What G. Frank Allmendinger Had To Say

The Free Press of yesterday contains the following Lansingdispatch: Fifty members are present at the fourth annual convention of the Michigan manufacturers of fruit goods, which began here to-day and will continue until Thursday night. In his annual address, delivered tonight, President Geo. F. Allmendinger, of Ann Arbor, asserted that Michigan is annually using adulterated goods to the amount of over $20,000,000, and enlarged upon the great loss which resulted to the farmers and the manufacturers of fruit goods in Michigan by reason of this adulteration, as well as rhe effect it has upon the health of the people. He believed that the people had no idea of the extent to which imposition is practiced, and asserted that from the cheapest and most simple articles of diet to the most expensive to which the art of the manipulator has been applied, every article of food is to a greater or less extent the subject of adulteration. -'For our breakfast," said the president, "we are given adulterated coffee, into which we may also turn adulterated milk and then sweeten with sugar adulterated with glucose. We eat biscuits that have been raised with an alum baking powder, and spread it with butter that has been churned out of the fat of a steer, instead of cream from a cow. We also eat pickles put up in adulterated vinegar and colored with salts of copper, and canned goods seasoned with lead, and to close the day we take a cup of adulterated tea." In view of the fact that other states are establishing commissions to guard against this adulteration of goods, the territory in which they may be sold is being narrowed. Michigan is becoming more and more a dumping ground for poor supplies. The cost to Ohio of such a commission is shown to be but $6,000, including chemist's expenses, and the people of the state have saved that cost many times over in addition to enjoying a purer food supply.