rected that these predatory interests might continue their attacks or 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 Mir. Roosevelt? I cannot believe that to be the proper course. Mr. Taft inherited this ex- ceedingIy bad condition of affairs from his predecessor and has not only continued this Illegal board un- der whose patron pye adulteTators are still poisoning thc people, but he did worse In the matter of the aduitera- tion Of distilled beverages in which Roosevelt upheld the legally cOnsti- tuted authorities, Mir. Taft reversed that policy and threw the mighty weight of the executive office 10 the support of the worst lot Of adultera- tors that ever disgraced & country.
 Mir. Wilson and Mir Marshall by their strenuous efforts in behalf of the food laws of their respective states. have given 9 positive promise to end such a threatening state of affairs. They will support to the utmost the officials under the law who are trying to protect the public health ard will make short shrift of those who have brought about these present unbeara- ble conditions.
 i1 Wilson and Marshall by their educa- ton and environment are free from bias in favor of predatory interests and are inspired by true patriotic zeal l in behalf of public welfare.
 ! I support the Democratic nominees ] in fuli knowledge that many of the ] prominent Democrats in congress have | libeen in full sympathy with the paraly- i sis of the food law in behalf of the unholy dollar. But when the Demo cratic president and vice-president j lend the aid Of their powerful sympa- i thy in behalf of the public health ] those of their own party not in sym
 sathy 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 | eutrenehed fer another four years and ! beuzoates, sulphites and aduiterated ] alcoholic beyeridges will have g new lease of life
 1 I believe also that President Wilson Vili renovate the department of agri-
 culture, reeking, as it has been for
 the past twelve years. with scandals
 and faForitism. He will see to 1t that the bureau Of animal industry will
 protect the public health instead oi | the efforts of the packers to sell dis
 eased meats under the deceptive
 phrase ''U. s. Inspected and Passed. Under President Wilson no more Pin.
 chots will be kicked out Of the service
 TO more unspsakable Mccabes will ex
 ercise dictatorial powers. There will
 be no more cotton leaks and jungle
 atrocities, TO more Egerglade swin
 dles. Baccaneering. boasting and
 buneasnbe will give place to sane ef
 fo.-ts Tor the promotion of real agri
 culture and the public health
 Under Wilson the department oi
 agriculture wiil be restored to speak