Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-01-11
New SeriestVol. %. No. q

The American producing and packing
interests understand that it is not trich-
iua in our pork but an unusually large
crop of hogs on German soil this year,
for which remunerative prices are de
manded by German producers, that has
prompted this exclusion. 1t is d neces-
sity of the tremulous political situation
in Germany that Bismarck should make
himself solid with all classes of pro-
ducers, and he is now excluding Amsri
can leather-which is great interest in
Germany-for the same reason, and only
very incidentally for revenue.
TRICHINA IN PORK.
AS for tIichina in pork, Moses prOba-
bly, discovered this drawback earlier
than Bismarck, but the discovery has
not prevented the almost universal use
of pork in Germany. and trichina has
been known in that country from time
immemorial, attributable in a large part
to practice of eating raw slices of it
on rye bread. | am not all advocate for
the eating of pork by any nation, su es-
pecially since have had the wisdom of
Muses. confirmed to ME by my old Ger
man friend, George Keohline, formerly
of this county, who lately told me that
he had killed thousands of hogs in his
time (Some of them in Germany, l
think and never in all that time had
killed dozen that were not more or less
diseased.
If the action of Bismarck presented a
case analogous to that Of the Chinese in
their efforts to prevent the introduction
of the baneful opium drug at The hands
of the British, we might afford 10 give
it our moral support, but where IL is
done under the thin preteXt of trichina,
and intended only to create Il monopoly
of trlchina at home, we can well afford
to abide our time, knowing that the ap-
petite, as in the case of liquor, will grow
by what it feeds on, and that the demand
for American pork, trichina and all,
will assuredly set in again by virtue of
the necessity for cheap competitive
supply. People who work hard for seant
wages must needs get a good deal of
pork for shilling.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Turn which way we will, the Ameri-
can farmer is practically master of the
situation. Pork and beef are both high
this year, on account of Inst years short
crops all around, i'll live stock and cere-
ais, but in another year, with the new
lands and the old lands jointly stimu :
lated by present prices, we will see i'm
mense crops, and our surplus will force
its way into every nation in Europe.
They cannot resist our comparatively
low prices. Fortunately, however. the
American producer has his greatest and
most reliable market at home. Ii the
figures of the London Times are correct,
we shall have greater market in the
future than in the past. The census
shows that the growth of cities, towns
and villages in this country OutSLrlpS by
far that of the rural districts. There is
Al per cent of our people on farms in one
capacity and another, and about 80 per
cent who are non competitors with The
farmer, and consumers of his products
This, l may. say, without introducing
anything OF political character into
these remarks, is the reliance of the
American farmer for home price that
will protect him against either the ex-
actions of transportation or the cUmpe-
titiOns of AL over supply in foreign
markets.
DIVERsIFICATION OF INDUSTRY.
1t is safe to assume that this home
market will at least keep relative pace
with the supply of agricultural products
in the future. The tendency to "A diver
sficatiOn of industry was never more
marked than now. / remarked early in
this address that one of The old ailments
of agriculture was the lack of markets
for its products. Two hundred years
ago the employments of the world were
limited in number and the number of
employees in each industry were also few.
The consumptive demands of the masses
were few as compared with to-day. Look
at the list of consumers who are now
tributary to the farmer throughout the
endless multIplicatiOns and ramiticatiOns
of trade. Like the sands of the sea, they
can scarcely be numbered for multitude.
There are, presume, more workers in
iron, steel, tin, copper, and other metals
than were employed In all the mechan
ical industries of Europe 100 years ago.
And these workers, though their ndme.
is legion, are as but one grain of sand in
the procession of the hOur-glaSs. The
Of glass and pOtters ware
are almost as numerous, as are also the
great army of wOOd-wOrkers, paper rp-
eratives, textile fabricators, and leather
The list is too numerous to
attempt details. There are, in a word,
untold millions Of them, and every day
that passes adds a new industry under
some classification. Look at the multi
tudeS that are now required 10 attend to
the transportation demands of this coun-
I rsNl-s 4 tGaa
that the invention of telegraphy has
added to the consumers of farm prod
ucts. Look at the insurance business
at the indefinite subdivisions of the
department-at the constant
" lengthening list of the learned pro-
fes.ions. Lastly, look what politics alone
has done for you in swelling the number
of officeholders under the National, State
and municipal governments of
this country to over million of men
who toll not neither do they spin in an
agricultural way. and yet are among the
best feeders, and therefore the most prof.
liable patrons of the farmer.
GROWTH OF CONSUMERS OF FARM
PRODUCTS.
There is no end of the arts and sci
ences. They are the light of the world
from which lamp after lamp may be lit
without diminishing the original flame.
There are to be LOndOns in America.
We already, in one hundred years, have
the rivals of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
st. Petersburg. Already we have in our
short existence, close together, Boston.
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
If it has been thus in the green tree what
will it be in the dry? No Chicago man
worthy Of the name expects less than a
million of people at the next census. and
st. Lonis, like the colonel of the crack
regiment in the war, who called for
detail to be baptized because there was
a revival in rival regiment, will split
herself to count as many as Chicago.
l have spoken of great cities, but who
will enumerate the cities of the second
class, the large towns and the innumer-
able villages of the future in this coun