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American food products have been made in Europe and South America. 

 The result has been to greatly restrict trade with our neighbors trade 

 essential to the material prosperity of our agricultural interests. Proof 

 of this interference with American exports is ample, and data could be 

 secured to fill a volume, but I deem such matter unnecessary. I quote, 

 however, from the Baltimore Sun the following extract, contained in 

 an article written for that paper by Prof. William P. Tonry, one of the 

 most eminent analytical chemists of the country, which goes to show 

 what effect adulteration has in shutting out our commerce from the 

 nations of the world in even so comparatively insignificant an article 

 as candy: 



As to the commercial results of the adulteration of candies, a confectioner whose 

 reputation for absolutely pure confectionery is unquestioned told ine that his sales 

 per annum did amount to $96,000, of which about $40,000 were export trade to South 

 American, West Indian, and Mexican ports. Philadelphia, New York, and Boston 

 houses entered the same field and, placing their goods at a lower figure, did for a 

 short time supply a good article, but soon replaced it by the adulterated. The 

 result was that the customer refused to have the American article at any price, and 

 the local Spanish dealers now send to Barcelona, Spain, for a pure candy. The less 

 discriminating consumers here give preference to adulterated articles, which can be 

 purchased cheaper, and thus $40,000 export trade and $50,000 home trade are the 

 penalty one house alone has had to pay for adherence to unadulterated goods, while 

 the commercial reputation of the United States has been very much depreciated, if 

 not entirely blasted. 



It is claimed that the Federal Government has no right to interfere 

 with what a man buys or sells, no right to interfere with what he eats 

 or drinks, or to bother as to whether he deceive his customer or not 

 that all such questions are to be decided by the several States and the 

 individuals themselves. It may be true that the Government has no 

 right to interfere in these matters, but when, from the very nature of 

 the Constitution, Congress alone can enable the States to enforce their 

 own laws, such legislation should be enacted as will permit them to 

 make effective laws enacted by their legislatures. Congress alone has 

 power to regulate commerce between the States, and until it enacts 

 laws providing for the prevention of the transportation from one State 

 into another of the adulterated food and drug products no State law 

 can be enforced. 



If any foreign Government were to interfere with the business rights 

 of our people the Federal Government would retaliate; but in the case 

 of an adulteration the Federal Government, it is claimed, has no right 

 to interfere, and the honest, industrious citizen is frozen out of busi- 

 ness while the scamp is permitted to continue his nefarious and unholy 

 practices. Counterfeiters of money are restrained, violators of the 

 revenue laws are held in check, pirates are summarily disposed of, but 

 those who counterfeit food and drugs, violate the various State laws, 

 and bring dishonor on the country by pirating and sailing under the 

 black flag of destruction to honest trade are permitted to continue in 



