Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-11
FOR HONEST
PRODUCTS

When Mr.. J. Q. Emery steps out
from the Dairy and Food Commits
sio1er's office, Wisconsin viii lose
one Of her most faithful and eff
Gent public servants. For fifteen
years this high-minded and patrio-
tic official has Iabored hard and
! long for q high standard OF food
products IN Wisconsin and an hon
est standard Of dairy goods. And it
has been this fight which has con
tributed much TO the great success
! OF the dairy business IN Wisconsin,
He has insisted that Wisconsin but.
ter should be BUTTER, and that the
merchants who buys Wisconsin but
/ ter should know that he buys real
IBUTTER, al butter and the best
butter. If a Wisconsin full cream
cheese says it is a full cream
cheese, the buyer knows that it is
a full cream cheese. Mr.. Emery has
at all times compelled the label on
a food commodity to tell the whole
truth about that commodity. He has
been the consistent enemy Of the
aduIterator. The man who battles
against the adulteration of food
battles for the people, and the PEG,
PIE have reason to look with sus-
picion upon the man who in any way
1 lends his influence to help the adj
uIteratOr slip in his adulteration with
out acknowledgment of that adulter-
alton.
The state senate is to be asked
to confirm the appointment Of Geo.
J. Weigle as Mr.. Emery's successor.
The Blue Book states that Mr..
Weigle was born in Milwaukee and
has always resided there; that he
attended a parochiaI school and bus,
mess college; entered a drug store
as apprentice at the age of fifteen
and opened his own store at the
age OF twenty-five and now has one
OF the largest drug stores in the
city of Milwaukee; and that he is
secretary and treasurer OF Thomp.
sons Matted Food company.
MI. Weigle was a member of the
state senate in 1913. and his record
on certain questions is Illuminating.
On JuyI 9, 1913, Bill No. 754 A.
cameo up in the senate for concur
renee. The bill was passed, fifteen
senators voting AYE" and twelve
| senators voting no" Mr.. Weigle
was one OF the senators that voted
no. This bill became section 46O1-
la Of the statutes and relates to
the labelling of glucose and syrup
mixtures. 1t requires that when glu-
cOse is mixed with sugar-cane syrup
or other syrups, the percentage of
the syrup shall be stated on the
label. More than year ago, The
| Corn Products Refining Company of
| New York applied to the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the Western District
OF Wisconsin for an injunction re-
straining Dairy and Food Commits
siOner J. Q. Emery from enforcing
the statute and that case is still
pending in the said court. Certainly
the Corn Products Refining Com
pany of New York should be we'll
pleased if the senate confirms Mr..
WeigIe's appointment as Dairy and
Food Commissioner. Because he once
voted to permit glucose to be sold
in the State of Wisconsin under
the name of syrup does not necessar-
lily mean that he would stand for
such misrepresentation of a commodi,
ty today. If he becomes the states
Dairy and Food Commissioner we
hope that he viii stand as squarely
and fight as bravely for pure foods
and an honest statement of the con-
tents Of every food package as has
Mr.. Emery.
The state of Wisconsin knows the
uncompromising loyalty of Mr..
Emery to the interests of the people
in all questions relating to dairy
and food products. Because Mr..
WeigIe is on record as fayoring a
compromise label upon a food pack
age, he will enter the office Of
Dairy and Food Commissioner, if
confirmed, under justifiable suspi-
cion. But in his predecessor he has
the nobIest example of what the
Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commits,
sioner can be and should be, and ii
the senate confirms mis- appointment
we sincerely hope that he will pro
fit by that example.-The Wisconsin
State Journal.