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GLKANIXGS IN BIvE CULTURE. 



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Ki(um\r. r.i.icosE i\ cmcAco. 



The IM.in Proposed on P.igcs 554, 555, Iiniiracticn- 

 lilc ; the Legal Stains of the Question. 



nv HERMAN K. MOORK. 



Mr. k'ooL- — In regard to your plan to have 

 Mr. \V. A. Selser, of riiiladelphia, make anal- 

 yses of samples of suspected honey, it would 

 not be best, as %ve could not use his evidence 

 here in our courts without i^eat expense in 

 brin,^ng him liere to testify in person. No 

 other motle of testimony would be satisfacto- 

 ry. The analyses must l)e made by some 

 chemist near by, or in Chicago. 



One thing to be remembered is, that there 

 would be considerable expense connected with 

 prosecuting these honey -mixers here in Chi- 

 cago. It would be the best place on earth to 

 make such a fight if made by one of our Bee- 

 keepers' Unions, because the best advertised; 

 and any action here would be at once commu- 

 nicated to the whole world of bee-keepers in 

 all lands. 



We must remember who are our foes here 

 in the outset. I inclose a clipping from a 

 Chicago paper about the Glucose Trust. A 

 new incorporation of the G. T. has just been 

 made in New Jersey, vdi\\ |;4<), 000,000 capital 

 stock. These people are pu.shing their Inisi- 

 n ess here in Chicago, as I believe |1, 000, 000 

 worth a year of their products is consumed 

 and handled through this city in a year. They 

 would undoubtedly fight us tooth and nail. 

 Their first fight would be to furnish unlimited 

 money to hire the best lawyers in Chicago to 

 defend any one arrested for mixing honey 

 with glucose, and to pay their fines if con- 

 victed. If the bee-keepers desire to push this 

 matter it would be necessary to provide not 

 less than JIOOO in money at the start to pay 

 necessarj- expenses. It would be necessary to 

 retain, to aid in the prosecution of offenders, 

 one of the best lawyers in Chicago — one whose 

 name would carry prestige in the courts and 

 before the people. To retain such a lawyer a 

 liberal fee would be necessarj-. 



I should like to see a decisive move made 

 against the works (glucose) of the enemy; 

 but it should be done in the proper manner, 

 and with a force commensurate with the 

 wealth and fighting ciualities of the said ene- 

 my, or it had best be left alone. I should be 

 glad to hear from Mr. York, as he is here 

 among them, and knows the conditions as 

 well as or better than I. 



I will say, for the benefit of those who know 

 me personally, that, though I am a lawyer, I 

 am not in a position to represent the Bee- 

 keepers' Union in such a prosecution, and 

 have no thoughts of myself in the above re- 

 marks, though I should be glad to give them 

 the benefit of any knowledge or experience I 

 may have in the premises. 



Chicago, 111., Aug. 4. 



[From your statement of the case it looks 

 almost as if we were helpless. Although I am 

 not a lawyer, nor the son of one, let us exam- 

 ine the matter a little from another point, for 

 I feel as if we could not give it up. How will 



this do? Employ Mr. Selser to analyze two 

 dozen sam])les of extracted honey bought in 

 the open market in Chicago. Su])pose he 

 finds one dozen of them to be adulterated. 

 Would not this, coming from the Union, be 

 .sufficient evidence to induce the prosecuting 

 attorney or the food connnissioners of your 

 State to bestir themselves a little, especially if 

 the General Manager kept on dinging at 

 them ? Why, in the name or the good vState 

 of Illinois, is it necessary for the Union or any 

 organization made up of private persons to 

 defray the expense of prosecution that lightly 

 belongs to the State ? Ohio has an energetic 

 food commissioner, and I have no douVjt he 

 had a constituency back of him who prodded 

 him up to a sense of his duty ; and those of 

 us who live in this State know that he has 

 made the food-adulterators fear and tremble. 

 He even went so far that some of our "good 

 people " actually began to protest, and they 

 fairly begged him to "let up" on the poor 

 persecuted mixers. The Union must not of 

 itself assume the expense of prosecutions ; 

 but can we not give the Illinois State Food 

 Commissioner, or whoever that functionary is, 

 a little " waking up " ? 



It is too bad that the liquor element and the 

 food-adulterators have got matters into such 

 shape that it is hard to secvire conviction ; but 

 the good people of our land must wake up, for 

 the other side certainly are not asleep. Glu- 

 cose and whisky, and all other enemies of the 

 human stomach, must not triumph over right. 

 —Ed.] 



GLUCOSE, AGAIN. 



BY R. M'KNIGHT. 



I am surprised, Mr. Editor, that you too 

 look upon glucose as vile stuff. You say, 

 "The article that is ordinarily used for pur- 

 poses of adulteration is hardly fit to put into 

 the stomach of a pig, let alone that of a hu- 

 man being." I take it that the statement 

 used in the above paragraph covers all arti- 

 cles " ordinarily used for the purposes of adul- 

 teration." In this you are certainly mistaken. 

 Whisky, I believe, is usually adulterated with 

 water; therefore water is unfit to put into the 

 stomach of a pig. Coffee is usually adulter- 

 ated with chickory, therefore chickory is vile 

 stuff, unfit to be used by a human being. 

 Mustard is adulterated with flour — your logic 

 proves flour vile stuff. The sparkling diamond 

 is chemically identical with the somber char- 

 coal, so it will be in order for Cecil Rhodes 

 and other diamond kings to denounce char- 

 coal as vile .stuff, and its producers scoundrels. 

 Now that there is a large factory at Niagara 

 Falls for manufacturing diamonds out of char- 

 coal, all these adulterants are, I contend, le- 

 gitimate articles of commerce, and their pro- 

 duction is neither a fraud nor a .sin. The 

 fraud \:onsists in mixing them with articles of 

 a higher commercial value than themselves, 

 and selling the mixed article for what it is not. 

 The onlv proof you furnish that glucose is 

 vile stuff is that' it nauseated vou once while 



