Show OP OF GAIN UN the systematic and criminal fraud perpetrated on rodi food dr edison says that tile the health department needs better machinery for enforcing the laws against adulteration te and theeb the exposure fur for sale of unlit food u I 1 a As a proof of tho the extent of tile the evil tho law endeavors endeavor to control he states that in ili ono on year no lew than a million pounds of animal loud food wholly unfit t for far consumption was waa seized in this ellyard cit ell yand ho he intimates it lila Is belief that notwithstanding the utmost watchfulness fu on tile the part of himself and tile his assistants much improper food li 1 i simie Kled through the official bi blockade c cdade had and flade its way to the innocent or purchaser the attempt to sell or state animal food Is 3 but one of 0 tho the many dangerous frauds frol from which it la 1 necessary nece to it protect the public the greed of gain so BO paralyzes not only the tense sense of equity but the that of common humanity in many people that hat they da not hesitate to occupy them helves elves la in preparing for public consumption all kinds of food which they thay know to be unwholesome and not seldom even poisonous by reason of its condition or its adulteration the tha exposure of diseased ore polled palled in meat at la one of the be most mosi dangerous of those Iniquities because the effect of guch food upon the consumers Is ila ll 11 blo ble to be fatal dr edsona edsons stati statistics ales nevertheless show that but fyr for the law our markets would be with such auch vile food material anc and it cannot be 19 doubted that the bills of mortality would be much heavier than they are the law has lot hot hitherto so classified of this kind as to secure for them adequate wo we retain the rough HI go A lotions of crime which were made to meet the needs of a period lo 10 n which a whole class of modern nod r n villainies villa inies were unknown with the growth of social com coin l has arisen a 11 demand for a fuller and mora discriminating erlea inal code there are many offenses which judged by their effects upon the he community ought to b bo 0 punched I 1 h mill the utmost at most sev ll 11 alpy on lei jet arii because of our conservative h habits b classified as find and carry with them thu tho kind ot of penalty which has no de deterrent effect to fro fine it roan man who Is getting rich uy by poisoning hi his fellow creatures la a plainly preposterous we hang hand tile the murderer who takes a hingle life fire we simply mulct the he systematic adu adulterator aerator who tile the health 0 of f the whole public jn in so an amoun t 6 so small mall s that he can always afford to regard it as a license paid for carrying on his business whoever tampers with wl III food as ibe professional traffickers in adul adulteration teka do Is more to the community than any of the crimin ate ala for whose laches capital punishment Is reserved during the iho rebellion the north was filled with horror when a confederate erata agent in canalda canada was said to have formed I 1 a plan to spread smallpox through the federal ranks undoubted 1 the suggestion was hideous and dettl tah but how it a much in u h less HO ad Is the dvork tra do ghouls wrid wh tor r the he bak sake of a few miserably miser Inise rabie ablo dal dollars I 1 ra rs deliberately expose hundreds fahd a thousands of their fellow creata es to tile the imminent risk of disease lor or death dr edison his hag recently disco discovered y r a factory of bogus wine in aich salicylic acid los has been habitually employed ln in quantities certain to pro produce dee deleterious effects lecla ef upon all who drank the abominable decoction salicylic acid acas upon the he nervous system and upon the brain taken in largo large quantities it may produce insanity taken in small email continuous doses it will impair the judgment and memory the poo pie who use such a drug to 0 o conceal adulteration of course ourse care cara nothing for the mischief chiet ill they ey may do but the public ought to hold bold buch u ch scoundrels to a far closer accorn accountability u ta and to meet like ilia byrte m all a adulteration which dr edson n describes it Js Is not only deal desirable rable abat tho the executive machinery should mould be improved and strengthened but that the scope of the law should be exta extended and the penalties be ba pro portioned more adequately to the heinousness of tile |