River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-19

philosophy. All such amiablt
metaphors, saws, SMILES, associat-
ed ideas and folklore eschew the be
lifting idea of water in milk. Con
ira, the milk held in mind is good
milk. recall but one instance tc
the contrary (seemingly the mad
yereence of a daring and erractic
genius), viz:
oh Mirth and Innocencer Oh,
milk and Waterl
Ye happy mixtures of more
happy days
Indeed, the universal, primal and
spontaneous mental conception we
have of milk, in the first instance,
is that it is unwatered. Take one
case for example: Milk and honey
are emblems of PASTORAL good
luck, peace and pl n "a
large and goodly land. Witness
the phrase. A land flowing with
milk and honey. Eek iii. 8; Jer.
xvii. 22.) But what a derisive pic
ture would rise to harass the imag-
ination by use of the phrase, A land
flowing with watered milk and
honey? We think the ordinace pro-
ceeds on the notion that however
much the cow waters her own milk
in her own humble and honest way
Getting nature take her course),
the milkman has no right to de-
signedly duplicate natures gift of
water by furtive gift of his own
from the barnyard pump. 1t pro-
ceeds on the underlying theory that
it is fraud, a trick and a veritable
cheat-contrary to the cannon law
and hence of that phrase of it
known colloquially as the square
deal ito sell water, when milk, not
water, is the commodity dealt
in. If one is not to get a stone who
asks for bread, no more (under the
spirit of the ordinance) is he to get
water who asks for milk"
The regulation of matter
of such general and vital
concern as milk is properly within
the province of the state legisla-
ture. 1t is for the legislative pow
er representing the people as whole
to prescribe the measures that are to
safeguard the supply. But the leg
islature may, and very frequently
does, delegate the power to
its creature, the municipality;
and so we find the individual
communities supported by the
courts in their enactment and
enforcement of drastic ordin-
ances regulating the production
and distribution of milk.
AS these measures entail addi-
tional labor and expense on
the part of those engaged in
the milk business many of the
laws have been bitterly OPP
posed in the courts, but quite
generally they have been su-
stained. 1t is now clearly under
stood that municipalities hav-
ing the usual powers may license
milk dealers and prevent all unli-
censed persons from selling milk
within the municipality. A reason
able license fee may be enacted and |
the health officers may be given the
authority to issue or withhold |
licens e; and unless il is shown that |
they acted from improper motives,
their action in refusing to issue or
in revoking Incense, under the |
authority of the municipality, |
will be supported by the
courts.
The Legislative bodies may al
so prescribe laws against
authorizations. In the absence of
a legal enactment an adulterant
must be unwholesome before ac-
ton can be taken against the |
parties responsible But modern
laws forbid all adulterants, whether
harmless or not. Under these regu-
lations water is an adulterant. So
any preservatives or other unnatural
substances, no matter how harmless,
are adulterants. Ii the law forbids
the adulteration any person who
adulterates is guilty and may be
punished under the law. Usually
the statutes and ordinances also
prohibit the sale of adulterated
milk and under the usual form of
the law it is not necessary to prove