246 THE COMMON SENSE OF THE MILK QUESTION 



It will be sufficient for our present discussion if we 

 consider the point of view of the advocates of pas- 

 teurization, which differs only from that of the ad- 

 vocates of sterilization in that the latter claim to 

 be more "thorough" when they carry the process 

 farther. 



Like the clean milk partisans, the advocates of 

 pasteurization are thoroughly alive to the evil con- 

 ditions which almost universally exist. They, too, 

 have done much to direct public attention to the 

 imhygienic conditions which surround the milk 

 supply from the cow to the table at every stage of 

 the long and tedious journey. With the zeal of 

 enthusiasts, they have agitated for reform and lost 

 no opportunity of calling attention to the perils of 

 polluted and infected milk. If they have done less 

 original investigation in this field than their clean 

 milk rivals, they have abimdantly balanced accounts 

 by the work they have done as popularizers of the 

 truth.'' No fair-minded opponent of pasteurization 

 in the radical camp will deny that the advocates 

 of pasteurization have done most of the pioneer 

 work and created most of the existing sentiment 

 for reform. They were the radicals of a few years 

 ago, and met with the ridicule and opposition which 

 radicals must always encounter and endure. 



Nowadays, among the reformers, they are con- 

 servatives. They frankly admit that pasteurization 



