The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-17

champions in the realm Of the Iron Prince.
Even in the Imperial Parliament he finds
in 80 distinguished a representative as Herr
Richter an able and jealous advocate OF his
rights. An advance copy Of the consular
reports for April brings US Herr Richters
great hog speech in the Reichstag, a cleaf
and forcible presentation Of the case from
a German point OF view which leaves the
Prince Chancellor no ground to stand on.
Herr Richter shows that the Federal Coun.
Gil another name for Bismarck) has broken
the law Of Its W country, (which permits
It to decree a temporary prohibition LOT
sanitary reasons, while here is a case oil
unlimited prohibition for which sanitary
reasons have not been and cannot be
shown.
1t has been declared in support OF the
Governments proposition that 1.-THE dan
ger from the.eating OF American hog meat
/, at lesst six times greater than from the
eating Of the home products" II this be
true Herr Richter wants TO know where
are the sick, where are the dead?" Not a
single case is specified. Richter quotes
the distinguished p%athologist Virchow,
who has carefully investigated the subject.
virchow declares that the prohibition sis
in no manner justified" that up to the
present time he has been able to find but
one case, and that was in the year 1874, in
which the trichins disease was produced
by theeating Of American hog meats" DR..
Schultz, Government medical advisor at
Minden says: "The assertion that the
trichiua which appear in great masses in
American prepared meats have lost,
through the manipulation to which they
are subjected, their power Of reproduction
in the human system must still be main.
tanned; Notwithstanding the enormous con.
sumption Of these meats there has not
bsen a single casa in which the sharpest
kind OF diagnosis has revealed the pres
euce OF trichina." American bacon Is 30
much cheaper than the home product that
1t is, says Richter 'for many persons the
only meat diet available" and this is true Of
his own Westphalia, celebrated for its
hams, where the people have demonstrated
against the prohibition.
Herr Richter made a strong point against
the government, and excited the chamber
to great hilarity," by showing that the
government had made up a considerable
part OF its case from the advertising
pamphlet OF a New York house engaged in
forwarding hog products. This house, with
more enterprise than fairness, set forth
that western packers were indifferent in
the matter Of inspection, that theirs was the
only genuine. 1.-THE dreadful stories" says
Herr Richter, (which New York business
men have circulated about their COMPETE
tors in tho West form what the Imperial
Chancellor has communicated to the
Federal Council on the condition Of the
American hogs" But the Chancellor did
not tell the Council, or the Reichstag or the
people that be had drawn his information
from the advertisement Of a business house
which might have some bias in the
premises.
Thus far Bismarck has our hog by the
throat, but there Is a tremendous pressure
at home which may move him. The manu-
featuring districts are greatly disturbed.
Their cheap meat diet is denied them, and
they have heard Of our threats to r~etaliate
by shutting out the increasing importations
OF their iron and wooden products. Our
commercial agent at Dusseldorf, an "inno.
cent abroad" begins to have a vague sus-
picion Of what this all means. He
has "heard it limited, &c" that "the
chief object OF the prohibition is
to force the population to raise
its own pork" Something Of this kind
leaked out on this side several months ago.
We can raise no objection to a tariff for
protection, or to prohibition for protection;
but what ofends US and wounds our ma
tional pride is that our American hog is
given a bad name without just cause or
provocation.
1t is against the false pretense that We
Gle our protest and for which we may
think it e~xpedient to retaliate. We can
beat the Imperial Chancellor at this little
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