Show T PUKE FOOD ACT Government Inspectors In at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York have seized twelve tons of ot dessl eggs shipped from Chicago dO de declaring daring claring them unfit for human food Only a day or two ago a federal Jury declared that bleached flour was adulterated 41 and It has been beon barred from Crom interstate commerce com These cases in addition to the action ac action action tion previously taken by the govern goern government government ment ought to furnish conclusive proof that tho the law Jaw to is going to be bo en enforced enforced forced in the future futuro as It has been beon ever over since Ince It was enacted In the hurry to get rich there has been buen entirely too much adulteration of or both food and drugs Mon Man have refused to listen to the dictates of or conscience and have grasped gra ped the dirty dollars regardless of or tho fact that tho the articles of or food or medicine furnished by them thom might cause causo sick sickness ness neos or death tUt We V regard the tho pure food and drug law a as one of or the wisest acts of leg Jeg legislation lon over ever W put pat open apen the tho statute booM books from every point of r view It has taken narcotics out ef of C tho patent medicines medicine and poisonous coloring matter out of ef many articles of food and anti the honest m manufacturer to is 1 given an opportunity to profit by 1 reason of his honesty Tho The t tons tans n of or frollen or doe dos eggs above mentioned mere seized zed at the Kings County Refrigerating aUng plant at Brooklyn It will be remembered that tho the special clad cial Senate committee appointed to Investigate the high prices of or food in its It report repert charged that the tho cold stor storage storage age Rge companies deserved a share of or ortho tho the blame There Thero is a case anso in point The thousands of f dozens dozen of eggs contained contain in the twelve tons ton seized were cold storage tora eggs They were bought up tor for the purpose of controlling g the market markot aad and keeping the prices es up When they Ute could no MO longer be off oU as fresh r ranch eggs they were re from fro a and aad sold In bulk to make a market for other eggs egg controlled by bythe bythe bythe the trust that were ere not quite quit so stale And AIM top figures figure were charged charS The Senate committee was right in InI It I Its accusation against 8 the tha th cold storage companies com paRies They do have tho effect of oC raking raising prices price to an AI abnormal fig figure figure ure and keeping then thoa there Perhaps those these men will be bo taught a needed loosen lesson after a few hundred thousand dollars dollan worth Orth of Or their stale Mal products have kave boon been eon destroyed Another credit mark for the de department department department ef ot Justice in this particular Instance |