Wiley and the Whiskey Industry: Strategic Behavior in the Passage of the Pure Food Act
本文重新审视1906年《纯净食品与药品法》的立法过程，指出威利并非单纯的消费者捍卫者，而是与直馏威士忌生产商结盟，共同推动法案以服务私人利益，而非保护公众利益。
In discussions of the fight for the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, Harvey Washington Wiley is usually portrayed as the consumers' champion, the Whiskey Trust as their adversary. Messrs. High and Coppin argue otherwise. Wiley's correspondence from 1904 to 1906 reveals a deep split between whiskey producers, with the makers of straight whiskey lining up behind Wiley's pure food bill and the rectified whiskey producers fighting against it. The authors argue that both sides used the consumer only as a convenient focus for their rhetoric; their activities thus provide another example of regulatory legislation passed to further the goals of private interests rather than to protect the public interest.