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We make wines in this country, in New York and Ohio, 

 and especially in California. Now, I don't know what 3'our 

 views are in res^ard to wine drinkino:, — that is something 

 I have nothing to do with. I like good wine myself, and 

 drink it when I can get it, especially if somebody else pays 

 for it ; but when I am drinking wine, I want to know I am 

 drinking wine. That is a reasonable view, that any one 

 might have. I don't want to drink any concoction, I want 

 the real thing. And we find imported into this country 

 large quantities of Avine which is not of that quality. We 

 find wine which contains enough sulphurous acid almost to 

 make you ill, in a single case, put there for the purpose of 

 preserving the wine. 



A short time ago I went out to dinner — I have a few 

 friends who happen to be wealthy, and I wish I had more, 

 l)ecause they always give good dinners, and they invite me ; 

 it seems I am a professional diner. The gentleman said to 

 me, " My wife has been drinking wine, and it always makes 

 her ill; I w^onder what is the trouble with it?" He sent 

 down in the cellar and got a bottle. I told him I thought 

 it impossible that the wine made her ill. I opened the 

 bottle, and I knew at once what the matter was. Instead of 

 wine, he had a solution of sulphurous acid. The fumes 

 of burning sulphur are familiar to you all. Instead of the 

 beautiful odor of \vine, we got a sulphurous odor. It wasn't 

 difiicult to tell in this case. But Ave say the Avine shouldn't 

 be made AA'ith this injurious substance, detrimental to the 

 health, and it shouldn't be imported into this countr}^ not 

 only in justice to our consumers, but in justice to our 

 farmers Avho grow grapes and make Avine therefrom. They 

 should have protection against a fictitious or injurious ar- 

 ticle imported from a foreign countrj-. 



Another article is sausage. We have Deerfoot sausage 

 in this country, and a \^ery good sausage it is, too ; and 

 many other kinds ; and avc used to import a great deal of 

 sausage. We found that Germany Avas sending us sausage 

 which they Avouldn't allow to be consumed at home, l)ut 

 according to laAv it can't come in now, for it contains borax. 

 The manufacturer makes it Avithout borax, but Avhcn he 



