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From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 1,  U.S. Government Poisons Generations of Americans
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Keywords:  U.S. Government Poisons Generations of Americans
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 17:44:48 GMT
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    The principles of nature are indomitable, despite modern 
    industry's assault upon nature from every front. The emporers of
    Big Business are poisoning our Earth, while they concomitantly
    poison all life forms, from the simplest organisms to the human 
    species. Unless we now begin to unmask and combat these greedy
    dictators -- the true culprits causing the myriad diseases 
    which have long been decimating our high-tech societies --
    our children of the 21st Century and beyond shall be doomed to  
    live brief lives besieged by illnesses -- a state-of-affairs which
    is now beginning to plague our industrial society, despite their
    corporate mass media's smokescreen concealing their culpability. 

    Although this speech was given about a third of a century 
    ago, its astounding revelations are like aging wine, 
    increasing in potentcy on scale with the increasing illness of  
    successive generations of Americans, each surpassingly sick 
    generation sailing, without a clue, into extinction upon 
    the eternal currents of time.
                                   ~ JD ~


 [transcript of a tape-recorded speech given by V.E. Irons, at the 
  age of 89, before a convention of the National Health Federation]:

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V.E. IRONS:
Why does sixty percent of the entire population have chronic
diseases?  Why are we spending twenty billion dollars a year
[today, it's over one-quarter trillion a year] on our health problems?
They say that the biggest problem is inflation and this tremendous
national debt. Do you realize that it wouldn't take very many years
to wipe out that national debt IF everybody belonged to this
organization and followed through on our precepts?

Now, how did we get into this terrible condition? If [Soviet
Premier] Kruschev was attacking our shores and costing us twenty
billion dollars a year, we'd do something about it. Every man, 
woman and child would want to go out and do something. Well, we've
got a far worse enemy attacking us from within. But do we do
anything about it?  And how many of us actually go to work, put our
money in, and put our time in, to try to save this nation?

How did we get into this condition?  I'm going to give you a little
history of it.

I heard, yesterday, one of the greatest pieces of irony that could
happen in this country. Harold Edwards got up here and he said that
they were going to establish a monument in Washington to Harvey W.
Wiley, the man who put through the Food and Drug Act. I have never
seen a greater piece of irony performed, because those who are 
doing it are doing it either because their consciences bother them,
or because they want the monument, for propaganda purposes, to get
more money to fight our ideas.

I have here in front of me the book that was written by Harvey W.
Wiley. Some of you are familiar with it. I've found some people who
have read it, but who are not familiar with a few of the passages
which I'm now going to read. Dr. Wiley was a medical doctor -- a
very high-caliber individual, probably as high a caliber a man as
we've ever had in any of our Government's positions. In 1883,     
he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. Now please
remember that Bureau of Chemistry because he mentions it in his 
book a great deal. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry.  In 1883, 
for twenty-three years, he worked to get the Pure Food Law passed. 
In 1906, he got it through.                                    

Congress was determined that he should be the only one whom they
could trust to enforce the Pure Food Law. So, even though his
enemies tried time and time again, and brought all kinds of 
pressure to bear upon Congress, they REFUSED to put the enforcement
of that law into anybody's hands but Dr. Wiley's.  Remember that,
because I want to show you how it was taken out of his hands. 

During all this time, they got committees together. And one of the
committees that they got together was the Remson[sp] Committee.
Remson was the man who was getting the money from [the] saccharin
[industry]. He was getting the rebates out of the saccharin deal.
He was put in charge.  How much real true science and truth would
you get out of a man who was fighting the man who put through the
Pure Food Law?  In 1906 the law went through, and for six years
longer, Dr. Wiley tried to enforce it. But no matter what he did,
the United States Government, in EVERY way, from the president 
right down to everybody except Congress .... Congress didn't buck
him, but every secretary of the treasury bucked him at every step
that he made -- including the president.  So, in 1912, he resigned. 

And then he wrote a book called: "THE HISTORY OF A CRIME AGAINST 
THE FOOD LAW."  He gave the manuscript to the printer, and it
disappeared!  How many manuscripts do you suppose, in the history 
of the World, have ever disappeared in the hands of the printer?
I'd be willing to gamble that that was the only one that ever
disappeared.  So then, he spent ten years revising it, revamping it
and bringing it up-to-date. He republished it about 1927. (It was
more than ten years.) It was put into all of the book stores, but it
disappeared before anybody could buy it. Then he saw that the power
was so tremendous against him that he thought .....  If he were a 
man living today, you know what he'd have done. He would have just
piled them out there by the hundreds of thousands and made a 
fortune on them.                                                 

But he was an honorable man. So he refused to print any more copies,
but gave the last few thousand to the various libraries all over the
country. They DISAPPEARED from the libraries, one after another
until, I think, the final survey showed that only four libraries 
had a copy. Dr. Lee of the Lee Foundation did one of the greatest
services to this country when he got a hold of that book and
threatened to republish it. He asked permission to republish it.
But the wife of Dr. Wiley, who was a much younger woman than the
doctor himself, said no. She said that she was perfectly satisfied
with the way that the Food and Drug Administration and the United
States Government were handling it. She was possibly more than
satisfied. And for very good reasons. And was she a sad woman when
recently they came out with the fifty-year stamp in his honor, and
they had a big celebration and a big fete. She looked like one of
the most unhappy women I have ever seen. 

Let's get back to Dr. Wiley. He died in the 1930s. His book was
never read, but by very few people. When Dr. Lee wanted to revise
it, he wasn't allowed to. So he revised the last chapter, in
defiance of the copyright. The copyright still had several years to
run. (I don't know whether or not it has run out yet.) Then he went
ahead and he found that they couldn't do anything. They were afraid
to do anything. So he published the whole book. You can now buy it
from the Lee Foundation for about three dollars. I have a copy here
that I have used a great deal. And I want to bring out a few points
in here that the Public doesn't realize. And the reason I'm doing 
it is because I want you to realize WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST!

I went down here to buy some water yesterday from the drug store --
some good water. Well, we went to four places before we found any,
and finally found some mountain water in a two-quart bottle: eighty
cents. So I paid for three of the bottles. That's all he had. And as
he was wrapping them up and getting them ready, I said: "It seems
like a terrible shame that in a nice, beautiful city like this, we
can't have a convention without having such terrible, filthy water
that we have to go out and buy our water. And I don't say that
because the water in the Mississippi River is filthy. I'm talking
about what you have permitted them to add to it. I'm just wondering
if you're in cahoots because you're making a nice pile of money
selling other kinds of water."  Now, that woke him up. And I hope 
he stays awake.

But the Public is under the impression that we are protected!
Go out and talk to your friends and your relatives. They'll think
you're a crazy nut if you say there's anything wrong with our food.
                         (to be continued)
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    To penetrate the smokescreen of mass-media fraud is to learn of
    the staggering realities and the resultant emergencies festering 
    beneath the surface of public awareness.  If WE fail to tell the
    American People -- who, then, will tell them?  And what will be 
    the price to be paid by all of us for the deluded state of the 
    TV-mesmerized American People?

    Please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer 
    bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
    both on and off campus.    

         John DiNardo