The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-18
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE COMES OUT STRONGLY IN SUPPORT
 OF DIR. WILEY.
CONDEMNS THE TARIFF BOARD
Says 1t Looks Like an Effort to Delay Legislation on this important Sub ject-Aso Discusses Trusts
 to lowans.

Sioux City. la, Sept. Firm in support for Dr. Harvey W. Wiley in his controversy oVer the enforcement of the pure food laws stood out prom inent in speech by Governor Wood row Wilson at the interstate fair to- day.
 He drew attention to what he con ceiyed to be the ineffectuality of boards of experts established under the administration of President Roose- 9elt He used an illustration to his commission, or board of experts, to handle either the tariff or trust prob lems
 Governor Wilson voiced for the first time his objection to the tariff board idea, declaring it would mean "a postponement of tariff legislation.
 He turned early in his speech to the pure food question.
 'Everybody now suspects" he said, and the suspicion is based upon a great many facts that can be estab- lished by proof, that these pure food laws are not lived up to, that the in spection is not always what it ought to be, and that great slany things are permitted to be done which nulli- fly the pure food laws.
 T suppose that most of you know that great controversy arose be cause Dr. Wiley, who was in charge of the pure food administration, ob jected to the use of benzoate of soda in certain things that were sold tc you, particularly in cans for food No very nice thing occurred The gentleman who wanted to use ben zoate of soda persuaded the president, MT. Roosevelt, that this was a scien- tific question, and therefore he ought to have q board of chemists to de- termine it. And Mr. Roosevelt picked out some of the most eminent and honest chemists in this country, head ed by a personal friend of mine, the president of Johns Hopkins University, and submitted to them this question:
 Is benzoate of soda harmful to the human stomach or to the human digestion when taken internally ?
 Observe that that was the only question submitted to them and that was exactly what the people who wanted to use benzoate of soda for wrong purposes wanted to limit the inquiry to. These gentlemen had to say that benzoate of soda in itself was not harmful to the human system, as | believe it is not But they were not asked this:
 "'Can benzoate of soda be used to conceal putrifaction, can it be used in things that have gone bad to con ceal the fact that they have gone bad and to induce people to put them in their stomachs after they have gone bad?
 "They were. not asked that question, because if they had been, they would have said yes
 q want to warn the people of this country to beware of commissions of experts. I have lived with experts all my life and I know that experts don't see anything except what is un- der their microscopes, under their eye. They don't even perceive what is under their nose and an expert feels in honor bound to confine himself to the particular question which you have asked him.
 Suppose you wanted to settle the liquor question by asking a body of experts whether alcohol was poison Or not I believe they would have to tell you that it isn't poison.
 But does that settle the liquor question. There are many things that you can take into your stomach that are not poison that will make you crazy"
 Turning to trusts, the speaker dis tinguished between "big business anu trusts. He referred to the success of Andrew Carnegie in the steel business and declared that when MT Carnegie's competitors found they could not un- dersell him, because he had more brains in running the business, they bought him out at four or five times the value of his property and then, by what they charged afterwards for their products, they made us pay in- terest on the four or five times the amount of the value of the property which they had paid him.
 There is difference between a big business and trust" said the governor "A trust is a big business that thas an agreement to get rid of competition and big business survives competition by conquering in the field of intelligence and economy. am for big business and am against the trusts.'