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people could understand the honey they get is always pure 

 honey. 



Pres. Miller — Let me tell you one thing as an Illustration 

 beariLg upon this point. I live in a little town that has been 

 without saloons for more than 30 years, but liquor is sold in it 

 on the sly. Those who sell liquor have no permission from 

 the lown or from the State, and they are doing a crime when 

 they are doing it. They don't take the trouble to look out for 

 the Slate or town, but they do look out for the General Gov- 

 ernment and get a United States license ; they are criminals 

 in the eyes of the State law, but in the eyes of the General 

 Government they are law-abiding citizens; in that case, at 

 least, the General Government has a power, and law breakers 

 are afraid of it; they are not afraid of State or county laws, 

 or town laws. 



Mr. Baxter — I was in Iowa last winter, and saw some very 

 nice, presumably honey, in pound glasses. I askt the whole- 

 saler if he didn't want to buy a barrel of honey at a low price, 

 pure honey. I told him I had seen some of his honey in pound 

 glasses In a grocery store. He said, "That is not honey." I 

 told hira he had it labeled " pure white clover honey," and that 

 he was doing a wrong to bee-keepers and the public, and he 

 said, '• Everybody does that." I told him the first thing he 

 knew we would have proceedings instituted against him for 

 obtaining money under false pretenses. " I don't believe you 

 can do that in Iowa," he said. 



Mr. Stone — I would like to ask Mr. York if the United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Union is not likely to take hold of honey 

 adulteration, especially in the city of Chicago, and apply the 

 State law, and make it effectual ? 



Mr. York — Yes, they will, just as soon as we have suffi- 

 cient funds to begin operations, and that is all we are waiting 

 for — for a sufiiciently large membership (which means suffi- 

 cient money in the treasury) to warrant us in going ahead. 

 The laws of Illinois are sufficiently strong, I think, to stop 

 adulteration it they are once enforced. I think we are in- 

 debted to Mr. Moore for resurrecting the laws, and I should 

 judge from the reading of them that they were all we need to 

 stop adulteration in this State. I, for one, should like to see 

 them enforced, and am very well satisfied that just as soon as 

 we have a large enough fund in the treasury of the United 

 Slates Bee-Keepers' Union we will begin to make an attempt 

 to enforce laws against adulteration of honey in this State as 

 well as elsewhere. 



Mr. Baxter — Your law is a failure, if that is the case — if 

 you have to have funds provided. You have a prosecuting 

 attorney here — can't you proceed under that ? If you have to 

 have private funds to prosecute criminals, I think the law is 

 a failure. 



Mr. Dunne — This question brings us back to the fact that 

 it is the United States that has a right to be at the expense of 

 enforcing the laws ; they do with the distilleries. Has not 

 the honey-man the same right to have the protection of the 

 United States that the distillery has ? Is Mr. Armour to be 

 protected by having his pork analyzed and branded by the 

 United States Government as pure, and the honey-man to 

 have no protection ? It only requires an effort on the part of 

 the bee-keepers of the United States to enforce the law, and 

 you will have the same right as other citizens, because the 

 Government has the right to protect this industry as well as 

 any other industry. We are all citizens alike, and if honey 

 can be adulterated the same as whiskey, they owe us the same 

 protection. The distillers don't amount to 500 all over the 

 United States, but the bee-keepers amount to thousands, and 

 I claim it is the duty of the Government to protect this in- 

 terest as well as any other. It will be our own fault if we 

 don't get legislation that will protect it. The Government 

 puts the stamp of the purity of the whiskey on the bottle; 

 that is in the interest of the distiller and the Government; 

 and the Government can have an office here just the same; 

 put a tax on to pay for it, and let ihere be a depot and have 

 honey inspected ; then you will get value for pure honey. 



Mr. Karch — I don't think Mr. Dunne makes the proper 

 distinction between whiskey and honey. Adulterated honey 

 will not kill quite so quickly as whiskey. (Laughter) 



Mr. York — I would like to say one more word in referring 

 to what Mr. Baxter said, that we ought not to be compelled to 

 spend our money to enforce State laws. I don't think that we 

 need to spend the money for the purpose directly, but we 

 must be to some expense to have our General Manager and 

 Treasurer come on the ground, to engage an attorney to start 

 the case, to look after samples, to have them analyzed, etc. 

 That all costs something. Still, if it were known that the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union has a good fund back of 

 them, and that they propose to fight this thing through, we 

 might not have to spend our money to enforce State laws, but 

 it is a good thing to have it on hand. I presume we could get 



the prosecuting attorney to take bold of it, but there would 

 be some expense to start the suit ; at least that Is the way I 

 understand it. I am not an attorney, but I understand there 

 would be some expense in beginning suits of that kind. 



Mr. Moore — I am perfectly familiar with legal matters 

 here in Chicago. I will tell why it is necessary to put up the 

 money. There are 500 prisoners in the county jail, and Mr. 

 Deneen (the State's Attorney) is in duty bound to get those 

 500 men out of jail or into the penitentiary as soon as possi- 

 ble. In the second place, whenever railroad men want a 

 scalper sent to the penitentiary, they hire Attorney Forrest, 

 or some other eminent attorney, at great expense. I could 

 name many other instances. It is the State's attorney's busi- 

 ness, of course, to do this, because it is the people's prosecu- 

 tion, but he is so busy, and the question of politics may come 

 in ; he does not have time, so It seems to be an absolute neces- 

 sity to raise some money, .$1,000 at least, before anything 

 adequate can be done in Chicago. This $1,000 is to pay for 

 the expense of getting samples of honey, and paying an at- 

 torney to do it. I would like to hear from Mr. York a little 

 further. 



Mr. Baxter — I think if we had a United States pure food 

 law under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture, 

 or under the Internal Revenue Bureau, if there is a tax to be 

 assest (altho I don't favor that), 1 thinlf we would be very apt 

 to get justice more speedily, and it would be general. 



Pres. Miller— Do you want to take any action upon this, 

 or shall we pass on to the next question ? 



Mr. Baxter — I would introduce a resolution that It is the 

 sentiment of this association that a United States Pure Food 

 Bill be past by Congress. 



Motion seconded by Mr. York. 



Mr. Baxter — I should say we are not prepared to draft 

 such a Bill now. I think the proper way would be to refer 

 that to the Executive Committee of the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union. I think they would have better recognition 

 than we would. 



Mr. York suggested that we recommend that the General 

 Manager of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union draft a 

 proper Bill to be past by Congress, and moved this as an 

 amendment to the former motion, to which Mr. Baxter 

 assented. 



Mr. Baxter — My motion is that it is the sentiment of this 

 association that we have a United States Pure Food Bill, and 

 that we recommend the Manager of the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union to draft such a Bill as regards honey, at least. 



Mr. Dunne — Who is going to draft this Bill ? Where is it 

 to go? 



Pres. Miller — As it now stands it would be referred to the 

 General Manager of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, 

 and I think that you would find that he would do his level 

 best. 



Mr. Dunne — I would like to add in that recommendation 

 that we recommend that all adulterated honey be seized and 

 destroyed forthwith. 



The motion was then carried nnanlmously. 

 (To be continued.) 



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