Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-29
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The New Gersn u Tariff.

NEW YORK, July aeth--Tha
Times thinks the method that the
German Parliament has adopted
for enforcing its new tariff, which
prohibits the passage on railway
trains through the Empire of goods
in Uond, eau hardly fail to prove
highly advantageous to the export
trade of this country. Nearly
seventy per cent of the entire for
ign trade of Austro- Hungary passes
through Germany. The currents of
trade will be greatly disturbed.
Austria must largely depend upon
the wearisome navigation of the
Danube and on the Adriatic Sea, to
act as doorways for her export and
import trade, while Russia's only
openinge will be various ports on
the Baltic and the Black Sea. AL
ready attention has been turned
this way. The use of these various
water routes will, however, neces-
state higher charges for transport
tation than are now paid by Aus
trian and Russian importers and
exporters; and as these two coun-
tries are our chief rivals in the
work of supplying the world with
breadstufts. each Increase in the
cost Of landing bushel of grain in
the markets of England and France
will form an. inducement for the
purchaser to buy wheat which
comes from America, rather than
that grown in Eastern Europe.
Even, with their admirable faciIi-
ties for reaching>sh g market, wheat
growers in Austria and RGsSia
have been gradually losing ground
in competition with our farmers,
and the present movement on the
part of Germany threatens to de-
prive them Of large part of the
trade which they still retain.
California Fish and Fruit for Eng.
iaud-salss of American Beef
NEW YORK, July 2Sth.-The
Anglo American Food Supply
Company, recently organized in
London, advertise in prospectus,
to supply California fish and fruits
among popular American supplies
to be imported into England. The
average sale in London of Amerig
can beef is now computed at about
five thousand quarters per week,
and there is not half dozen butch
ers in London who do not sell it.
OF this, only about three hundred
quarters are retaied as American
beef, being sold at extortionate
prices as English beef. 1t is stated
that but for the greed and unfair
ness Of English butchers, people
could purchase meat at greatly re-
duced prices.
The Panama Canal Project.
NEW YORK, July 2S.-The World
has an editorial on the Panama
Canal, in which it says: General
Grants nomination to the Presi-
dency of the Canal Company
show that what the promoters of
the canal really want from this side
of the Atlantic is not American
money, but an authoritative assur-
ance that the United States does
not mean to put any impediments
in their way. The writer thinks it
may as well be understood that
anybody who invests bis money in
the shares of the Panama Canal
Company does so at the risk of
buying what may be termed, for
courtesy's sake, an international
lawsuit of somewhat colossal pro-
portions. The case of the Straits of
Magellan is then cited, and the re-
sponsibility of Colombia pointed
out in giving foreign powers an ex
elusive water way through the con-
tinent. 1t is not to be conceived,
says the World, that the United |
States government will now be
content with anything less than a
complete and eflectual neutraliza.
ton, under guarantees satisfactory
TO this country, in the case of the
proposed Panama Canal. The plans
OF De Lesseps are wholly impracti-
cable from scientific point of
view. This may be open to discus
sion, as certainly it is not within
the province of laymen to consider
such question. But, practicable
or impracticable, the duty of the
United States government in the
case is as clear as day. Nor do we
doubt that it will be done, and
lone without unnecessary delay.
Possibly wise men will feel in
,lined to wait until the results of