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Show THE PURE FOOD SITUATION. HHi ? B THE editor of the National Food jffoo j 1 Magazine, who was one of the ImHH 1 first to begin the agitation for VifTK!o H pure food laws, now takes sharp issue with Dr. Wiley, whom It has praised -3l$&r and supported hitherto, because he Htw 1 prefers Wil3on to Roosevelt. The Na- rft flP tional Food Magazine comes out vig- JbLLZli B orously for the Progressive candidate. liiirarniiriini M "Pure food advocates never had a 'iffragagjBggl better friend than the party's no mi- fl38HB" nee, Theodore Roosevelt," says this ''IHMP H advocate. "He it was who compelled IHHHk ! the enactment ot the national food pjmSSaSa B law. Ho it was who caused tho en- 9ZtfMriiir I actment of the meat inspection law. IkM fl He it was who began the invostiga- tMfc H tions which led to the discvovdry of ImMwv H the revolting conditions in food mami- jKtttfL H facturlng and caused a national clean- H H up. For fourteen years the people IH had clamored for a national food law, H and every effort toward its adoption D ( met With failure until Theodore Roose- Hj volt became president. He got' out H his big stick and demanded that con- H gross pass such a law. Pie recom- H mended the law in his message to con- 1 gress, and he pulled off his coat and H worked l'o it in person. By his ac- H tivity in is light he brought down H on his head the lasting hatred of all H the food adulterators in America. Un- H til this day no name is more abhorrent H to them than that of Theodore lloose- H velt. And that organization of food H adulterators is one of the most power- H ful political influences the country H has ever hack to deal with. It has H openly defied the national and state B ' governments for a quarter of a con- H tury. The enormous profits it realizes H from the processes of imitation and H ' adulteration permit it to have a H mighty barrel to spend in influencing H legislation." IB This barrel will now be used freely E to defeat Oolonel Roosevelt, declares m the National Food Magazine, a sug- H gostion worth following up at Progres- M sive headquarters. The record of the H Taft administration, including the res- H " ignation of Wiley, the support of Wtl- JH son and MeCabe, etc., shows where rH the manufacturers of fraudulent foods H and drugs will direct their influence H and their power is huge. It should be B ' corrected by publicity. |