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Show NEW FOOD LAW I People now demand tho right to know exactly whnt they eat. To bo told by muker or retnller that tlw food Is "piiro" Is not satisfactory. Candy may contnln "pure" whlto clay or "pure" dyes and yet be very harmful. Syrups may contain "pure" glticoso nnd yet be quite dlgestlblo nnd oven beneficial. Tomato catsup may contnln a smnll nmount of salicylic or bornclc acid as a necessary preservative, preserva-tive, which may ngreo with ono nnd be harmful to another. Wheat flour may contnln a portion of corn flour and really bo Improved. Olive oil may be mado of cotton seed oil. Butter may contain beef suet and yet bo nutritious. Tho person who buys and cats must protect himself nnd family, and he has a right to. and now demands, a law undor which he can make Intelligent selection of food. Many pure food bills havo been Introduced In-troduced and somo passed by Stato legislatures; leg-islatures; many have been offered to Congress, but all thus far seem objectionable. objec-tionable. It has seemed difficult for politicians to formulato a satisfactory bill that would protect tho common people and yet avoid harm to honest makers and prevent endless trouble to retailers. No gov't commission or officer has tho right to fix "food standards," to deflno what the people shall and shall not cat, for what agrees with one may not agree with another, and such act would deprive tho common citizen of his personal liberty. The Postum Coreal Co., Ltd., porhaps tho largest makers of prepared foods In tho world, havo naturally a closo knowledgo of tho needs of the people nnd tho details of tho business of tho purveyors (tho ro-t ro-t 1 grocer), nnd, guided by this experience experi-ence havo prepared a bill for submission submis-sion to Congress which Is Intended to accomplish the desired ends, and Inasmuch Inas-much as o citizen of tho U. S. has n right to food protection even when ho enters another State, It Is deemed propor that the gov't toko control of this matter and provldo a national law to govern nil the states. A copy of tho bill Is herewith reproduced. Sec. 1 governs the maker whothor the food Is put up In smnll packages scaled, or In barrels, boxes or otherwise. other-wise. Sec. 2 govorns tho retailor who may open a barrel and sell tho food In small quantities. When ho puts tho goods Into a paper bag ho must also lncloso a prlntod copy of the statement of the maker which was affixed to tho original pkg., and inasmuch as tho retailor cannot undertake to guarantee tho statement of Ingredients he must publish tho statement of the makers and add his own name and address as a guarantoo 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 tho maker, wbero It properly belongs. be-longs. Tho remaining sections explain them, selves. Tho Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., for example, ex-ample, havo from the beginning of its existence prlntod on the outside of each and every pkg. of Postum and Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts food a truthful and exact statement state-ment of what tho contents were made of In order that tho consumer might know precisely what he or she was eating. A person desiring to buy, for Instance, strictly pure fruit Jelly and willing to pay tho prlco has a right to expect not only nn oqulvalent for tho costPbut a further right to a certainty as to. what ho cats. Or ho may bo willing will-ing to buy at less cost a Jelly mado part of fruit Juices, sugar and a por tion oi glucose, mil no must do supplied sup-plied with truthful Information of tho Ingrodlents nnd be permitted to use his pursonal liberty to select his own food accurately. Tho people havo allowed the slow murder of Infants nnd adults by tricky makors of food, drink and drugs to go on nbout long enough. Duty to oneself, family and nation demands that every man and woman Join in an organized movement to clear our people from this blight. You may not bo ablo to go personally to Washington to Impress your Congressmen, but you can, In a most effective wny tell him by letter how you desire him to represont you. Remember tho Congressman Is In Congress to represent tho people from his district and' If a goodly number of cltlzons oxpreBs tholr views to htm, he secures a very suro guldo to duty. Re-mcmbor Re-mcmbor also that the safety of tho people Is assured by Insisting that the will ot tho people bo carried out, and not the machinations of tbo few for solfish Interests. This piiro food legislation Is a pure movement of the people for public protection. pro-tection. It will bo opposed only by thoso who fatten their pockets by deceiving de-ceiving and Injuring tbo people. Thero-foro, Thero-foro, If your Representative in Congress Con-gress evades his' patriotic duty hold him to Btrlct accountability, and if necessary demand equltablo and honest hon-est servlco"! This Is a very different condition than when a faction demands class legislation of tho Congressman. Several years ago the buttor Interests ot tho country demanded legislation to kill the olcomargarlno Industry and by power ot organization forced class legislation leg-islation really unworthy of a free people peo-ple Work people wantod beef suet butter because it was cheap and better than much unclean milk butter, but the dairy Interests organised ind forced the legislation. The law should havo provided that pkgs. ot oleomargarine bear the statoment of Ingredients and then let peoplo who desire purduae It for Just what It Is, and not try to kill it by a heavy tnx. Manufacturers sometimes some-times try to force measures In their own Interests, but contrary to tho Interests In-terests of tho peoplo and the labor trust Is always active to push through bills drafted In the Interest of that trust but directly contrary to tho Interests In-terests of the people ns a whole Witness Wit-ness tho anti-Injunction bill by which labor unions seek to tie the hnnds of our courts nnd prevent tho (hjsuo of any order to restrain the members of that trust from attacking men or' do-, stroylng property. Such n bill Is perhaps per-haps tho most Infamous Insult to our courts atid the Common dcodIo ever laid beforo Congress and the Representatives Represen-tatives In Congress must bo hold to a strict accountability for their acts relating re-lating thereto. But when bills come before Congress that are drawn In tho Interests of nil the peoplo they should recelvo the active personal support of tho people and the representatives bo Instructed by the cltlzons. Tho Senators Sena-tors also should bo written to and Instructed. In-structed. If, therefore, you will remember re-member your privilege and duty you will at once now write to your Congressman Con-gressman and Senator on this puro food bill. Clip and enclose the copy herewith presented and ask them to make a business of following It through tho commltteo considering 1L Urge Its being brought to a voto and requesting re-questing thnt they voto for It. Somo oppressively Intelligent and carping critic may say this Is simply jH nn advertisement for Postum and VbbbbI Grape-Nuts. It Is true that thcso ar- BH tides aro spoken of hero In a publla KssH manner, but they arc used as lllustra IjH tlons of a manufacturer seeking by cxumple, printing on each pkg. a truth 11 fill, exact statement of Ingredients, to EIH shame other makers into doing the Bl fair thing by tho common peoplo, nnd Kl establishing an crn of pure food, but 11 that procedure has not yet forced those IsbbbI who ndulterato and deceive to change IH their methods, henco this effort to 11 arouso public sentiment and show a ffl wny out of the present condition of Vl fraud, deceit and harm. I' Tho undersigned is paying to the 1 publishers ot America about J20.000.00 I H to print this announcement In practl I; cally all of tho great papers and maga 1 zlnes, In tho conduct of what be ffl chaoses to term "an educational cam- . I H palgn," esteemed to be of greater dl 4 &r fl rect value to tbo people than the estab- ft llshmcnt of many libraries. That la HH held to bo a worthy method of using money for the public good. Tell the WsbbI people faets. show them n way to help 11 themselves and rely upon them to act EaH Intelligently and effectively. The reuder will be freely forgiven It L.H he entirely forgets tho reference to Kl Postum and Grape-Nuts, It ho will but WM Join tho puro food movement and 11 do things. C. W, POST. H |