Show people now demand the right to know exact what they eat to be told by maker or retailer that the food Is pare Is not candy may contain pure white clay or pure des and yet be ery harmful syrups may contain pure glucose and yet be quite digestible and even tomato catsup may contain a small amount of salicylic or acid as a necessary preserve pre serva alve whim may agree with one and be harmful to another wheat flour may contain a portion of corn flour and really be improved olive oil may be made of cotton seed oil butter may contain beet suet and yet be nutritious the person who buys and eats must protect himself and family and he has a right to and now demands a law under which he can make intelligent selection of food many pure food bills have been in produced trod and u passed by state leg Isla tures many have been offered to congress but all thus far seem object tio it has seemed difficult for politicians to formulate a satisfactory bill that would protect the common people and yet arld harm to honest makers and prevent endless trouble to retailers no gov t commission or officer has the right to fix food standards to define what the people shall and shall not eat for what agrees with one may not agree with another and such act would deprive the common citizen of his personal liberty the cereal co ltd perhaps the largest makers of prepared foods in the world have naturally a close knowledge of the needs of the people and the details of the business of the purveyors the re tall grocer and guided by this expert ence have prepared a bill for slon to congress which is intended to accomplish the desired ends and inas much as a citizen of the U S has a right to food protection even when he enters another state it is deemed proper that the gov t take control of this matter and provide a national law to govern all the states A copy of the bill Is herewith reproduced 1 governs the maker whether the food is put up in small packages sealed or in barrels boxes or other wise sec 2 governs the retailer who may open a barrel and sell the food in small quantities when he puts the goods into a paper bag he must also a printed copy of the statement of the maker which was affixed to the original and inasmuch as the retailer cannot undertake to guarantee the statement of ingredients he must publish the statement of the makers and add his own name and address as a guarantee of his selling the food as it Is represented to him which relieves the retailer of responsibility of the truth of the statement and throws it upon the maker where it properly be longs the remaining sections explain them selves the cereal co ltd for ex ample have from the beginning of its existence printed on the outside of each and every of and grape nuts food a truthful and exact state ment of what the contents were made of in order that the consumer might know precisely what he or she was eating A person desiring to buy tor instance strictly pure fruit jelly and willing to pay the price has a right to expect not only an equivalent tor the cost but a further right to a certainty as to what he eats or he may be will ing to buy at less cost a jelly made part of fruit juices sugar and a por alon of glucose but he must be sup plied with truthful information of the ingredients and be permitted to use his personal liberty to select his own food accurately the people have allowed the slow marder of infants and adults by tricky makers of food drink and drugs to go on about long enough duty to oneself family and nation demands that every man and woman join in an organized movement to dear our people from this blight you may not be able to go personally to washington to impress 5 our congressmen but you can in a most effective way tell him by letter how you desire him to represent you remember the congressman Is in congress to represent the people from his district and it a goodly number of citizens express their views to him he secures a very sure guide to duty re member also that the safety of the people Is assured by insisting that the will of the people be carried out and not the machinations of the few tor interests this pure food legislation is a pure movement of the people for public protection it will be opposed only by those who fatten their pockets by de ceiling and injuring the people there fore it your representative in con gress evades his patriotic duty hold him to strict accountability and if necessary demand equitable and hon est service this is a very different condition than when a faction demands class legislation of the congressman several years ago the but er interests of the country demanded legislation to kill the oleomargarine industry and by power of organization forced class leg Islat lon really unworthy of a free people work people wanted beet suet butter because it was cheap and better than much unclean milk butter but the dairy interests organized and forced the legislation the law should have provided that pigs of oleomargarine bear the statement of ingredients and then let people who desire purchase it tor just what it Is and not try to kill it by a heavy tax manufacturers some times try to force measures in their own interests but contrary to the in teresta of the people and the labor trust Is always active to push through balla dratted in the interest of that trust but directly contrary to the in teresta of the people as a whole wit ness the anti injunction bill by which labor unions seek to tie the hands of our courts and prevent the issue of any order to restrain the members of that from attacking men or de straying ying property such a bill Is per haps the most infamous insult to our courts and the common people ever laid before congress and the represent Re presen in congress must be held to a strict accountability for their acts re lating thereto but when balla come before congress that are drawn in the interests of all the people they should receive the active personal support of the people and the representatives be instructed by the citizens the sena tors also should be written to and in strutted ted if therefore you will re member your privilege and duty you will at once now write to your con gressman and senator on this pure food bill clip and enclose the copy herewith presented and ask them to make a business of following it through ohp committee considering it urge its being brought to a vote and requesting that they vote for it some oppressively intelligent and carping an grape nuts it asu tides are spoken of 8 manner but they are 91 alons of a manufacturer seekim example printing on each a truth I 1 tul exact statement of ingredients to shame other makers into doing the fair thing by the common people and establishing an era of pure food but that procedure has not yet forced those who adulterate and deceive to change their methods hence this effort to arouse public sentiment and show a way out of the present condition of fraud deceit and harm the undersigned Is paying to the publishers of america about 20 00 to print this announcement in cally all of the great papers and maga in the conduct of what he chooses to term an lonal cam laign esteemed to be of greater dl value to the people than the of many libraries that held to be a worthy method of using money tor the public good tell the people facts show them a way to help themselves and rely upon them to act intelligently and effective a reader will be freely forgiven it he entirely forgets the reference to and grape nuts it he will but join the pure food movement and do things W POST text pure food it it maecs approval cut it out sign name and address and send to your representative in congress buy two or more publications from which you cut this keep one for reference and send the other to one of the U S senators from your state ask one or two friends to do the same and the chalcea tot pure food will be good A BILL TO REQUIRE manufacturers AND PERS OF FOODS FOR IN SHIPMENT TO label FOODS AND PRINT THE ingredients CONTAINED IN SUCH foode ON EACH PACKAGE THEREOF be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states ot america in congress assembled that every person farra or corpora alon engaged in the manufacture preparation or compounding of food tot human consumption shall print in plain view on each package thereof made state or territory or the district of colum by or tor them shipped from any bla a complete and accurate statement ot all the ingredients thereof defined by words in common use to describe said ingredients together with the announcement that said statement is made by the authority of and cuaran teed to be accurate by the makers of such food and the name and complete address of the makers shall be affixed thereto all printed in plain type of a size not less than that known as eight point and in the english language sec 2 that the covering of each and every package of manufactured prepared or compounded foods shipped from any state territory or the district of columbia when the tool in eald package ahall have been taken from a covering supplied by or tor the makers and re covered by or tor the sellers shall bear upon its face or within its enclosure an accurate copy of the statement of ingredients and name of the makers which appeared upon the package or covering of said food as supplied by or tor the makers thereof printed in like manner as the statement of the makers was printed and such statement shall also bear the name and address of the person firm or cor por atlon that re covered such food sec 3 that it shall be unlawful for an person or persons to purposely wilfully and maliciously remove alter obliterate or destroy such statement 0 appearing on packages of food as provided in the preceding sections and or persons who shall violate this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hund el dollars nor more than alve hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than one month nor more than six months or both in the discretion of the court sec 4 that the bureau of chemistry 0 the department of agriculture retail dealers and analyze or from shall procure or cause to be procured examined chemically microscopically or otherwise cause to be analyzed or amples of all manufactured prepared or compounded foods tor sale in original unbroken packages in the distrust ol 01 columbia in any territory or in adv state other than that in which they shall have been respectively manufactured or otherwise produced or from a foreign country or intended for export to a foreign country the secretary of agriculture shall make necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions ot this act and Is hereby authorized to employ such chemists inspectors clerks labor ers and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and to make such publication ot the results of the examinations and analysis he may deem proper and any manufacturer producer or dealer who shall refuse to supply upon application and tender and full payment of the selling price samples of such articles of food to any person duly authorized by the secretary of agriculture to receive the same stall conviction shall be fined not exceeding and be guilty of a misdemeanor upon one hundred days or both one hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding firm or corporation who shall violate sections sec that any person one and two ot this act shall be guilty ot a misdemeanor and upon condic alon shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first ottense and for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year or both in the discretion of the court sec 6 that any person firm or corporation who shall wilfully purposely or maliciously change or add to the ingredients ot any food make false charges or incorrect analysis with the purpose of subjecting the makers of uch foods to fine or imprisonment under this act shall be guilty of a mis fined not exceeding one thousand demeanor and upon conviction shall be dollars nor less than three hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than one year or both sec 7 that it shall be the duty of every district attorney to whom the secretary of agriculture shall report any violation of this act to cause pro ce edings to be commenced and prosecuted without delay tor the fines and penalties in such case provided sec 8 that this act sh jl not be construed to interfere with commerce wholly internal in any state nor with the exercise ot their police powers by the several states sec 9 that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby I 1 repealed sec 10 that this act shall be in force and effect from and after the first day ol 01 october nineteen hundred and six the undersigned respectfully requests the representatives from his dis brict and senators from his stat to support this measure signed ri city state |