, 1881-03-13
THE PERIL OF THE PIG.
An English Paper on the Trtchfnosis
Question.

| ~ oAChC4"Lu anu AsllcS, B!UOIlllly mITmufln
| that their glory is departed, and that tn
prosperity Of PorkopoIis is temporarily su:
pended? Do the niagnates of State all
!. Dearborn streets, Calumet and Wabash ayt
, nues, feel bad'? How stands it with tn
spectators OF the Chicago Board of Trad
and the pork-packers and ham-curers of til
. Union Stock-Yards? Assuredly. within til
last few days, events have occurred in Eu
rope Of nature to make all those conccrne,
in the gigantic pork trade In the Phnni:
City look and feel very serious indeed. A
the meeting Of, the Agricultural Society il
Paris ON Tuesday it was stated that the Gov
ernment Of the United States had sunmaril,
prohibited the importation Of wines comins
from France, ostensibly OFT sanitary grounds
but in reality as a deliberate act OF retali;
ton for the exclusion, through dread o
trlchlnosls, Of American pork from the terri
tory Of the French Republic. 4 resolution
was passed by the Society calling on the
French Government to protest against q
measure the scope Of which, it is to be hoped,
has been greatly exaggerated, even If it be
also stated that the Belgian Government has
repudlated any idea Of following the action
| or France, no case OF trichinoSis having as
yet occurred in the dominions of King Leo
pold, whereas in: France IN entire fam
fell parasitical disease, death in one
case ensuing. To be snre, the pig
from the flesh of which the family had led
was not American but home bred. Mean
wh'le, the reply given by, Mr.. Nuudella il
asked by AIE. Dixon-ilartialld, seems caicu-
lated, from one point Of view, to restore the
heightened Visages of the pig-iobbers and
pork~packers OF the Great West TO their nor
| r. ifft1ht7 c}S1tSv h IL
for Eveslanl inquired Of the Vice President
OF the Council whether it had come under
ms notice that the importation of pork fron,
! the United States had been prohibited in
| France, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal, and Greece. in consequence Of the prev
aalence Of tricfinosis, and the apparent hope
leSuess OF inducing the poorer classes to dis
infect the pork, and so prevent disease; and
whether he was prepared to forbid the i1npor-
ireland.
Mr. Mundella proceeded to explain that he
had READ the statements referred to by Mr..
Dixon-Hartland, but that he had no special
information on the subject, and had applied
at the Foreign Office for the precise facts Of
the matter III hand. The annual importa-
tion OF foreign pork into this country, he
added, exceeds nine and half million hull
fred.Welght, or more than twenty pounds
and the estimated va lue. Of this enormous
mass exceeds nine and a half million pounds
sterling. Nearly the whole of, this dead meat
for 1t was exclusive Of the vast numbers Of
Srates G,nat'o o-saa,,, Atom ,,d t1e uiiltea
and SIr. Munde,a thomgI,t *1it II wa"IG h.. ;;
rrpat harshin 70 t,e 'nnT sr'le;, "yu - p1 ~ =
otf .food-supply which so long had
been abundant and regular. Oniy great
svnrrant tba a,,n,too eoi, a.on'
A@ntn Srr rnnJtiio hed fhot1 tr;ob;tasts EGuosG
existed elsewhere than in America It Ger
venrs n Nortf, Il" 1;armony ,nd = IL ~ solg
3nTas,f - ~ Rnr,;,, a..u ~ - ~ ~
3rmest ,r 10 r.s+o,rant ,a.ar nrd,rs tnas Z
witI1ont f,r n,icrnscota at t,a 1--we
time. The VicePresitlert % also nojnted n M 11 OUT
i:nver,,mnnt Rnar hnt tEat T. ,nnda l 81, ,s,e,,
ton - amv o,naa "S ~ t;ohi; ~ ~ t
co1ntrv Thrae vnnrs 400 thara Ea', ~ haaE smaa
an ontbreak NJ disnase m hoard ono of ph, tha
trai,,;ng sh;ns " hf fa Tn u"ntn m oe " ee
Wncn the Dute NJ Rirh,oond ond Gnr,inn
vac r. off;ne e ,voe osia s;,a;in na,o ti ueso
tn that mt hv Sfr % n;xnn,HorfianuT s upss.1"n nnd
in he renv he stoti Hat ''.,o, tmar,nIe., ,ulu,
onlv IN the o thoro@h cooEine. oe ~ touie thu
nnr}~ and ~ that thara A s,.es rs,eon ~ ute ~
bpIieve that tta I,roct;ca If a"tno ,"nnrfect
lv-cookeli sausages and nnrE m tha Tnnti- t
nent materially Contributed to I'll the SD spread Of |
r..m'arEaI m rme,sdav ~ was nnt tha cai.s ~
t',is "o,,mtr ~ any thay as .Us me S3e ~
reason for prohibting @ the s eeso imoortaton of Of
nnrls from The finited states tTa d;d not o
stS M, Te i wnae s 4
,;nninr ofFaot,nn ~ ,,,.h fnra;~, ..ao 1or, +;
snid ~ . s,,hnct aT;s"s from - ris,.asa ~ tha
s,,;no1 al 1Inriny iifa ~ from fha carcass ha;nn]
tno hastily. careiesly. and not tfnronehI1
hae nnt I,aen ent;raiv orrnst,d II IL o. III
n'.ot,t o' oortn;n thot ,,on fora;a,ors ~ ~