East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-30
DR.. WILEY Is IN
FAVOR OF WILSON

IDy Harvey w. WILEY former Chief |
Chemist of the L. $. Department of
Agriculture.)
NV appeal is chiefly to those who, /
like myself, have been lifelong re-
publicans. | believe that no kind of
Un administration is going to ruin the
country. have a high personal re- |
gard for each one of the candidates
Tor president and vice president on all
the tickets All the political plat
forms are mainly sound and all prom
is, effort in behalf Of the whole peo-
ole. My choice is not based on a
platform. II was determined by my
impressions of the real attitude Of the
candidates respecting the public well
fare. We are creatures of heredity
and environment. In our attitude
towards great public questions we are
almost altogether creatures of en-
Nironment.
What two men are by environment
least likely to be swayed by special
Interests ana most likely to be guided
bv devotion to public welfare? Two
,f the candidates have already been
tried In the presidential chair and we
know by experience what may be eX-
nected If either of them resume his
former seat on March 4, 1918. Mr..
Roosevelt by reason of his attitude
towards the Food and Drug act alb
andoned the consumers of the country
10 the rapacity of a few mercenary
manufacturers. Under authority OF
congress had carried on extensive
cxpe-iments with my so-called poison
SQUAD and found that certain sub
stances. viz. benzoic compounds, sui
furious compounds and sulphate of
copper (blue stone), were injurious
10 health.
Roosevelt Aided Food "DOpers."
The law conferred upon me, as
chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, the
duty of acting as a grand jury and
determining whether foods and drugs
were adulterated or misbranded. In
stead Of appealing from my decisions
+. 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 provisions of the law ap-
pointed board not contemplated oy
law. and directed that these preda-
tory Interests might continue their at
lacks on the health of the people until
this board. unknown to the law
should decide otherwise.
can we safely trust the campaign
Tor public health to Mr.. Roosevelt?
cannot believe that to be the proper
course. Mr.. Taft inherited this eX-
ceedingly bad condition of affairs
whose patronage adulterators are still
from his predecessor and has not only
continued this illegal board uniei
whose patronage adulaerators are still
In the matter of the adulteration o.
distilled beverages in which Roose
welt upheld the legally constituted au
thorities Mr. Taft revised that polio!
and threw the mighty weight of tn
executive office to the support of tn
worst lot of adulterators that ever dls
graced country.
Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Marshall b,
their strenuous efforts in behalf
the food laws of their respectlv
states, have given a positive promls
TO end such a threatening state o
affairs. They will support to the Ut
most the officials under the law VIII
are trying to protect the public healt
and will make short shift of thos
who have brought about these preser
unbearable conditions.
Wilson and Marshall by their. edr
cation and environment are FIRE
from bias in favor Of predatory II
terests and are inspired by true pa
triotic zeal in behalf of public we
fare
soldiers of Fraud, says Wiley.
| support the democratic nomine
in the full knowledge that many
the prominent democrats in congre
have been in full sympathy with Il
paralysis of the Food Law in beha
of the unholly dollar. But when L
democratic president and vice-pre'
dent lend the aid of their powerf
sympathy in behalf of the pub
health those of their own party
in sympathy with them will be robb
of their power of evil If Roosev
or Taft be chosen the soldiers of fra
and adulteration will be impregnal
entrenched for another four years
henzoates, sulfites and adulterated
Coholic beverages will have n
lease Of life
I believe also that President wis
will renovate the Department of \