Uncle Sam and Columbia in search of pure food in their domain . ng- about in all the preceding- chapters. It simply showsthat the State of Michigan has proved by actual purchase and chem-ical tests, what we have learned by our own experience of overthirty-two years in the grocery business in Galesburg. We look uponthe adulteration of food, and the sale of goods under false labels andmisleading advertisements, as an abomination to every dealer whotries to conduct an honest business and an imposition and a swindle tothe consumer—put in its mildest form. And when food products areadulterate
Uncle Sam and Columbia in search of pure food in their domain . ng- about in all the preceding- chapters. It simply showsthat the State of Michigan has proved by actual purchase and chem-ical tests, what we have learned by our own experience of overthirty-two years in the grocery business in Galesburg. We look uponthe adulteration of food, and the sale of goods under false labels andmisleading advertisements, as an abomination to every dealer whotries to conduct an honest business and an imposition and a swindle tothe consumer—put in its mildest form. And when food products areadulterated with things detrimental to health, it becomes, if known(and every effort should be made to know), a downright crime, andshould be severely punished. We do not wish to convey the idea that we are theonly dealers who arefirst-classgoods undertrue manyotherswho aresellingthe bestgoods theycan buy. and will -^=~^£-^^^ y^n^^ V^%serve their (jrt&.vw Tavtcw T^t piaster J ftRS (I*, ALL r*,e Same ^o tfve yw^(, ~v<x~ -A lU.^). 20 CHEAPNESS vs. PURITY. patrons faithfully. Such merchants will agree with us in all we have written as far as they have investigated, but they have not, perhaps, given the matter as much thought and study. And yet we do maintain xi tS ^ ^oyy. and declare that many goods of a very low order, T^ CL many that are adulterated so that they are in- y\Cu -> a .jjk jurious to health : others that are falsely branded are being sold in Illinois and even in our own fair city, and in the majority of such cases the dealer knows it. We have a right to buy arsenic, if wewant to. and eat it. too, but the law providesthat we shall be protected, and no druggistwould dare sell it to us without putting on alabel telling us what it was, and that it waspoison. We should have the same protectionin the line of food. The label should showwhat it is. and when impure, the dealerjl0^ CftKf S Cll^^^ should be compelled to tell his customerwhen he se
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