I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing more or less opium would feel that he was in danger if the public knew of it, and with a pliable public official it would be easily possible for him to keep this damaging fact from public knowledge. Charles H. Fletcher
N.Y. Times, Apr. 15, 1892. On the impact that the predecessor to 1906 Act (“Wiley Act” on Food and Drugs) could have on the unscrupulous – an invitation to bribery.