94: TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Mr. Budlong — Have chemists found that there is always some- 

 thing injurious in the white wine vinegar? 



Mr. Bryant — I do not know that there is anything injurious in 

 white wine vinegars, if they are properly made, but what we want 

 is a law to see that all vinegars are properly made. 



Mr. Williams, of St. Louis — The question of strength can easily 

 be tested by the user; can the user also readily detect the sul- 

 phuric acid? 



Mr. Bryant — I suppose you can readily obtain the chlorate of 

 barium at any drug store. The test is easily made with it. 



Mr. Webster — I think it would be well for this Society to 

 recommend to the Legislature the desirability of a law to protect 

 us against spurious vinegars. I therefore make a motion to 

 recommend the enactment of a vinegar law to prevent the manu- 

 facture and sale of sulphuric acid vinegars. 



Mr. Leeper — These recommendations have been before the So- 

 ciety before, but we want to get this question before the people. 

 Everyone who knows anything about it knows that nine-tenths of 

 the vinegar sold by the groceries as cider vinegar is not cider 

 vinegar at all. 



Prof. Ragan — That was a valuable paper, both from a sanitary 

 and an economic standpoint. We know that people buy these 

 compounds in the market because they are cheaper. I am glad 

 that .the question has come up and hope that your laws may be so 

 amended as to be fully operative and benefit us all. 



Mr. Hay — I want to say that I am down on all new laws. I 

 know that our tobacco laws have made many boys want to smoke, 

 and I know that many of the whisky laws have made men take to 

 drinking. I am in for the enforcement of what laws we have, but 

 I don't want any new ones. 



Mr. Patterson — I know people of w r hom I asked ten cents a 

 gallon for good cider vinegar, and they just laughed at me be- 

 cause they said they could get good vinegar for five cents a gallon. 



Mr. Budlong — I have heard the remark made that this question 

 has come before the Legislature several times and has been re- 

 ferred to a committee and gone no further. I desire to say that 

 one reason why it has gone no further is that the farming com- 



