New-York tribune., 1871-01-13
U4s SALT LOST ITS SAVOR'

| The World, in its role of dcfamer- general
of every thing American and culogist OF every
| thing foreign, returns to the charge against
American Salt, especially that made in our
state, as incapable of preserving Meats! 1t
asks us TO look.at samples Of Syracuse and OF
West India Salt, and dcduce from COMPARE
son the worthlessness of the former.
Now the issue which The World seeks to
raise in 1871 was decided, after far moro
conclusive trial, in 1852. by direction of the
then Secretary of Waf, three hundred barrels
of Pork were packed in this City, one-half
with Syracuse, tho other with turks
Island Sali-each hog being split IN two,
and one-balf OF the carcass packed with Syra-
| cuse, the other with West India Salt Inc
porl, thus cured was sent TO VARIOUS Military
posts, including Fort Trumbull, Conn, Fort
| Adams, Il. T., Fort Mitlin, Pa, Fortress Mon-
roe, Va, Fort Moultrie S. c., Key West Fla,
Pascagoula Miss, and some was sent to Cali
foinia and Washington TerritoIy-evcTy odd
numbered barrel being packed in Syracuse
Salt; every epen-numbercd in Turks Island,
| and one of each sent together to every post.
After months of Summer feryOr had been
| endured, these barrels were opened and their
contents tested and the uniform testimony of
| The Army officers who conducted the scrutiny
was that the Dork packed in the coarse Syracuse
| SAT- ,ras at least as nell as, and in some in
stances better cured and preserved than, That
| hacked in the best Turks ISlard Salt. Here are
a part of their reports:
TRIAL At FORT TGUNBULL, Conn. August, iS5]-Fo
a. after boiling, had flavor decidedly rusty No 80 not
perfectly sweet, but much superior to No. 3i
TRIAL AT FORT MIPPLiS, Penn. Aug, ~. l852.-Pork
.si.ul. EE
appeared be the hardest An offensive smell Issued
from No Sc on opening ths barrel, which not the
Gaze in No hroughou the meat was sweetest in
smell Tho picce boiled from No. 55 the swcetest
ard hrmest and apparently the bost preserved.
TRIAL FORT MoULTRIE, y. c., Aug. 2i ie52.-Tbe
examiners up their observations with tho remark
that the Roard Of tho opinion that for immediate
the difference between the two barrels Is very slight;
but judgng from the appearance and;retcnve rnness
of the pork In tho barrels tDy think No 81 Will re-
present state OF preservation longer than no o.
"Tbe inside OF tln pieces in No. "a were of slightly
gIrenish nge."
TRIAL AT CasTIE PISCKEEY, 2. c., Aug. lS52.-Thc
smell tasteOf decidedly the best nUyOrcl,
that OF No. being strong aud rank
TRIAL AT FORT VASCoUyEg, W T, Aug, ISJ4-Tlio
Of the opinion that the pork barrel No el is
better preserved respect than that in No G2.
We select the foregoing from very much
of ike tenor contained in tho last annual
Report of the Superintendent of the Sole
Springs OF our state, transmitted To the I.cgls-
latlro, Jan II, 1870, and printed at The Argus
Office.
But The WorlR faces these reports Of dis
interested Army officers as follows:
eve have plug for oyery rat-holo TO which TIE
TRIBUSs flies
.Ino price in Now-York, to-day. Jan. 10. 1877, is
Coarse India rock-st cents per " pounds
American roosalt, to cents, per 70 to 70
pounds
"Thus it will re that American salt is.on the
average. cents per busho cheaper than the foreign
West India salt and THs TRIBUNE only piles an
Ossa upon many Pelions OF misstatemen5s.
"We repeat the salt duty is robbery and efber TIIB
TRIBUNE mado deliberate misstatement knew
nothing about its practical use"
Comments bp The 7ribnne.
1t is precisely because we have journals like
The World which systematically disparage
everything American and eulogize everything
foreign that products are deprecated in
our own markets below those Of our foreign
rivals, and the necessity for Protective Duties
thereby intensified. Careless people soy, "lf
I'VE can make NJ cheaply ~ We can import,
"what need of Protection :" The World has
supplied the answer.
The blind prejudice against homemade pro-
ducts is not confined to our people. The Re-
port from which we quote says:
"In England the people long insisted on using salt
made the coast OF France from of much in.
ferior quality to their own salt made at Liverpool Chem
cal analysis proved that this French production called
Bay Salt had fully tweo niue impurities az rtoyed
salt made at Liverpool but blind prejudice paid no at
tention to scientific statements. In 1907 published
Rees Cycopcdia. containing article salt In which
every effort is made to combat ths prejudice and among
other things proposing that tho Government should by
heavy duties foreign SALT force the people into the use
Of home produced salt
Recently, says Prof Cook, many OF the fishermen
on our coast imagined that salt made the Mediterra
mean coasts of France any other for the
curing OF fish. and salt imported largely for that
purpose few years ago. the French fishermen CON-
planned that the salt from their mediterranean coast VIVA
not proper for preserving fish, and that made on tho
Atlantic coast Of France and Portugal was the only
Kind that could he depended upon The French Coy
ernment appc ted commission OF eminent chemlsts
who said that the Mediterranean salt fully equal for
preserving fab to that made the Atlantic coastthe
only difference being that the Mediterranean salt ia
freer from dirt aud little less dequescent"
We close with re-statement of the scior- /
tifc truth that Salt n Salt, whether crystsl- |
lized in England, the West Indies or the
United States. We long for the day when IL
shall he Improbable to depreciate unvarrant-
ably American products in an American citv
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1hs Buffalo Eypress quotes from Mr.. Greeley,s
address on taking the chair of the Republican