The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
|DR. HARVEY WILEY MAKESH|SDEb
 AS A DEMOCRAT Attacks Roosevelt and Taft in Terre Haute
 Speech NO CREDIT DUE T. R. FOR PURE FOOD ACT Speaker Gives His Reasons for Quit ting Republican Party as We'll
 as Facts About Col.
 Roosevelt

Terre Haute, Ind, October 2-Dr. liar
 vey W. Wiley. former chief of the fed
 eral bureau of chemistry, and government
 pure food expert, made his debut as a
 democratic campaign speaker here to-
 night. His speech was devoted largely
 to an attack upon Colonel Roosevelt, who,
 he said, was falsely claiming credit for
 the passage of the pure food and drug act He announced he would support Wilson and Marshall.
 Read the high-sounding moralities of
 the progressive platform" said the doc tor, and compare them with the actual performances of its master builder. They don't seem consistent. I cannot conceive of any more wicked and law-breaking performance. A benefcent law-passed in good faith by Congress--was merciless- ly eviscerated and the disemboweled
 corpse was turned over to the Secretary of Agriculture for dissection. The, Sec retary of Agriculture. inspired by his trusties in crime, Solicitors McCabe and
 Associate Dunlap, attacked the carcass | with the avidity of fasting buzzards and soon only the whitening bones of the poor
 pure food law remained as mute wit nesses of it's existence"
 Reasons for Quitting Republicans | Declaring that he had remained loyal to the republican party for many years | in spite of his conviction that it was l yearly becoming a worshiper at the shrine of the dollar and less mindful of honesty in business and the public health and welfare" pr. Wiley said: T now
 believe that the republican party as at present constituted is so completely sub jugated by the dollar, so permeated by the canker of big business as it's only god, that only disastrous defeat can ever re- | store 1t to health
 "In my own case, the chief cause of breaking away from my life long political affiliations is directly due to the attitude | of two republican administrations, viz: those of Roosevelt and Taft, to the food
 and drugs act.
 | Speaking of the passage of the act and the determination of those who | had opposed 1t to prevent It's enforce | ment, Dr. Wiley continued: Having
 succeeded so long in blocking the leg | islation, they were serene in the faith | that, affiliated as they were with the
 dominant party, they could prevent the | enforcement of the act Evidently their 1 faith was not founded on phantoms. At | a banquet In New York on New Years | Eve, 1906, a wealthy manufacturer
 rose to speak at 11:o5. D. m. Looking | at the. clock, he said In five minutes I the food and drugs act will be born lin five minutes after twelve it will be
 dead This was a prophecy. alas, which | came near proving true, but not quite so speedily as was predicted.
 Dr. Wiley spoke of difficulties he had
 encountered in enforcing the law, of the appointment of Associate Chemist Dunlap and the growth of Solicitor McCabe's power" Finally, he said, to keep out of the courts, the opponents of the law appealed to Secretary Will son and President Roosevelt,
 Conference With Roosevelt Shortly thereafter he continued, "l was asked by the Secretary of Agri- culture to go with him to the Presi-
 dents office Solicitor McCabe and As-
 sociate Chemist Dunlap were also of the party. There we met MT Curtice Of
 Rochester, N. Y., MT. Grovenor. repre- senting Williams Brothers of Detroit, and James $. Sherman. at that time member of the House of Representata- lives appearing in the interest of Sher-
 man Bothers of oneida, N. Y They had spent the previous evening with the President showing him how Wiley was ruining republican business. This particular republican business consisted of putting benzoate of soda and sac charin into human foods. The President stated the object of the meeting and summarized the conversation these bus mess men had held with him the night before He then turned to the Secre- | tary of f,Agriculture and said. MT Will son do you think the addition of ben zoate of soda in foods is injurious? l The secretary answered yes Then | turning to me, he said, 'Dr. Wiley, do | you think the use of benzoate of soda | in foods Is unjurious? l answered I do not think, I know. I have tried 1t on healthy young men and it made them lill. The same question was asked of Solicitor McCabe and Assistant Dun | lap They both answered in the affirm ative.
 Wiley Bitterly Rebuked
 Then turning to the republican repre- sentatives of business, and striking the table ringing blow with his fist, the President said: Gentlemen. If this drug is injurious yoh shall not put 1t in foods. Had matters stopped there, there would have been no Remsen board. But at this juncture MT sherman interposed; But, Mir. President. how about the sac charin? My firm saved $4000 last year by using saccharin instead of sugar. l un- fortunately 'butted in at this juncture and said, Yes, MT President and every one who eats these products is deceived. believing he is eating sugar, and more over, the health is threatened by this drug Turning upon me in sudden arl- ger and fierce visage. the President said; Anybody who says saccharn is injurious is an idiot pr. -Rixey gives it to me every day Having thus had my mental classi- fication officially defined, I withdrew Two days thereafter the Remsen board was gazetted. 1t was received with shout of acclaim from the throat of every adulterator and misbrander of foods In the land. Instead of having to go to the courts to defend their nefarious practices, they were now the wards of the Great Father at Washington, and from that time to this have continued their activl- ties in poisoning and defrauding the peo- | ple under his protecting wing. All prose- cutions against the users of benzoic acid and it's salts, sulfurous acid and it's salts alum, saccharin and sulphate of copper
 were suspended and the mercenary inter
 ests: comprising not to exceed 5000 peo-