Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-25

That Portion of tho Public Which
Persistently Refuses to Believe That
the Milk Industry Is in a Demoraltzed
and Dangerous Condition Is Con-
fronted by the Public Act of a Gov
ernOr of New York State, Whose State
ment, Issued to the Press March @,
1914, Reveals in a Few Words More
of the Underhand Activities of the
Dairy Products Business Than all the
Public Prosecutions of Recent Years
Overnight This Statement Succeeded
in Opening Eyes That Were Seemingly
Closed Forever.
When the facts, proved by docu-
mentary evidence. concerning the
manner in which Governor Glynn was
deceived into appointing a padded
Milk Commission, were laid before
him, he took into his own hands the
treachery by which 1t was proposed
to use the office of chief executive of
the State to prevent the exposure of
gross Irregularities in the milk in
dustry and to interfere with all legis-
lation aimed at the milk abuses not
only of New York but of the entire
country
March 6. 1914, the Milk Commission
was reorganized and the governor is
sued the following statement:
''At the time 1 appointed the COM
mission, as. the result of a cleverly
executed trick on the part of certain
milk dealers, 1 did not know of their
operations in connection with the paid
lobbyists of certain scientific labora-
tories to defeat all legislation for bet
ter and cleaner milk.
Il did not know that members OF
my commission had attended the con-
ference at Buffalo, December. 1918.
with officers of the New York State
Ice Cream Manufacturers Associa-
ton, at which conference 1t was de-
cided that no standards should be
adopted to control the sanitary char
acter of ice cream.
II did not know that one week later
at the annual convention of the
New York State Dairymen's Associa-
ton at Syracuse. an attorney for one
of the trade journals was showed into
the program to read paper on
'Meddlers and Muddlers.'
II did not know that two members
of my commission had warned the
Syracuse dairymen that there was
likelihood of reform legislation in
1914, which would have to be blocked
because 1t might prove dangerous to
pasteurize dirty milk, as is now be-
ing done, if such legislation were en-
acted.
II did not know that one of my
members had three men thrown off
the committee on resolutions of the
New York State Dairymen's Associa-
tion, in order to substitute three men
of his own crowd. when it became
known that the New York Milk Com
mittee intended to ask for an en-
dorsement of standards that would
better the milk supply.
II did not know that in appointing
one of my commissioners 1 was ap-
pointing a man who the farmers
think is active in representing their
interests, but who has shown marked
signs of sympathy with the milk deal
ers.
II did not know that I was ap-
pointing a person to the commission
who had charged DR.. Harvey w
Wiley. in writing with taking $4,000
graft, and who had repeated these
charges to club women of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs all
over the country
"I did not know that this person
when charged by DR.. Wiley with
these accusations denied them, al
though in the meantime two of the
written charges with signatures at
tached have been placed in my pos
session.
II did not know that there were
such strong motives on the part of
some of my advisers for heading off
an investigation which would reveal
one of the most infamous conspira-
cies against public health ever re-
corded in this State.
L did not know that was ap-