The Detroit times., 1912-10-04
Wiley Rabs RooseVeh's
Stand On Pure Food

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 3.-Dr.
Harvey w. Wiley made his debut as
q Democratic campaign speaker here
last night. His speech was devoted
largely to an attack upon. Col Rooso-
welt, who, he said. was falsely claim
ing credit for the passage OF the pure
food and drug act.
Read the high-sounding moralitics
of the Progressive platform" said the
doctor, and compare them with the
actual performances OF It's master
builder. They don't seem TO consist.
I'm the autumn OF 1904, Senator
Hepburn, believing that a winning
chance was at hand, asked President
Roosevelt to recommend the passage
OF the act in his message.
THE president replied that II was
OF so little consequence that 1t wasn't
worth mentioning"
| DR.. Wiley said to keep out OF the
courts the opponents of the law ap-
pealed to Secretary Wilson and Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Shortly thereafter" he continued,
II was asked by the secretary of agri-
culture TO go with him TO the presi-
dents office. Solicitor McCabe and
Associate Chemist Dunlap were also
of the party. There We met Mr.. Cur
tice, of Rochester, N. Y, Mr.. Grow
encr, representing Williams Bros, OF
Detroit, and James S. Sherman, az
pearing In, the interest of Sherman
Bros, of Oneida, n. Y. They had
spent the previous evening with the
president, showing him how Wiley
was running Republican business.
This particular Republican busi-
ness consisted OF putting benzoate OF
soda and saccharin into human foods,
The president stated the object OF
the meeting and summarized the con-
versation these business men had held
with him the night before. He asked
us IL benzoate of soda was injurious,
and we told him II was.
Two days thereafter the Remsen
board was gazetted. IL was received
with a shout of acclaim from the
throat of every adulterator and mis-
/, brander OF foods In the land. Instead
| of having to go to the courts to de-
fend their nefarious practices they
were the wards of the Great Father
at Washington"
who committed this objectionable
sin against conscience and health OF
the public? The Great Tribune OF
the people, Theodore Roosevelt, and
his cabinet officers," DR.. Wiley CON
tiued.
II am naturally not greatly enthused
with the prospect OF the continuation
OF this crime against humanity by
the ratttrp 90 andnra paooavalt AZ
supreme power.
welded his power when president, his
well-known contempt for congress
and for law, and his dictatorial con
/ troll OF the convention which nominal
ed him for president, do not auguI
well for the permanence of the repub
.lic under his further dictatorship.
Roosevelt is just as apt to support
the bad as the good He is essential
ly dangerous to free institutions. He
who disfranchises the men that
Abraham Lincoln died to set free is
an apostate from the party which hon
ored him with the presidency"
or the appointment of Associate
Chemist Dunlap by Mr.. Roosevelt, the
speaker said: "In order to appoint
this inteIloper to his high position the
president of the United States
suspended the civil servic law.
Thus, by acquiscence OF the secre
tary of agriculture and by direction
of the president of the United States
two great laws, each intended to pro
tect the people, were set aside 10
place in supreme power two of the
most malicious men that ever dis
graced the public service"