New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-20

nssses have connections with the eating Of the meat
the case.
In the communications of the health
office (Gesndheits anti Of late date, there is report
that IN one place business s made OF using diseased
meat in preparing the canned beef lt Is stated that
doctor OF medicine who inspeeteda certain factory loha
10000 pounds of diseased horsefesh ana mnt, i (
ton; further 200 pounds sausage (~ursD, colofe'i
with ochTe in order to mp its bad appearance,
lie Gays tha, he never saw such nauseatg tst the
flesh Of diseased animals is used for preserves Inc
OF preparing the meats Tor canning gives no We
that all inferior and contagious matter Is desIoye
cannot admit that American sausage ana cannea leas
are so necessary to our existence tnat we can pass
their little defects The 5OOOO0O pounds Oh cann9 i
meat and sausage which were Imported into germany III
1870 may be calculated TO have been produeed iroI
10000 haffat oxen, One-fh part otthe oxen consuS9
II Berlin The abandonment OF this mpOrtatlon , wou
be much easier from the fact that the prlce-la2I MAJ
is not reasonable, because the cans are hled WIN
worthless meats
Under date of June II, 1891, Consul Bridgland,
at flavre. France, re orts that the stock OF Amer
lean salt pork at that port, which amounted 10
$4,000 packages on June 18, 1880, amounted TO
only $500 packages on Juno l, 1881, and but 1or
the delay of the delivery of this meat, IN eonse-
quence of the false Inspection there would not have
been fifty cases of salt meat in that port. Consul
BIdgland continues:
The price has gone up within the last month 60 per
cent and before the order rescnded ever rescndeu
the working people Of France, outside OF farming inter
eats, will rebel they now doing in qulet way,
against prices which to protect twosevents o. the
population of France who are engaged in French farm
ing products, when the other hyeseYents arc 10 pay
consumers, consisting OF mechanics and aporing
people OF France in protest Of the order ana
Of working people Of Havre have signed peton ASK
ing for It's resicndng Beef in the markets here haa
advanced % per cent IN the last six weeks
poultry and other articles CT flesh iood proportonaeV
The Consul suggests repriSat rs remedy, ana
among other suggestions makes the following:
There not 10 per cent Of wines imported into the
United states FROM France that are really pure wmes az
am informed There is scarcely steamer coming from
Spain to this port that does not bring cargo OF cneap
Spanish wines that are compounded and shipped os
genuine French vines Logwood s usea by tne snlpioau
IN inc Manufacture OF WIN Ordinalre v va u ~ m
spectiou French wines, the French arc making
cent OF the wines admitted into our ports: ny sh3a
exclude French silk fabrics the French exclude
our cotton 9OrlcS Ihey cannot e4e.e oo raw %
without having the grass grow In the streets Where the
cotton factories are established
Consul Wilson. at Brussels Belgium, reports that
the Belgium Government adheres o its wise ana
sensible policy" with regard 70 the admission into
that country of American pork ana 0ther 1904 pro-
ducts and quotes from speech OF Monsieur Graux,
the Belgian Minister OF k1liaAce, the following re-
markablc passage:
To stop these inportations would he to devote the
WORKING classes to misery, If not TO death; 10 obstruct
their eutry by means OF customs duties Wond De o n-
pose the prices which would only bencnt the
landowners and enable thcn TO Keep helF ren5 aV tne
present high rates and that would necessarily tehd 20
augment the rice of labor. For the price OF food
products increases the wages OF the lab"rhg caases
must increase also. and costly production ~o1ia q
render 1t mpussi lie for manufacturers successfully
to contend with foreign competitors seeing tha our eX
portation depends as much upon inc Oh our
amonst In order 10 protect the agricultural interests
~ the country and prevent the owners Of agricultural
lands from suffering that reduction OF their rents when
the common and universal law Of supply and demand
imposes would have Us, by stopping these npOrtuons
make compact with famine aud deliver our ludus- -al
and llborng classes 10 misery, decline ana rum.
Consul Wilson adds:
But, notwithstanding this very sensible speech OF
Monsieur Graux the Minister Of Finance, would re-
mark that the free admission OF our p0Fk INTO belgin
and the removal of all official Introduction OF its
entry into ot,er countries will us but little II tne
UcOe continue be frightened from its by the idea
hat death NAV be lurking for all they know, in every
case of hams or bacon that from shores. And
this fright fear, will continue to exist To the grea
trichna and rlchmB diseases impertecty under
stood AMI the people OF Europe are taught To DeneVe
tlat American pork only Is dangerous