Transcript TR - consumer protec..

TR – CONSUMER PROTECTION
• Pure Food and Drug Legislation
– Medical Knowledge
– Hydropathy, Homeopathic remedies
– Difficulty diagnosing
– Proliferation of useless/harmful drugs
• Dr. S. B. Hartman – peruna
• No federal regulation
• Copyright laws
– Progressive Response
– Samuel Hopkins Adams
• Journalist
• Wrote about remedies
• Colliers – 3 articles in October, November of 1905
– 1st – general criticism of medicine
– 2nd – Peruna (competitors – Dr. J. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, Paine’s Celery Compound)
– 3rd – Liquozone – germicide/bactericide
– Harvey Wiley
• Head of Bureau of Chemistry in Dept. of Agriculture
• Pushes Congress to do something
– Publishes 1, 499 pages – borax, formaldehyde
– Pushes for “Chemical Honesty”
– By January 1906, 11 bills introduced – none pass
• The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
– Devoted socialist
– "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the
stomach."
– Senator Albert Beveridge tells TR about book
– Roosevelt sees Sinclair as a muckraker
– TR confirms Sinclair’s claims
– Supports legislation
– June 30, 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act
– Same day – Meat Inspection Act
• Significance
– Expansion of federal government
– Moralism of progressives
– Beginning of government involvement - would increase in 20th
century