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Show WHY HE WANTED LAW. Man Had to Be Forced Into Paths of Righteousness. Congressman James E. Watson of tho Sixth Indiana district told a story while In town recently, ancnt tho operation op-eration of tho puro food law, and In. tended to lllustrato his expressed theory that moro pooplo would bo good If they hnd to be. "It was while wo woro wrestling with tho puro food bill at Washington," Washing-ton," ho said, "that I got a letter from home, written by n man from whom I bought a big quantity of maple sirup each year. Ho urged mo to fight for the puro food bill. Now, I couldn't help remembering, to savo my lite, that this man bought flvo barrels of brown sugar at tho opening of tho maplo molasses season. So I wroto blm a noto suggesting that advocacy of a puro food mcasuro seemed odd from n man who bought five barrols of brown sugar boforo beginning tho manufacture of his puro maplo sirup. "Never fcazed him. Ho turned my letter over und wroto on tho back; 'I know It, but I want tho law to mako tqo do right' " IndlanapollB News. |