New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-03
WILEY RAPS ROOSEVELT
Pure Food Authority Takes
/. Stump for Wilson.

TeTe Haute' Ind.' OCT Z-pr' harVe'
w. Wiley, former chief Of the federal
Bureau Of Chemistry and government
pure food expert, made his first appear
ance as q Democratic campaign speaker
here tonight. His speech was devoted
largely to an attack on Colonel Roosevelt,
who, he said. was falsely claiming credit
for the passage Of the pure food and drug
act. He announced he would support VIII
son and Marshall.
DR.. Wiley said In part:
Read the high sounding moralities or
the Prozre siye platform and compare
them with the actual performances o.
its master builder. cannot conceive Oh
any more wicked and law breaking per
Torrance. A benencent law-passed IN
good faith by Congress--was mercllessIy
eviscerated and the dlsempoWelIeu
CORPSE was turned over TO the Sc fetary
OF Agriculture for dissection. The sec
rotary of Agriculture, inspired py IA
TRUSTEES In crime, Solicitor McCabe ana
Associate Dunlap, attacked the carcass
with the avidity of fasting buzzards. ana
coon only the whitening cones OF tne
pure food law remained as mute wiz
neSSeS OF lIS cAl5teUSe'
After recitlng the opposition the pure
food law encountered, DR.. Wiley con-
tinued:
In spite of indifference, however, strong
support, as well az opposition, developer
IN the Congress Of the United states.
In the last years OF the battle Hepburn
Mann and Richardson, In the House. and
McCumber and Hepburn, In the Senate
fought tenaciously and aggressiveiy and
won.
In the autumn OF 1904 Senator Hey
burn, believing that a winning chance
10 recommend the passage OF the act IN
his message. The President replied that
II was OF so little consequence that IL
wasn't worth mentioning.
Or. Wiley spoke OF difficulties he had
encountered in enforcing the law and
1.-THE growth OF Solicitor McCabes
power" Finally, he sad, to keep out or
the courts the opponents OF the law ap-
pealed to Secretary Wilson and President
Roosevelt Continuing, he said:
Shortly thereafter was asked by the
Secretary OF Agriculture TO go with him
TO the Presidents office. Solicitor NC
Cabe and Associate Chemist Dunlap were
also Of the party. There We met Mr.. Cur
tice, OF Rochester, y. Y; Mar. Gfovenor'
representing Williams Brothers. OF De.
troIt, and Jumes S. Sherman, at that tine
member of the House of Represent "a
lives, appearing In the interest OF Sher-
man Brothers, OF Oneida, y. Z. Iney bdd
spent the previous evening with the Presi-
dent showing him how Wiley was rum
ing Republican business. This RepuDli-
can business consisted or putting benZoate
OF soda and saccharln into human toous'
The President summarized the CONVEX
sation these business men had held IN
him the night before he then turned 70
the Secretary OF Agriculture and said.
Mr.. Wilson, do you think the addition OF
benzoate OF soda in foods Is injurious
The secretary answered yes Then'
turning to me, ne said, DIR. Wiley, 90
you think the use OF benzoatc OF SODA In
foods is inturious?" ! answered, II 90
not think, | know; ! have tried II on
healthy young men and IL made them III
The same question was asked OF solicitor
McCabe and Associate Dunlap. They both
answered in the Affirmative.
Then turning to the Repubilcan repre-
sentatives Of business, and striking tn'
table a ringing blow with his fist, the
Pre- sldent said Gentlemen, II this dru.
Had matters stopped there there would
have been no Remsen board. But at this
juncture Mr.. Sherman interposed: But,
Mr.. President how about the saccharln!
Ny firm saved $4,000 last year by using
saccharin instead OF sugar" ]. unfortu.
said: YES. Mr.. President, and every one
who eats these products Is deceived, be-
lieving he is eating sugar, and, moreover
the health is threatened by this drug
Turning upon me in sudden anger ana
fierce visaae, the president said: ANY
body who says saccharin Is Injurious IS
an idiot; Or. Risey gives Il TO me every
day"
was gazetted. II was received with a
shout Of acclaim from the throat OF every
adulterator and misbrander Of foods In
the land.
Or. Wiley, declaring ne had been direct
ed 10 stop his experiments on young men.
continued:
Who committed this objectionable sin
against the conscience and health OF the
public? The great tribune of the peo-
pie. Theodore Roosevelt. and his Cabinet
officers Roosevelt Is just as likely 10
support the bad as the good; He is not
he is essentially dangerous 20 free insti-
tutions He who disfranchises the men
that Abraham Lincoln died to set free is
an apostate from the party which honored
him with the Presidency
After telling the story Of the "what-is-
wh'skey" investigation and prosecution.
which, were pending when Mr.. Roosevelt
went But Of Office. DR.. Wiley said: "Presi-
dent TAFT lost no time in utterly repudl-
ating.the only point on which Mr.. Roose-
Welt had upheld the law. In most OF the
whiskey cases. DR.. Wiley said, appeals
were pending when President Taft was tn
augursted.
President Taft" he added. has prtded
hi self on his confidence in and support
OF ne judiciary. Yet. knowing these cases
were pending, he stopped from his high
office TO do favor to the worst lot Of
adulterators In Christendom and ordered
the whole matter dropped from the dock
cts"