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and the judge refused to take any action in the matter. We appealed the 

 cases and we hope to bring them up in the higher courts. 



Mr. Coolidge: Would it be proper for you to state something of 

 the nature of those amendments that are to be brought before the legis- 

 lature on the Pure Food Law? 



A. The main thing is a clau se which we have in the oleomargarine 

 law, that "No person shall by himself, his agents, or employes," etc. 

 This makes the storekeeper responsible for his clerk. 



We had a case against a very prominent grocer on the North side 

 whose clerk was caught selling colored distilled vinegar for pure cider. 

 The facts were not denied. We had absolute proofs. And to my great 

 astonishment this so-called respectable merchant said: "We did not 

 give instructions to our clerks to sell it that way," and the court upheld 

 them and declared them not guilty. 



Another one is, the present law does not allow the commissioner to 

 employ legal help, outside of the State's atorney's office. If any of you 

 gentlemen would go up and visit the State's Attorney in his office one day, 

 or even one hour, you would be impressed with the knowledge that we 

 stand a very small chance of getting before a jury, when there are eight 

 hundred or a thousand cases before ours. They are crowded so that it is 

 virtually impossible to do all the work. We have been put off from time 

 to time. We are now compelled to make a criminal case, set into motion 

 the grand jury, and then take the case before that jury, and why? Be- 

 •cause a man5 has been caught sell ing a pint of colored distilled vinegar as 

 "Cider. It is absurd for a first offense to make him pay a fine of fifty dol- 

 lars and make a criminal of him, instead of taking him before a justice of 

 the peace and fining him five dollars for a first offense. The second 

 offense should be a criminal offen se. That is what we are trying to have 

 changed. 



I may say to the creamery m en present that at my suggestion we are 

 going to try and make itcumpulsory by law to register and fill in the 

 blanks reports sent out to them. Out of six hundred sent out, we re- 

 ceived only one hundred and twelve replies. The law should compel the 



