| Show ANOTHER FOND DELUSION GONE And now monies conies o Ii the pure pure ure food com commission coni cani mission and shatters another delusion r In a hearing held at Louisville the commission met the makers of what has been called ice cream until recent recently recently ly h These manufacturers came from Pittsburg Pittsburgh Chicago and the west gen generally generally and they discussed the ingredients of their product with a freedom fre o that was surprising not to say appall appalling appallIng appalling ing Among other things they argued for lor the right to use a gelatine made from South American hides gum which is used extensively for newspaper paste and other articles not of diet eggs of ofa a more or less un uty uncertain certain age and vand condition milk not cream of 8 per cent butter fat sorn starch and natural flavoring substances Imagine the tle sweet young girls emotion when she contemplates the consumption of newspaper paste the essence of rancid ra cid hides over overdue overdue overdue due eggs and a little butter fat frozen and touched tou hed up with Ha substances Can loves young dream be nourished on that sort of diet Is there any show at all for the of fine feelings and flowery speech on glue frappe the end f the republic in plain view when the youth of the land is confronted with such a soulless game as ass these makers of confections are trying to put up the palladium of r all aH our liberties berries menaced when the stroll stroH of or a summer night has to end in a delirium of or corn cornstarch cornstarch starch gum and glue trav traveling traveling traveling eling under an alias of ice cream But this is not all the Infamy my by the pure food tood commission in Kentucky In Investigation Investigation ion there proves that the moun mountain mountain tain dew we had supposed came from corn com flavored with sunshine and ripened in musty old cellars or in voy voyages voyages voyages ages around the Horn is only what the Kentuckians themselves call c H cookin whisky rectified and blended and electrified and doctored until a real colonel would sooner think of or drinking water ater than of endangering his life liCe with the stuff It seems that the real goods is sel seldom seldom seldom dom sent outside the state being in large arge demand at home where it is appreciated ap appreciated appreciated but but that the blended article yields a large profit on sale to aliens in inthe inthe inthe the north who dont know the differ difference difference difference ence between say a real bourbon and anda n a dyed moonshine blend Yet the blenders and their allies insist that they ought to be lye exempt from the pure food laws aws operation and not be compelled to label Jabel their product for what it is isIf IsI isIf If I that tha indictable nerve it ought to be Kentuckians themselves ought to see to It that the fair name of the state and the reputation of or its chief product are protected by rigid enforce enforcement enforcement enforcement ment of or the law Not only ought the rectified goods broods be labeled but they ought to have a deaths head and cross crossbones crossbones crossbones bones about a R foot square on every package to indicate ate the dangers of the poison polson and give ghe the consumer a chance to prepare for his end when he drinks tt Happ Happily ily IY for the future of the nation the commission cot is obdurate and insists on th f correct labeling of Iced milk and glue of rectified whisky blended After Jan 1 the girl who lets her er suitor buy this patent Ice cream cre m will do if it at her own risk with a full knowledge of the th danger she incurs and the man who forfeits his life insurance by imbibing the blended booze known in the west as cannot plead ignorance In defense of his crime I Truly the he pure food law lay is isa a great Boon and the commission c lo i must be composed of or real patriots |
