Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-10-24
WHY DIR. WILEY
IS FOR WILSON
He Saws Taft and T. r. Are SOL
diers of Fraud.
mo Chemist Beneves rne 7ea'tn
II the Nation Demands Election
Of the Democratic
Ticket.
oy HARVEY W. WILEY.
(Fsrmer Chief Chemist OF the y. .
Department of Agricultural

u O4AST SA&0A ShOAA
Department Of Agricultural =
Nv Appeal is chiefly to those VINO
Ike myself, have been lifelong Hepuo-
believe that 40 i OF an
administration is going to rulh TIC
country. | have a high personal re-
xard for each one of the candidates 1of
president and vice-presideent on all
tickets. All the political platforms
are mainly sound and all promise 81
fort in behalf Of the whole people MY
is not based on a PLATFORM. II
WAS determined by my IMPRESSIONS Vi
the real attitude of the candidates re-
speeding the public welfare. we are
creatures OF heredity and environ
mont In our attitude towards erea'
public questions we are almost a''o
xether creatures of environment.
What two men are by nvlronmeh
least likely to be swayed by special
interests and most likely to be guided
by devotion to public welfare! l"o
OF the candidates have already oeeh
tried in the presidential chair ana we
know by experience what may De eS
pected II either of them resume MS
former seat on March 4, 1918" MI
Roosevelt by reason OF his attitude w.
wards the food and drug act aoah-
dom ed the consumers of the country
to the ~rapacity of a few nerceharS
manufacturers. Under authority OF
congress- ! had carried on extensive
governments with my so-called poison
squad and found that certain suo-
stances. viz, benzoic compounds, SUI
phurous compounds and sulphate OF
copper Cblue stone). were injurious TO
health.
The law conferred upon me, as CHER
Of the bureau OF chemistry, the duty
Of acting as a grand jury and deter
mining whether foods and drugs were
adulterated or mtsbranded. 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 a board
not contemplated by the law. and d.
| rected that these predatory interests
! might continue 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 Mr.. Roosevelt? |
cannot believe that to be the proper
course. Mr.. Taft inherited this ex-
ceedingly bad condition OF affairs
from his predecessor and has not
only continued this illegal board un,
der whose patronage adulterators are
still poisoning the people, but he did
worse. In the matter of the adultera-
ton of distilled beverages in which
Roosevelt upheld the legally consti-
tuted authorities, Mr.. Taft reversed
that policy and threw the mighty
weight of the executive Office to the
support OF the worst lot of adultera.
tors that ever disgraced a country.
Mr.. Wilson and MIR. Marshall by
their strenuous efforts in behalf Of the
food laws Of their respective states
have given a positive promise to END
such q threatening state of affairs
They will support to the utmost the
oncials under the law who are trying
to protect the public health and vii
make short shrift of those who have
brought about these present unbeara
BILE conditions.
Wilson and Marshall by their educa
ton and environment are free from
bias in favor of predatory interests
and are inspired by true patriotic yea
In behalf Of public welfare.
support the Democratic nominee.
in full knowledge that many of tn,
: prominent Democrats in congress hay,
been in full sympathy with the paraly
sis Of the o law in behalf of tn,
unholy dollar. But when the Demo
} cratic president and vice-presidep
l lend the aid of their powerful sympa
= thy In behalf of the public health
those of their own party not in syn
y pathy with them will be robbed O
their power for evil. If Roosevelt O
Taft be chosen the soldiers of fran,
and adulteration will be impregnabl
e]ntrenched for another four years an,
b~enzoates. %sulphites n adulterate,
: alcoholic b~everidges will have a ne1
lease Of life.
believe also that President Wilso
I will renovate the department of ayr
culture. reeking, as it has been to
y the past twelve years., with scandai
. and favoritism. He will see to 1t tha
: the bureau of animal industry wi
protect the public health instead {
:, the efforts of the packers to sell di,
= eased meats under the %deceptiv
{ phrase ~. S. Inspected and Passed
Under President Wilson no more ri,
chots will be kicked out of the servic,
no more ~unspeakable McCahes will e.
ercise dictatorial powers There wi
be no more cotton leaks and jung
atrocities. no more Everglade swil