Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — MACVEAGH PRODUCTS ARE CALLED IMPURE [ARTICLE]

MACVEAGH PRODUCTS ARE CALLED IMPURE

Wisconsin Legislator Says Harsh Things of Cabinet Member. Madison, Wis., May 7.—Speaker Bancroft, in a speech before the Wisconsin assembly advocating better pure food laws, charged the Franklin MacVeagh company, of which the present secretary of the treasury is the head, with adulterating food products. Picking up a bottle of lemon extract made and sold by the MacVeagh company, the speaker charged it did not contain a drop of lemon, but consisted almost entirely of wood alcohol. A bottle of raspberry jam, Speaker Bancroft said, was composed mostly of glucose and hay seed. A bottle of port wine exhibited, Bancroft said, was made of glucose, coal tar and benzoate of soda. Bancroft said: "The present secretary of the United States treasury ,is a man of financial ability, because he has succeeded in making $1,000,000 by cheating the American people with adulte foods.” Try The Democrat for job work.