Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-03-21
ATTACK FOOD LAW
kARO CO. WANTS TO LABEL
GLUCOSE SYRUP "CORN"
TRUST WOULD STIFLE NEWS
Appeal to Newspapers for Aid in
Tearing Down Wisconsin's Pure
Food Laws

Madison. Wis, Mar. 19 Especially
That suppression of news of it's at
tack upon Wisconsin's pure food law
ia the game of the corn syrup" trust
this year, is made plain by Letter
of warning to newspaper publishers
not to print facts in favor OF the law.
In this letter lucrative advertising
contracts are held up to the editors
as the bait to induce them to pun
. the chestnuts out of the fire for the
trust.
The warning was issued in the
name of the two stalwart newspaper
organizations of the state and was
sent broadcast to newspaper publish
ers. It urges the publishers to aid
the trust in tearing down the Wis
consin law, for financial gain to
themselves. The last paragraph OF
the letter reads: "If you are asked
to publish these Emery articles, If
sent to you, We caution you to be
very careful as to what you do. 1t
is to your own interest not to do SO,
and We appeal to you to help us
stop such further legislation as Com
missioner Emery may endeavor to
have enacted in reference to such
things as effect our foreign and local
advertising Remember the bill we
must pass is No. 754-A."
This letter to the publishers was
sent out on q 'tip" that the PRO
gressiYe legislation news bureau
had discovered the plan of the trust
to slip through unnoticed and was
about to give it publicity.
Perhaps the most interesting feat
ure of the hurry-up warning sent
out in the interest of the trust is
the fact that it bears the name of
Harry w. Bolens as a member of the
Wisconsin Press association. Bolens
ig the would-be chief medicine man
of the stalwart wing of both parties
and is one of the bitterest opponents
Of all progressive laws 1t is also
signed by the legislative committee
OF the Daily Newspaper Publishers
OF Wisconsin, most of whom are con-
nected with stalwart Milwaukee
newspapers. Several of them, includ-
ing NJ A Hoyt, publisher of the Mil
waukee Daily News and John Pop
pendieck, Jr, publisher Of the Mil
waukee Sentinel are reported to
have repudiated their signatures to
the letter 1t is said that Mr.. Pop
pendieck was in New York when the
letter was written.
In 1909 the trust conducted a pub
licity campaign for their bill. using
the same advertising inducements
with the newspapers, and giving lar
ger profit inducements to the gro
GERS than an honest uncontrolled
product could offer Their methods
were opposed by their Wisconsin
counsel, who warned the trust that
the old time system of beating
through legislation, which the Wall
would not win in Wisconsin. 1t came
from good authority that enough
members of the assembly in 1911
were pledged in writing for the
trusts bill, before they were awak-
ened by the methods used to it's real
nature, to have given it majority
of more than twenty votes in the
house. The bill was defeated by a
large vote.
The trust is using the same meth
ods to prevent publicity this year
that it used to obtain favorable pub
licity two years ago, the advertising
bait. The fight this year is on, the
game of the trust has been exposed,
and when the proposed measure
comes up for passage, warm battle
is anticipated. The progressives see
in success for the trust in this bill
an entering wedge for all the food
adulterators of the country ID break
down the Wisconsin pure food law
and open this state to wholesale
fraud
Single Tax Lecture
Louis P. Post, editor of the Public,
Chicago, addressed the members of
the legislature in the assembly cham
Der Wednesday on the single tax
question. His lecture was in behalf
of the joint resolution introduced by
Assemblyman Nordman for an amend
ment to the constitution to provide
for municipalities in this state to
adopt the single tax limited if they
So elect. His talk was very interest