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Show i The New Laws. , Never before In the history of thti country has the New Years begun with the introduction of so many now laws of nnticnnl importance. Of coufra tho moat important of these is tho pur food net which it is believed will affcctl the health of millions of houscholdnj Five acts of the first session of th Fifty ninth Congress iro now in efFeaJj as laws. They nro the Free Alcohip Inw, the Anti pass section of US' Interstate Commerce Act the modifiq tion of the Navigation laws to stmjB fy enrollments nnd licenses, the inwjM licensing druggists in tho DistrlctiB, Columbia, nnd tho Pure Food - kV This last Inw applies to many thB nnds of stnple articles of food usdH every homo throught tho lcngthH brendth of tho country. There IsuP son to expect much difficulty in itflK ecutfon. For months past Mr. B the Secretary of Agriculture hasjfflH' hearing delegations composed oLmiB fneturers, Jobbers nnd mcrchanwBEEr through their skilled spokcsmcwwH-' deavoring to secure somo ndvnnppK the formulation of rcgulatfonsjBfHe enforcement of tho new law. VisB-tion VisB-tion of tho new law is in tho iKnSa principle of tho Constitution FeK injurious to health arc to iBbarfll from Interstate commerce Kte MK is thut no state may ship 'MkoM-t borders anything that will MBijuriwi to tho people of the contigflp atiwH Adulterated, mlsbrandcd oBbkwniwe or deleterious foods, drugsMBk HcHwa or liquors arc barred by thfffifcw law Secretary -Wilson has mado jwMKkt" MNh gress in' framing regulanaw tmiliei ready to apply the law bufciJilyiatjO )the scope of the new lawltacUMMf anu Tulfngsi during the1 tiext lvfH months. Tho now law will coPM every manufacturer to put a labcHfJ packages of food or drink exprcslVy in plain terms what it consists of. TlJ, 1 requirement will be inforced to ( letter. Distillers nre in a terrible stOffl over tho now law. They want to put what they call "neutral spirits" in their whiskey. Pure whiskey costs ubout four dollars a gallon but after it is "neutralized" or adulterated on article adjusted potablo and too familiar to millions of Americans, costs only a dollar and ten cents a gallon. It is n curious fact Unit tho dollar and ten cents Btulf tastes moro like puro whiskey whis-key thnn the real thing. After this date all whiskey bottles that do not tell precisely the constituents of the llpuid, by n label pasted conspicuously on tho outside will bo unlawful. |