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Show f WILEY TO BE I SUPPORTED 11 1 Wilson Will Stop Use of ml Benzoate of Soda Jl If Elected Ij-'i Sioux City, Iowa, SopL 17. Firm 1 Support o Dr. Harvoy Wilov in his Mi 'controversy over the pure food laws W of the country stood out prominent-It prominent-It ly in a speech by Governor Woodrow V j Wilson at tho Inter-Btate fair here to-J to-J ' day. The Democratic candidate drew 1 & attention to what he conceived to be A I the Ineffoctuality of boards of ox-3 ox-3 S perts such as the board of chemists Vm j. under the administration of President Al $ Roosevelt. He said it Is an lllustra--vf ' tion of his objection to a commission ? ft of board of exports to handle either M i tho tariff or the trust problems 0 the H The governor had an Immense au- jjtol 'diencc at the fair grounds. Ho spoke Mkji ifrom a high platform looking dlrect- fl ly at a niaes of humanity packed lu closely in a spacious grand stand. ijKI Close attention was given the speech -pyi ana cneers came quick aim snarp .11 "$ tho several points where tho gover-WMt gover-WMt nor punctured his utterances with Rp vigorous right arm gestures The ID i nominee voiced for the first time his ftS objection to the tariff board idea as ljjg contained in the Republican as well lKtf as the Progressive platform, declar-e"i?f declar-e"i?f lnS il wu'd mean "a postponement I of tariff legislation." The governor turned early in his - speech to the pure food question. "Everybody now suspects," said tho nominee, "and the suspicion is based Upon a groat many facts that can be established by proof that these pure food laws are not lived up to, that the inspection is not always what it ou,ht to be, and that a groat many things are permitted to be done which aulllfy the pure food laws. Gre3t Food Controversy. "I BUppose that most of you know that a great food controversy arose because Dr. Wiley, who was in charge of the pure food administration, ob-jocted ob-jocted to the uso of benzoate of soda In certain things that were sold to you, particularly in cans for food. Now a very nice thing occurred. Tho gentleman who wanted to use ben-xcate ben-xcate of soda, persuaded tho president. presi-dent. Mr. RooBevclt, that this was a scientific question and .therefore,, he ought to have a board of chemists 1 . to dotermlno it. And Mr. Roosevelt Sf; picked out some of the most eminent : and honest men in the country, hcad-11 hcad-11 n ! ed by a personal friend of mine, tho Ui president of Johns Hopkins univer-Wl univer-Wl Bty, and submitted to thorn this ! question, Is benzoate of soda hurtful "It : to the human stomach or to the hu- II man digestion when taken internal-1 internal-1 : ly?' Observe that was the only question ques-tion submitted to them and that was I ( exactly what the people who wanted It ' to use benzoate of soda for wrong r purposes wanted to limit tho inquiry J "Because those gentlemen had to l! sav that benzoate of soda In Itself was not harmful to the human sys-mk sys-mk tem, as I believe It is not. But they TEj , were not asked this question, 'can .1 benzoate of soda be used to conceal I! purification, can it be used in things I that have gone bad to conceal the . i : fact that they have gone bad, and "2 ; to induce people to put them In their Jp I stomachs after they havo gone bad?' ! Used In Bad Way. H) ; "They were not nsked that queB- i tion, bocause If they had been, they Ifi would have said, 'yes It can be used I ; in that way and Dr. Wiley knew that I S it was used In that way.' (j "I want to warn the people of this M country to beware of commissions of J? I experts. I hne lived with experts all I see anything except what is undor I f their mlscrope, under their eyes. I w "Suppose you wanted to settle the I I liquor question by asking a body of 3 jj experts whether alcohol was poison or 2jf tiot. I bolievo thoy would have to tell 2 you that h Isn't poison. But does that f tt settle the liquor question? There are If a great many things that you can Jl t take Into vour stomach that aro not 11 , poiBon mat win ro;iKti yuu i,,j 1 '-The tariff board knows what it knows. But it doesn't know what we 1 wnnt to know. It knows what It inquires in-quires into but It doeB not answer thiB question; 'Are tho present tariff duties in the United States suitable to tho present business conditions In ; the United States, and when the ; 1 1 third party proposes a permanent 1 body of experts, it proposes a permanent perma-nent postponement of tariff reduction." reduc-tion." Returning to the question of trusts, tho spoukor distinguished between "big business" and the trusts. He Teferred to the succeFS of Andrew Carnegie In the steel business and declared de-clared that when Mr Carnegie's competitors com-petitors found they could not undersell under-sell because ho had more brains In running their business, they bought I him out at four or five more times 5j ' the value of his property and mado JK ' us pay Interest on four or fiv3 times jgjl ' the amount of the value of the prop- I erty which they had paid him. I j For Bib Business. I j ; "There Is a difference between a I? bg business and a trust, A trust Is I ' R big business that has an arrange- I,. ment to get rid of a competition and j; ; a big business survives competition by conquering in tho field of intolli- ' gonce and oconomy. I am for big fl : buslnesi? aud against the trusts. M , "Now there are things that have CjfL to be regulated, but they aro not to jj ;i bo regulutcd through the trusts. Si :, Thoy are to bo regulated by those d processes now perfectly discoverable, j ' by which monopoly can be prevented IT K aDd broken un. TheBe mononollcB J that are to he made pormanent, if dh tho third party goes through, are the ijflfl ver5' things that aro limiting the field m $ of enterprise, limiting the market for ! labor, determining the wages of labor, determining tho dlstrlbutlou of products pro-ducts throughout the countrv. "Tho tentacles of these things spread in every direction and until we have broken their Inside control the government gov-ernment Is helpless to assist the pco-plo pco-plo through righteous proce3s of Judg- $ ment and of lav." i |