EVILS AND
DESIGNS WHICH EXIST IN THE HEARTS OF CONSPIRING MEN IN THE LAST DAYS
Some of these evils and designs
are enumerated by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who was the first to head the Food and
Drug Administration:
“Many misleading statements
respecting the composition of foods, their nutritive value, and their relation
to health and digestion have been published and receive with more or less
credence by the public. Claims of superior excellence, which are entirely baseless,
are constantly made for certain food products in order to call the attention of
the public more directly to their value and, unfortunately, at times to mislead
the public with respect to their true worth.
Foods and
Their Adulteration, by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, p. 1
“For a third of century the fight
for pure food has been waged and the end is not yet. No great question is ever
settled until it is settled right. The game is not over until one or the other
of the contestants is checkmated. Draws do not count. During this third of a
century it has been my fortune to be in the thick of the fight, at first as a
private, then through the various grades of leadership to colonel or even
general of the brigade, and now again in the ranks. This battle has not however
been a fight of a personal character as some late historians assert. It was and
is a struggle for human rights as much as the Revolution or the Civil War. A
battle for the privilege of going free of robbery and with a guaranty of
health. It has been and is a fight for the individual right against the vested
interest, of the man against the dollar.
Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley
One Thousand and One Tests, p. 9
Evil designing and conspiring men
are made manifest also through tobacco trust which bribes many people to make misleading
and false statements in order to lure the public to smoking cigarettes and the
use of tobacco in general. Many such offers of bridges are available, as for
instance, Gene Tunney being offered $15,000 to endorse a certain brand of
cigarettes and another offer of $12,000 if he would permit his picture to be
sued with the statement that “Stinkies must be good because all my friends
smoke them,” and of a Metropolitan Opera tenor permitting his picture to be
placed on billboards with the declaration: “Gaspies Do Not Hurt My Throat” and
when confronted about this he exclaimed: “it is true, Gaspies never hurt my
throat—I don’t smoke.” (See the article written by Gene Tunney, in the Reader’s
Digest of December, 1941, entitled “Nicotine Knockout, or the Slow Count.” (N.B.
Lundwall, comp., Assorted Gems of Priceless Value [Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book, 1944],243-44)