OUR MONTHLY TALK.

Congress adjourned June 30th. It was the most remarkable session of recent years-most remarkable in things accomplisht. The economic progress_accomplisht by this session will be far reaching. Congress has never before gotten so near to the people and the interests of the people; and the surprising feature was, that the Senate proved itself to be more strongly opposed to trusts, etc., than the House.

How shall we account for the awakening of Congress? First, we are fortunate in having a courageous and determined man in the White House, and one who is in favor of the interests of the people. Much of the progressiv work done at this session has been due to him. But the people have also been awakening up, too, during recent years; particularly has that awakening of the people been hastened by the bold magazine work during the last few years. Many are kind enuf to say that THE MEDICAL WORLD, which has been boldly making its light shine in every corner of this great country during the past ten years and more, is largely responsible for the demand on the part of the people for more progressiv legislation, and for more faithful execution of the laws in favor of the people. I do not reach the people (except thru Equity Series), but I reach the doctors, who are a part of the people, and their relations with the rest of the people are such that they can reach the masses of the people. It has always been my plan to reach the people thru the doctors. It was first thought that such a department as these "Talks" would ruin any medical publication. But when it was demonstrated that doctors like courageous journalism, it seems that magazines of general circulation were encouraged to strike out boldly; and many of them have done so with great ability, and with tremendous effect upon the thoughts of the country. This is notably true of McClure's Magazine and Everybody's Magazine; but it is also true of many other magazines too numerous to mention, aided by many liberalized newspapers. It was formerly thought that the "power of the press concerning current affairs resided in the newspaper press; but it has been proven that monthly magazines can mould opinions and wield influence as well as or perhaps better than the daily and weekly newspapers.

The Chief Measures Passed by Congress. This Congress has proved itself to be the most radical Congress we ever had; but I hope that future Congresses will prove that this is only a beginning in recognizing and granting the people's rights; and that the good work will continue until we equal the record of New Zealand. In fact, I hope that 1906 in our country will prove to be a beginning of a peaceful political and economic revolution, somewhat like that which was begun in New Zealand in 1891. See "The Story of New Zealand," beginning with page 178, or "Politics in New Zealand," beginning on page 18. Our problems are different from those of New Zealand, however, for New Zealand already had her telegraphs and railroads before 1890, and our trust problem has never been present to any great extent in New Zealand.

Rate Bill.

By all odds the hardest fought measure passed by this Congress was the Rate Bill. This is the first decided contest between corporate power and the people, and corporate power had to yield. As I write, this law (it is a law now, or will be after the date of its going into effect, which is "sixty days after its approval by the President," and it was approved June 29) is before me. It covers fourteen printed pages. It enlarges the Interstate Commerce Commission from five members to seven members, increases the salary of each to $10,000 each per year, and the important part is that it very greatly enlarges the powers of this Commission in the regulation of railroad rates. This was a bitter pill for the railroads and for powerful interests in league with the railroads, but they will have to "take their medicin." While this is the "next step" in the direction of railroad reform and control in this country, and while I admit that this is a

necessary step in the solution of the transportation question, I wish to here predict its failure. The railroads will not "be good." If they find that the Commission interferes too much with their plans and purposes, they will find means to control the Commission; and then we will see (the evils not being removed) that other measures will be necessary in order to solve the transportation problem satisfactorily. See the history of railroads in the different European countries, particularly England and Germany, in the second part of The Railroads, the Trusts, and the People" (which will be completed about the time these lines meet your eyes-Equity Series, price 25c.). You will there see the failure of regulation in history. History will doubtless be repeated in this country, and then more radical measures must be adopted. Government ownership and operation must, in the nature of things, be the final goal. I need not say anything further on this subject, for I have made the entire subject available to you at a trifling price, in "The Railroads, the Trusts, and the People."

The Food Bill.

A bill of equal importance with the Rate Bill only in a different way is the Food Bill. Legislation upon the question of pure foods, drugs and liquors has been attempted in the Senate during the past fifteen years; but this year, in the general awakening, the friends of this measure were able to push it thru successfully. It then went to the House, which was not ready for it, and there it met the combined opposition of all those who have found their fraudulent and dangerous practices so profitable in the past, and it seemed for awhile that they would be successful in "hanging up" the matter in the House; but the force of public opinion (which is gaining some courage) forced its consideration by the House, and the final passage of a bill not so good as the Senate bill, and a conference committee from both houses agreed on a fairly satisfactory bill which was made a law. As it lays before me, it covers nearly six printed pages. It goes into effect on the first of January next. As it requires a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphin, cocain, heroin, alpha or beta encane, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivativ or preparation of any such substances contained therein," we may see some skirmishing and hustling between now and January 1st to adjust labels to the new law, or to so change the composition of certain "proprietaries" that the label may not be an injurious tell-tale. It will be interesting to watch certain proprietaries, both of the so-called "ethical" kind and of the "nostrum" kind. The above requirements are just what many of our readers have been clamoring for, for a long time. Now we have it or soon shall have it. It would be well for all the states to follow up with a similar law, as the authority of Congress extends only to those articles made in one state and offered for sale in another. This, of course, reaches all the preparations of general distribution and sale, but this law doesn't touch a firm manufacturing goods to be sold in the state where manufactured. It is not likely that any firm will establish a manufacturing branch in every state, in order to avoid the law, but that would be possible.

Meat Inspection.

Closely related in nature to the Pure Food law is the one regulating the inspection of meat. This is a part of the bill making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, and at first it seems rather hard to find in that document of thirty-one printed pages, but it may be found under the head of "Bureau of Animal Industries," consisting of seven and one-half printed pages. All the world knows the disgusting revelations concerning the Chicago packing houses. These additions to the agriculture appropriation bill seek to correct these deplorable conditions. Cattle, sheep, swine and goats" are repeatedly specified in the bill, but there is no reference to fowls, unless they may be included in "meat products intended for food." There should be a law requiring the removal of the abdominal contents from fowls immediately after being killed. Chickens are killed, and after the feathers are

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removed they are shipt great distances before being exposed for sale, and frequently they are kept in cold storage perhaps for months, and all this time the entrails are retained, giving a foul and disgusting taste to the meat. This is an evil that should be stopt-it should never have been begun. The boards of health of a few states are beginning to give some attention to this matter, and the legislatures and Congress should immediately take it up. This is a matter that affects chiefly the inhabitants of large cities; those who live in the country or in towns can have a chicken in the pot within a few hours after it has been killed. Think of the people who have to eat fowls months after they have been killed, with the abdominal contents having been retained all that time!-that is, until the fowls are cleaned immediately before cooking.

Denaturized Alcohol Bill.

The new law of next general interest and importance is that removing the internal revenue tax from alcohol "when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing materials." The law is brief, scarcely two pages, and an exceedingly good one, leaving routine details to the executivs of the departments involved (the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of the Treasury), requiring a full report to Congress at its next session, report to include suggestions for additional legislation, if any more should be needed to secure the objects of the law. I like the plan and spirit involved in this law-outlining clearly the objects sought and giving specific directions as far as seems practical, but leaving many details to the executiv departments whose duty it shall be to execute the law, requiring a strict report, and asking whether or not experience shall show the necessity for further legislation. If more of our laws were constructed in this way, we would have shorter and clearer laws, the enforcement of which would be easier than the enforcement of many of our cumbrous, voluminous laws. The object of this law is to permit the withdrawal of alcohol from bond" without the payment of internal-revenue tax, for use in the arts and industries, and for fuel, light, and power." The methods of denaturizing will probably be various, probably the leading methods being the addition of a percentage of wood alcohol or kerosene. The chief cost of alcohol has heretofore been the tax. This being removed, for the above purposes, it is thought will open up an important source of energy, light, and manufacturing possibilities. It is thought that within a year automobiles will be running with denaturized alcohol instead of gasoline-which will be a blow to the interests of the Standard Oil Company.

It is thought that the Standard Oil interest desired the defeat of the law, but seeing the temper of the people, considered discretion the better part of valor, and so did not seek openly to defeat the law. The people are beginning to see that they must take care of their own interests, and that they can do so. With a further realization of their rights and appreciation of their power, they will make further and further progress toward economic justice to themselves. Finally they may realize that they are the source of all political power in a properly governed republic, and they will act accordingly, and compel predatory corporations to toe the mark." It was only necessary to show the profession that Dr. Lawrence was foisting a proprietary medicin almanac upon the profession in the guise of a medical journal; the profession demanded a reformation, and got it. Just so, the people will demand that the predatory corporations do the square thing with competitors and the public; and the corporations will obey when they see that the eyes of the people are open to corporation iniquities. They will "be good," if for no other purpose than to avoid certain punishment, which they know will be theirs if they persist in their iniquities.

It is pleasant to be able to commend the action of our Congress and President. One gets tired of being considered what is sometimes aptly called a "calamity howler." But it is our duty to howl "calamity" as long as calamity exists, and to point out remedies, and call for action. Congress has evidently heard the call,

and it has begun to act. No Congress has ever assailed the tremendous power of corporations and organized wealth as this one has done, but it is only a beginning. The people are really beginning to have some influence in the management of their affairs! As fast as they learn that they can have some influence in the management of their own affairs, and that they have an inherent right to do so, this influence will grow. Here is an indication, clipt from the Philadelphia Ledger this morning (July 16th):

LABOR IN POLITICS.

PLEDGES IN WRITING WILL BE REQUESTED OF
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.

Washington, July 15.-Organized labor will be a strong factor in the next congressional campaign, according to a statement made by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor.

"We are not organized as a political party," said President Gompers, "but we shall do all that is within our power to make the country see that we are a political factor. We have influence and power in this country, and I am free to make the prediction that when the Sixtieth Congress convenes some of the familiar faces will be missing."

The preliminary steps have been taken to put every member of the House of Representatives on record with regard to proposed legislation advocated by organized labor. Every candidate will be requested to reply to a circular letter, from which there can be no sidestepping. If satisfactory answers be not received, or if the member addressed ignores the communication, he is to be put on organized labor's blacklist, and it is expected that members of the Federation will vote and work against all blacklisted candidates.

"This circular letter," said Mr. Gompers today, "will be put in the mail within the next ten days, and we shall expect an answer from every member to whom it is sent. Organized labor has grown tired of having promises made to it during the campaign, only to be broken when the opportunity comes to redeem their promises."

The pointed question whether organized labor would endeavor to defeat Speaker Cannon was evaded by Mr. Gompers.

"It would be idle to give any names at this time," he said, but the inference was drawn from Mr. Gompers' attitude that organized labor was preparing for a great fight in the Eighteenth Illinois, where labor professes to have once before defeated Mr. Cannon for election for the House.

Here is another symptom:

UNITED LABOR PARTY FORMED. TICKET NOMINATED AND DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES

ADOPTED.

Altoona, July 4.-The United Labor party was organized in this city last night. The following ticket was nominated:

Assemblyman from the First Legislativ District, George A. McGregor, a member of the Railway Trainmen; for Sheriff, James J. Hyland, of the printers' union; Prothonotary, R. L. Wolf, of the carpenters' union; Jury Commissioner, L. A. McIntyre, of the machinists' organization. Morris J. Holland was chosen the party's chair

man.

The party adopted the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, and declared for an eight-hour law, employers' liability law, and enforcement of the childlabor law.

The policy of organized labor used to be to keep out of politics; now a new policy is being inaugurated, which is a reversal of the old policy, and it is the right policy for free men, or any organization of free men, in a country which boasts of self government.

We used to be governed by parties; but the more intelligent independence goes into politics, the more the old partisan spirit disappears. Some one has rather aptly said that Roosevelt is a democrat but he don't know it; and that Roosevelt caught Bryan in swimming and stole his clothes (his principles). That shows how near alike Roosevelt republicanism and Bryan democracy are; and the old style democrats used to declare that Bryan is a populist and not a democrat. So if Roosevelt is a Bryan democrat, he is also a populist. That brings us all pretty close together on principles, and that is all that we care for in politics. True, the professional politicians want to keep up a division for the offices, as each side wants the offices; and the old style republicans, like the plutocrats and trustocrats, and the corporation representativs in Con

gress, and the old democratic irreconcilables, mostly in the south, want to keep up the partisan spirit. But independent American citizenship is getting too intelligent for that. Organized labor is doing the intelligent thing. What do the Federation members care for ancient party history, and the old cries that used to thrill the partisan hosts? The people who do the work and produce the wealth in this country are learning that arch schemers have kept the people divided so long inte partisan camps, in order to get the opportunity to rob the masses, and they have thus piled up great wealth, and establisht extensiv "vested interests." The awakening has begun to come, and it should not stop until our eyes are wide open to existing evils, and also to our opportunities. We can serve our own interests best by ignoring old party "buncombe," and combining against the enemies of the masses of the people. When that is done, the inherent rights of the people will have a better chance than the vested interests" of those who have been exploiting the people so long.

No Hatred of Honest Wealth.

That excellent and widely circulated paper, The Saturday Evening Post, in its issue for July 7th, publishes a long interview with Judge Gaynor, of Brooklyn. I wish to present here a few brief extracts:

"You ask if these great corporations influence legislation. Think of a state where the chairman of the legislativ committees on railroads, on insurance, on any or every thing that have to do directly with these corporations, and after the chairman, the influential members are paid salaries by those particular interests which the committees have in charge! Think of the railroads paying their committee so much a year-the chairman, $25,000; the insurance companies paying their chairman a similar sum; and so on! Their committees,' I said. Certainly, they pay them, altho the people elect them."

"There is a deal being printed and said," I observed, "about the public being educated to hate wealth. What is your opinion of the public feeling toward wealth and those who possess it?"

ROBBERS THAT CRY "ANARCHIST!"

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"There is no popular hatred of wealth-honest wealth," replied Judge Gaynor. "The public honors a man who by honesty and industry piles up a fortune. The public has been just in every age. It seeks the injury of no man, no company. It robs no one, pillages no one. It opposes none, makes war on none, save the criminal man or criminal corporation found plundering the people. I have been both angered and amused at the brazen tactics of these criminals. They pillage and loot and rob and plunder, and take the public into their villain laps and pluck it as a Dutch woman plucks a goose. Then, when the pillaged goose protests, they cry Anarchist! they, robbing the people in the teeth of law and justice, who are the anarchists. They fill their thievish pockets and fly to Europe with the swag. If an investigation is ordered, they secrete themselves from the officers of the people. What would an honest man do if he heard that an officer of justice was looking for him to subpena him to give testimony? Would he hide in his house and have his wife and children and servants lie and say they did not know where he was? And yet all this was done by an eminent personage who has lately put the ocean between this country and himself. [This is well known to to be John D. Rockefeller.-ED.] Would an honest man, knowing his testimony was wanted, hurry aboard ship and put to sea, or skulk to another state to escape service of a subpena? Is such a man fit to mingle with law-abiding people? No; he is dishonest, disreputable. No amount of church or Sunday-school teaching can make him respectable. And it is such as he who cry 'Anarchist!' against honest men. I say that it is he and such as he who are the anarchists; and they will destroy our Government unless checkt in their criminal career.

"The public is paying, not only dividends to the companies which constructed the roads, but dividends to the several successiv companies. In brief, if the actual investment be considered, the public is paying in fares somewhere near an annual 40 percent. How long do you suppose the public will put up with these conditions? For 999 years? No; nor for nine years perhaps. The traction story I have told you is the story, with slight changes, of what has gone on and is going on in railways, gas companies, telefone companies, electric light companies, and the whole long list of public service corporations, with but few exceptions, thruout the land. And yet these men cry 'Anarchist!'

There is a public prejudice against rebates, and the wealth that flows from them. There is no prejudice against honestly acquired wealth. There is prejudice against wealth acquired by trick and device, by the favoritism of laws, by the misuse of public franchises. That wealth and its acquirement is under the ban of every honest man. It is predatory wealth, as ravenous as a wolf and as much without a conscience, against which the people protest and wage war. They will continue to protest; their war will grow and may go even to excess. Should it do so our wolfish capitalists will have themselves to thank. There be those who cry out against investigations and disclosures where great corporations are concerned. They deplore them as injurious to commerce.' I have to say to these good, timid, deprecatory folk that a business which cannot survive the truth is a bad, wretched business. That which the truth will kill should die and be destroyed."

The present Congress, by its recent acts, takes a farther step than was ever before taken in the direction of the extension of Federal authority; particularly is this true in the pure food law, and the meat inspection part of the agricultural bill. This extension of authority is absolutely necessary, if we are going to make real progress. To continue to leave such matters (and other matters, also) exclusivly to the states allows powerful interests to locate in the worst states, and from such a vantage ground play on all the other states. It can be readily seen that uniformity is necessary to any real progress, and that can come only thru Congress. But Congress can regulate only interstate commerce-that is, products that are produced in one state and shipt to another state for consumption; Congress cannot reach products that are produced and consumed entirely within the borders of a single state. Here the state legislatures must be relied on. In this connection, the following news item, written July 15th, will be of interest:

MUCH EXPECTED FROM PURE FOOD
MEETING.

CONFERENCE IN HARTFORD WILL BE ASKT TO URGE A
UNIFORM LAW IN THE VARIOUS STATES.

Manufacturers in all parts of the country have been in-
vited to attend the tenth annual convention of the National
Association of State Dairy and Food Departments, which
will open tomorrow in Hartford, Conn., and continue until
Friday evening. The conference promises to be one of
the most important of its kind ever held, following, as it
does, immediately upon the passage of the first Federal
pure food law.

The general impression among food manufacturers is that a decision will be reached at the conference as to whether the spirit of the Federal law is to be incorporated into the administration of the various state food departments. On this decision, it is asserted, the real service of the national legislation will depend. Packers and wholesalers, as well as importers, have complained for years of the lack of uniformity in state laws governing the sale and distribution of food products, and it is expected that their strongest plea to the commissioners at the Hartford meeting will be for legislation uniform in character which will allow goods to be sold in the different states without change of labels, size of package, or other minor characteristics. At present, manufacturers complain, it is almost an impossibility to comply with all the laws of all the states, and, as a result, no matter what the quality of a manufacturer's goods or the amount of his capital, he can do business only in a restricted territory.

Only Scracht the Surface.

While the present Congress, during the session just closed, made a remarkable record (in comparison with the past) in progressiv legislation, this work is only begun. In many directions, progressiv legislation was not toucht. For example, our monetary laws are very unsatisfactory, and they will have to be fixt some time. Private institutions (banks) should not have the power to issue money. The trust question is not really toucht. A few local ice trust officials have been arrested in some localities, but the oil trust, sugar trust, steel trust go merrily on monopolizing and taxing the people. And nearly all the trusts are protected from foreign competition by a high tarif. It was long ago suggested that the tarif be taken off the products of trusts, particularly from the products of trusts that sell said products at a lower price in foreign countries than to home consumers, but it has not been done, and we don't hear anything about it any more. Will our present Congress have nerve enuf to do this next

winter? I fear not. In this connection, read the following, from the Philadelphia Ledger:

NEW ZEALAND CURBS TRUSTS.

PREMIER TELLS OF HOW GOVERNMENT BECOMES COM-
PETITOR OF COMBINATIONS.

New York, July 5.-Sir Joseph George Ward, who is
to succeed the late Richard John Seddon as Premier of
New Zealand, reacht this city today on the Majestic.
Sir Joseph is on his way home.

Evidently he does not altogether have faith in the
efficiency of the methods now adopted in the United
States for dealing with the trusts, altho he carefully re-
frained from criticism.

"Many methods," he said, "have been suggested for the control of these large corporations which in any country must become a danger to the purity of government if allowed to grow too big and powerful. One method is publicity. Another is regulation of prices by legislativ enactment.

We have not adopted either of these methods. The Government of New Zealand would not, and I do not think any government should assume the responsibility, when a corporation has cornered a product and is charging an exorbitant price, to enact a law fixing the rate at which the product must be sold.

"We had in New Zealand several years ago a milling trust. The heads of the flour combines were notified that unless the prices came down a law would be enacted removing the duty on flour. The price did come down and we have no milling trust in New Zealand today.

"A man askt me today what we would do in New Zealand if an ice trust attempted to put up the price of ice beyond the bounds of reason. I replied that the Government would build ice factories and enter into competition with the trusts, selling ice at a fair profit. That is the only method we know of in New Zealand to secure absolute fairness in the distribution of public necessities." Sir Joseph also cited instances of how the New Zealand Government brought down coal prices and insurance rates in the same way.

Sir Joseph will dine with the President tomorrow. While we are now elated over the bold, progressiv work which our Congress has done, if the future is anything like what it ought to be, we will see that the present Congress has only scracht the surface. No really radical work has yet been done. Radical comes from radix; root; and means going to the root of things. The beginning made by Congress will lead to the root of our evils if followed up; but it will be necessary to follow up. The Food Law comes nearer being radical, in its way, than anything yet done; but we have many evils; therefore, many roots; let us find them all.

The democratic party in Pennsylvania is trying to be very good this year. It is fusing with the independent (Lincoln) republicans in an effort which both are making to defeat the "Organization " republicans, who have misruled this state so long. Here is one plank of the democratic platform:

We, therefore, repeat the declaration of our aims and purposes when we again affirm that we stand as ever for the rule of the people, in county, state and nation, as against the federated tyranny of organized greed and corrupt political and commercial manipulators.

But, bless them, they say nothing at all about how they are to get "rule of the people." Wonder if they ever heard of the referendum? They ought to know that the only way for the people to really rule is by means of the initiativ and referendum. That is radical; but you see they have missed the root.

The voice of organized labor rings out clearly on many public questions, and it is radical-that is, rootical-goes to the root. The following platform for political action has been submitted to the New York Central Federated Union, and I suppose that it, or an equally radical one, will be adopted:

Enforcement of the eight-hour and prevailing rate of wages law, the child-labor law, the compulsory-education law and the law relating to contract prison labor.

Prohibition of the introduction of prison-made goods from other states.

Public operation of public utilities; legalization of a municipal ice plant and slaughter-houses.

The establishment of postal savings banks.

A postal express (parcels post).

A law prohibiting the use of the injunction process in labor disputes.

A national eight-hour law.

Direct nomination and election of President, Vice-President, United States Senators, Judges.

Extension of the provisions of the employers' liability law to include all classes of employment.

Ballot reform to prevent corruption, insure a fair count and punish bribe-givers and bribe-takers.

Adoption of direct legislation thru the initiativ and referendum.

In this connection, let us ask, what are the farmers doing? They are, or should be, as deeply interested in this country being governed in the interest of the masses of the people as organized labor is. Postal savings banks and a parcels post would serve farmers more than organized labor, for obvious reasons; yet have farmers made a united demand for these and other things? Farmers should be more wide awake and more determined-and so should doctors. All citizens should interest themselves deeply and activly in the above and other far-reaching principles that affect the interests of the masses of the people, tending to diffuse wealth justly, serve the people, purify government, and favor comfortable homes for the many instead of immense fortunes for the few. And I will never be satisfied until I see in this country, as in New Zealand, a union for political action between organized labor and the farmers. They could combine upon most or probably all of the above platform; particularly on postal savings banks, parcels post, and direct legislation thru the initiativ and the referendum. And let me propose another-one which I proposed over ten years ago: a national inheritance law apply. ing only to millionaires. Let them enjoy their millions while they live (if they really do enjoy them), but make it impossible for a man to transmit by will at death (or give away during life) more than one million dollars. Wouldn't that be a curb to the accumulation of millions? Wouldn't that cause millionaires to give others a chance? Wouldn't that stop the corruption and oppression now common among millionaires? Wouldn't that cause them to turn their attention to useful service to the country instead of plundering the country? and wouldn't that be better, also, for the millionaires themselves than their present course? Shouldn't that simple, direct platform command 99 percent of the votes of this country?

Show This to Your Local Editor.

Doctors, I suggest that you show the following letters and editorial comment to the editor of your local paper. Monroe, La., is a town of about 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants, not remarkable in any way that I know of excepting that it contains an editor who should be taken as a model all over the country. The following appeared in the Monroe News for May 26th: TOLEDO, OHIO, May 22, 1906.

NEWS, MONROE, La.
Gentlemen:-Should bills introduced by Senator Win-
gate and Representative Smith become laws they will
force us to discontinue advertising in your state. Your
prompt attention regarding these bills we believe would
be of mutual benefit.

We would respectfully call attention to contract which we have with you at present. Respectfully,

CHENEY MEDICIN COMPANY.
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 23, 1906.
EDITOR OF NEWS, MONROE, La.

Dear Sir:-We learn that there are two bad bills before
your General Assembly, viz.: Senate Bill No 8 by Mr.
Wingate, and a bill in the House of Representatives by
Mr. Smith.

Each of these bills requires the full formula on every bottle of patent medicin. If the manufacturers should publish their full formulas any druggist could then make and sell their preparations, not only in Louisiana, but wherever the medicin was known and used.

You will see at once that the purpose of these bills is to kill the sale of all patent medicin in that state, as manufacturers will not publish their formulas

These bills are the rankest class legislation and intended for the sole benefit of the medical profession. We are confident that you will object to their enactment, and if so kindly write the senator from your parish and ask him to oppose the enactment of Senate Bill No. 8 by Wingate. You should also write to your representative to oppose the patent-medicin bill by Mr. Smith. Yours truly. CHAMBERLAIN MEDICIN COMPANY. By L. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary.

THE EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Nay, Pauline, not if The News loses every patent medicin advertising contract it now has and never gets an