moment for having saved his life, would a few weeks later, when
he had forgotten his danger and his fear, decide to sue me for
the value of the cut rope. But I would feel a hearty contempt
for the owner who so acted."

Two laws passed during the second Roosevelt Administration had an
important bearing on the conduct of American business, though in
a different way from those which have already been considered.
They were the Pure Food law, and the Meat Inspection act. Both
were measures for the protection of the public health; but both
were at the same time measures for the control of private
business. The Pure Food law did three things: it prohibited the
sale of foods or drugs which were not pure and unadulterated; it
prohibited the sale of drugs which contained opium, cocaine,
alcohol, and other narcotics unless the exact proportion of them
in the preparation were stated on the package; and it prohibited
the sale of foods and drugs as anything else than what they
actually were. The Meat Inspection law required rigid inspection
by Government officials of all slaughterhouses and packing
concerns preparing meat food products for distribution in
interstate commerce. The imperative need for the passage of this
law was brought forcibly and vividly to the popular attention
through a novel, "The Jungle", written by Upton Sinclair, in
which the disgraceful conditions of uncleanliness and revolting
carelessness in the Chicago packing houses were described with
vitriolic intensity. An official investigation ordered by the
President confirmed the truth of these timely revelations.

These achievements on the part of the Roosevelt Administrations
were of high value. But, after all Roosevelt performed an even