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honest and reputable business, and that not all of the manufacturers 

 and packers resort to low and dishonorable means to accumulate 

 riches rapidly. The class of mercantile gentlemen above referred 

 to are in hearly sympathy with the pure food laws, as it is only 

 when the disreputable and unfair rivals are detected and exposed 

 that the honorable merchant will be able to establish his own inter- 

 ests to the best advantage. For all of such friendly cooperation 

 received, especial acknowledgment is hereby freely tendered. 



PUBLICITY A VALUABLE FACTOR. 



The Commissioner is still of the opinion that more was accom 

 plished in enforcing the pure food laws in Pennsylvania by the 

 publication of the "Monthly Bulletin," with its plain and unbiased 

 facts, than could possibly have been accomplished by the mere im- 

 posiiion of nominal fines. This system of publicity is again com- 

 mended for your consideration and endorsement. If a manufac- 

 tuTcr will persist in adulterating his products, and in consequence 

 be compelled to pay tines and costs, there can be no more effective 

 v/ay to force him out of the Pennsylvania market than by the well- 

 tried plan of publicity. The seizure and forfeiture of illegal goods, 

 if permissible, could not prove a more successful remedy. The 

 combined free advertising of pure food law violations given in the 

 ''Monthly Bulletin," together with the columns of the local press 

 makes the proposition such a formidable one that a change for the 

 better must speedily follow. 



LOYALTY OF PENNSYLVANIA'S SENATORS. 



A most satisfactory and encouraging condition is made manifest 

 in the public declaration that our United States Senators, Hon. 

 Boies Penrose and Hon. P. C. Knox, representing the Commonwealth 

 of Pennsylvania, will oppose the attempt to repeal the ''Grout Bill," 

 and that their voice, vote and work will be largely seconded by their 

 Pennsylvania colleagues in the lower House of Congress. As views 

 upon economic problems often differ, this united and spontaneous 

 support of the dairymen and farmers' interests is especially praise- 

 worthy. His Excellency, Governor Pennypacker, has also expressed 

 himself as being strongly opposed to any interference with the 

 "Grout Bill" as it now stands on the statutes. The position of Penn- 

 sylvania is therefore not uncertain. 



The press and the public, generally, so far as Pennsylvania is con- 

 cerned, are also a unit in opposing the attempt to injure the dairy 

 interests of the Commonwealth, and the attitude of the Grange 

 Farmers' Alliance, Dairymen's Association, agricultural societies, and 

 kindred organizations has been made manifest in terms that cannot 

 be misconstrued. 



SO-CALLED "RULINGS" AND "OPINIONS." 



As there cannot be any legal or moral reasons for formulating 

 "rulings" or "opinions" in contradiction of the various Acts of As- 

 sembly placed under the administration of the Dairy and Food Com- 

 missioner for enforcement, and also because a code of so-called for- 

 mer "rulings" was annulled, numerous correspondents continue per- 

 sistent in urging the propriety and legality of again formulating such 

 "rulings" as might best suit the individual requirements. When 



