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Show ORGANIZE AMERICAN PARTY TO FIGHT CHURCH CONTROL Citizens in Mass Meeting Take Firm and Drastic Action to Get Square Deal. The old American party has been brought to life. Citizens condemnIn politics ing church interference met at the Orpheum theatre Thursday night and the party was organized. Joseph E. Galigher, for mayor, George N. Lawrence and Parley L. Williams for city commissioners, is the ticket indorsed at the mass meet: ing for this falls election. A plat-fo- r mwas read pledging .the candidates if elected to a business administration and the consequent reduction of taxation. This is the third time in the history of this city that there has been a break n poltics to separate church and state. The real break came last fall when Ileber J. .Grant, presdent of the Mormon church, and the Ministerial association indorsed Benjamin It. .Harries for sheriff, notwithstanding that the Democratic and Republican parties had a complete ticket in the field. Harries ran on an independent ticket. The churchs influence was felt when the votes were counted. It was then decided that a new party had to be organized to combat church in politcs . The leaders in this movement say that they are in the fight to a finish this time. It is tlieir opinion that Salt Lake City should be the largest city in the west, but because of church influence capital has been kept away from here and most of our wealthy men are leaving the state because they detest church interference in politics and business. From now on the world is invited to come in and get a square deal. In fact it is reported that many will return and others will come in to help the local people who are opposed to church interference to wage a successful fight in the interests of the city. We dont care what your religion is, but dont take it into business and politics, say the leaders, and everything will be lovely. . . Herbert R. Macmillan and H. C. Allen, were the acting chairmen of the meeting, and they made bitter attacks upon the leaders of the Mormon church because of their exercising ecclesiastical influence in INJURIOUS PRESERVATIVES NOT BARRED BY OUR LAWS Board Allows Use of Benzoate of Soda and Sulphqr Dioxide by Canners. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, for many years chief of the bureau of chemistry in the United States agricultural department, and who is now conducting the bureau of foods, sanitation and health for Good Housekeeping, gives some facts concerning pure foods in the Dearborn Independent. Have you heard anything about Of course not. pure food lately? We Americans are satisfied with the shouting of protests and the promises of reform. We have no follow up system. None of the great progressive slogans of the past fifteen years have gone beyond the slogan stage. Promises were made, new jobs created, and there it ended. In this article Dr. Wiley tells how the great protest against impure food has gone for nothing. The people confidently turn the supposedly settled matter over to their hired officials, and then the officials do as the interests desire. The people have no follow up system. This article is in the nature of a follow up. The principal points in which the goods effects expected from the food and drugs act have been missed, are as follows: Benzoate of Soda. First: The endorsement of the use of benzoate of soda in foods. This endorsement came about by President-Roosevel- ordering the secretary of agriculture to appoint a board of consulting scientific experts, whose opinions were to take precedence of the decisions of the bureau of chemistry. This body was commonly known as the Ramsen board because Dr. Reinsen of the Johns Hopkins university, was its president. This board reviewed the work done by the bureau of chemistry on benzoate of soda and reversed all the decisions which the bureau of chemistry had arrived at in regard to the harmfulness of this article. As a result of their findings, a food inspection decision was published, permitting and. justifying the use of benzoate of soda in food products. Fortunately, the public had been so educated in regard to the harmfulness of a preservative of this mankind that none of the high-grad- e ufacturers have ever taken advantage matters. of this indulgence. It is a rare thing W. W Ray, Herbert R. Macmillan at the present time to find benzoate L. F. Adamson, Judge E. A. Rogers of soda in catsup. The only place and Judge James W. McKinney prepared the platform fpr the new party. where it is likely.to.be found generally is in cider. The prohibition comAmong some of the prominent citizens seated on the stage, were the missioner suggests benzoate of soda three candidates of the American as one of the means of keeping apple party, Mr. Galigher for mayor, Mr. juice sweet. He forgets, or probably never knew, that benzoate of soda Williams and Mr. .Lawrence for commissioners. Among others seated on is far more injurious to the health the stage were Ernest Bamberger, of the drinker than the amount of alcohol which would naturally be deformer Republican candidate for senator; Clarence Bamberger, Ruel G. veloped in cider if left to itself would cause. So long as benzoate of soda Halloran, A. B. Fisher, W. Mont Feris permitted as a preservative in ry, L. F. Adamson, Judge E. A. Rog ers, Judge James N. Kimball, William' eider, - it will be a menace to the pubH. Sowles, Francis B Critchlow and lic. health whenever drunk. The cat- J. J. Burke. sup which is now made is very much po-pitic- al i t better than the catsup which was preserved by benzoate of soda. Public opinion has practically put the use of benzoate of soda out old-fashion- ed of commission, and I hope the prohibition commissioner will some day see the error of his decision and require that cider which is to be pre- served without fermentation should be sterilized just as grape juice is today. Sulphur Dioxide. Second: When the Remsen board was appointed, the results of the experiments of the bureau of chemistry with sulphur diozide in food products, which showed that this ' article was injurious to health, were countermand- and the manufacturers of syrups and other food bodies, such as dried apples and peaches, were permitted to use as much sulphur dioxide as they cared to. The Remsen board wrestled many years with the question of sulphur dioxide and spent tens of thousands of dollars appropriated for execution of the food law but failed to come to any unanimous deed, cision. Meanwhile, the order per- mitting the use of sulphur dioxide in food products has remained unchanged and it is, therefore , commonly found now in all molasses made in the United States, and in nearly all dried fruits, a continual menace to the health and prosperity of our citizens. Third: The Ramsen board also investigated the relative unwholesomeness of alum baking powders as compared to baking powders made with tartrates and phosphates. They came to the curious decision that alum baking powders were no more unwholesome than tartrate and phosphate This was damning alum praise, as the only logical is that the Ramsen board baking powders unwholeOne of the most impossible some. deductions was made by the board from this, namely, that as alum baking powders were no more unwholesome than other baking powders, therefore, alum might be used in food products, especially in pickles. Fortunately, public sentiment which believes that alum is what it is well known to be, a poisonous substance, has not permitted a very wide extension of this indulgence. It is interesting, however, to see to what length debasement of the food law has been interference jbirought by executive with the law itself. Bleached Flour. Fourth: Under the food law the government won its suit against bleached flour and coco cola. In spite of this victory, however, no attempt has been made by the officials executing the law to restrict interstate commerce either in coca cola or in bleached flour. Such restrictions as do exist are found only In the state laws. A few states forbid the manufacture or sale of bleached flour within their limits, but I believe no state has passed any legislation against coca cola. These two threats to the pocketbook and health of our people, and especially of our children, still powders. with faint conclusion found all are under an executive restriction although under the act itself both have been condemned as injurious to health and as being misbranded. Other ways in which the adininis- - & tration of the food law has been weakened are found in the changes in the standards, especially in dairy products. The standard for evaporated milk has been reduced from 28 per cent of total solids to, 25 per cent, whereas the standards for evaporated milk in England require 31 per cent of total solids. The standard for butter fat which required 82.5 per cent of butter fat and not more than 16 per cent of water has been changed by act of congress in elimi- nating all reference to water and fix- ing the standard of butter fat at 80 per cent. Full advantage will be taken of this act of congress. It is evident that hereafter the mazimum content of butter fat will not exceed 80 per cent. Before the enactment of the law, the average content of butter fat was 85 per cent. Congress passed a law which has never yet been repealed, limiting the amount of water in butter to 12 per cent. By selling five pounds more of materials that are not butter fat to the consumers of this country, the additional charge for our butter will be about $40,000,000 a year. It is unfortunate that not only have the officials who have charge of the enforcement of the act failed to function under the old slogan of deciding every doubtful point in favor of the consumer, but have placed themselves under the banner of deciding every debated point in favor of the manu facturer. Congress has now fallen into the same category, and the last act on standards of butter was taken solely in the interests of those who manufacture butter and not in the interest of the great American people, every one of whom is a consumer. MINERS LEAVING CORNWALL. The Wallace Miner says that Cornish miners are coming to the United States in large numbers, one party of twenty-nin- e experienced men from the tin mines arriving recently to seek employment in the mines of this country. They are coming principally from the Bedruth and Camborne dis-tricts of oCrnwall. They state that a bad slump in the Cornish tin industry has forced many mines there to close down and that unemployment is acute. Knowing of the demand for skilled miners in this country with better living and working conditions, a large number have decided to come to this country and the new arrivals predicted they would be followed by many more, as fast as the immigration restrictoins will permit. The Cornish miners arq skilled, steady and reliable, and the men now coming in are aO welcome addition to underground forces. Q The most curious man we ever knew bought a century plant just to see if it really only bloomed every hundred years. Boston Traveler. |