The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
THE AMERICAN HOG.
European Combination Back of Germany's
Order of Exclusion.

"A european combination Back Of Germany's
Order of Exclusion.
National Republican.
The State Department is in receipt of large
numbers of inquiries from firms engaged in
the packing and expectation of meats, as
we'll as from merchants and Others not ex-
porters or packers, for Information about the
American hog at home and abroad. Com
mon people as we'll as royal personages are
just now paying great deal of attention to
the grunter, and he threatens to boom into
even more than the prominence he has yet
enjoyed. Commercial and trade papers
throughout the country are making united
protest against the Bismarckian policy of ex-
cludng American products from the Ger
man Market" said veteran attache of the
department. Every mail brings jim from one
to a dozen copies of newspapers of influence
containing editorials devoted to discussion
of this question. They are generally in
telligently written and to the point. To
my mind this last action of the Bismarck
government will inevitably result in the
adoption of retaliatory measures by the
American Congress next winter. The mere
exclusion of pork from Germany is DotEing
Our pork trade with Germany is not q crop
in the bucket, but there is, back Ci all
European combination, or conspiracy, if you
please, to drive American meats from every
foreign market, and the methods employed
are so grossly unfair that this government
must, for the protection of its interests and
the inter of its citizens, command a halt
To longer ignore this question would be a
humiliating confession of timidity and weak
ness. Foreign nations will interpret nom
action under such provocation as a license
To hut t,,oIa ,f
American production that comes
into competition with their own
merchandise, and they will not hesitate to
take every possible advantage of u.s. They
will conclude that if this government will
not resent an open, shameless, and utterly
lnexcusable attack on one OF the great in
terests of the country it will not resent any,
thing, and they will not only bespatter us
with mud, but they will rub it in. When
France decided to exclude American pork
from its markets on the pretense that the
meat was impure, it was shown by invinci-
BILE evidence that there was nothing in the
charge, and that American meats are as
healthy as the meats produced in any country
on the globe. The French meat
merchants carried their point, how
ever. Then Austria took the alarm,
and to protect its Hungarian meat
interests against threatened American COM
petition that government declared the Ameri-
can nOS 10 De an impure anu generally ais
reputable brute, although we had not at
tempted to introduce pork into that country.
Now comes Germany, a country that con-
sumes only about one-fifth as much
American pork as the little kingdom of Bel
GUM, and it, too, issues an order against the
admission of American pork. The effect of
this is to prejudice the European mind
against the article attacked and drive it out
Of the market altogether. No amount of
proof of the purity OF our meats can put
stop to this BUSINESS. The verdict was agreed
upon before line of testimony was heard,
and the jury is packed against us. The
only way to protect our commerce is to fight
back"
Then taking up another branch OF the sub
ject he continued: "The United States holds
a commanding position. Europe is com
PEELED to take our breadstuffs, and we can get
along nicely without French and German
laces silks and fine manufactures For in