Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-19
this State than in any other part of the

this State than in any other part of the
wheat-growing zone Of the world. Your sd-
vantages lie in two directions-frst, the great
facilities Tor the use OF machinery in plowine,
owing and harvesting; and second, tbs sb-
ssnce of storms during the harvest period"
This latter element he estimates as al advar-
tage euusl to twenty per cent. of net gain SIS
against other portions of the wheat-growing
belt. As to the future productions of cereals
in this State, he remarked: " You now export
one-sixth of the wheat product of your coun-
try. 1t is possible for you to raise the pro.
portion TO third within ten years"
If the report made by this distinguished
economist TO the Government, which through
him instituted the inquiry, was ever made
public in Germany, it was not reproduced in
America; but it was about the time of his
return that the German Government discov.
cred that American pork-which is consumed
in America by fifty.two millions of people
without injurious result-wss peculiarly ia.
sal to the German constitution, and its intra-
duction into that country violation of san
itary laws. Here, then, we have series of
American Influences directly antagonistic to
German interests-at least those interests OF
Germany of which Bismarck and his Govern
ment are the opponents. With nations as
with men, antagouisms are causes of quarrel.
Rochefoucauld said, Human action runs
parallel with human interest" and the say.
ing would be equslly true if applied to hui
man friendship, either on the Individual or
national plan The conflict of interest be.
tween America and Germany has its origin
in inherent conditions, which neither coun-
try could eliminate and which neither is
in tbs slightest degree disposed TO change
1t is the very bathos Of sbsurdity to
suppose that with this conflict Min
lister Sargent has anything whatever to
do; and it is equally absurd to sup
pose thst tbs Lasker resolutions are either
Immediately or remotely the cause of the
impending antsgonism. Minister Sargent re-
ported to his Government what that Gov
eminent already knew, to wit that the inter
diction against American pork was not based
upon the unhealthfulness Of that article. He
had o right to do this because ne ia the
American Minister at Berlin, and because
bis statement is exactly true. American
pork is admitted into every other pork-eat-
ing country Of the world. 1t is just IS
healjhf ia Germany as in England Holland
OF Spain. 1t is in constant use In every
American family, without dele.erious re-
suits. In short. to have interdic.ed Ameri-
can porl. sinply upon the ground of protect
ing German production would have justified
and called forth retaliatory prohibitions.
Bismarck plainly desired 20 retain the Amer
lean trade for Germany, and at the same time
prohibit the importation Of American pork,
thus protecting the home product. Whoever
holds 8 contrary theory to this must admit
that pork unfit to be eaten in Germany is IN
at to be eaten in Americs, and thereby JUS
tify every Board of Health in every city on
this continent in prohibiting the sale and use
Of the article. For the report above alluded
b., Minister Sargent fell heir 60 the ill-wili Of
the Government organs. He has been the
obisct of much unreasonable and malignant
abuse at the hands of the papers which the
German sutocrat controls.
In recent pedantic and sophomoric ar
ticle, the San Francisco Chronicle labored TO
show the great value to the Diplomatic
service of the country rendered by certain of
tbs American luerati. 1t advised the Presi-
dent 10 remova Minister Sargent ard appoint
in his stead some distinguished American
author. 1t expoaed its ignorance of the un-
DERIVING cause Of the existing complications
by charging Mr.. Sargent with having created
them, and revealed its motive by insisting
upon his removal to geatiiy the spleen Of the
German autocrat. 1t is simply absurd 70
suppose that any author, however gifted, csn
harmOniza TIE antagonisms OF interest which
originate in the very foundations or both the
political economic systems OF the two couE-
tries; and it is un-Americsn, as iS is con-
temptible, for an American Journal TO join
in the cutlery raised against the American
Minister for having discharged HE plain duty
to his own Government. just so long IS
America ia an asylum fox political refugees Of
ell countries and so long az we make United
States Senators out Of German traitors, just
that long will we earn and enjoy tie hatred OF
tae Governments against which The treason Of
these refugees was directed. So long as
America is used Gs tie basis of operations
against the Governments from which natur-
allied citizens have eXpatriated themselves
by oaths OF allegiance, that long We may ex-
pect diplomatic complications with these
Governments.
Fenianisn has sought to embroil England
and America in the accomplishment of OBJ
iec.B and ends far more Irish than American,
while nothing has bsen more common than
the passage of resolutions by Congress sx-
pressing sympathy with movements sntsgo.
nistic to the British Government, and With
sc-callad patriots who wera regarded by thst
Government IS outlaws. The naturslizsd
citizen.hip which makes the United States
the baes Gf operations essiDst foreign powers
is, at BEST e bsggay!y cnnc, psiou Of the rights
aud dieui,iss conferred by such natura-iza-
ton. When European indictments uss The
State Legislatures and the National Congress
TO afford moral support for principles regard
and az hateful to those monarchies as TREASON
Itself, we must not be surprised TO find our
Government Gi5trusted and dislilIed and
when, to all this, there is added az ecOnc mic
forcs tending TO further impovsrishmen5 of
the agricultural classes OF Europe, as in the
case of Ireland and Germany, We Can scarcely
expect to maintain any high degree OF popu-
larity with imperialisis absolutists, and
autocrats of the Bismarck school. The Las'
ker resolution did not differ in tone, temper,
or design from the many instances Of similar
action on the part of Congress relating to
Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Ital-
ism, and English reyolutionigts. Some Of the
wisest Statesmen Of this country have deemed
it the daty OF America to give liberty, in any
part of tie world the upstinted support Of the
whole moral influence of Americs. Some Of
shess instances have f0aad high justification /;
others are ameaable to the charge of being
founded in political demogosism. Is is re-
lated az an incident of the passage of the
Lasker resolutions through the House Of
Representatives, that when they were resd
from the Clerks de-k, profound silsno9 fell
upon the House. The Speaker called for an
affirmative vote in the usual form, but found
no reponse. The call for NEGATIVE vote WAS
received in like silence. lie then announced
that there nrst be some affirmative action or
the resolution would be lest, whereupon, the
author of the resolutions voted AYE" and
by this enc vote this important action was
taken. The members of the House, while
not comprehending the nature of the seton
being taken, appreheuded clearly enough that
the resolutions related 20 matters and things
with which the German-American was famil.
lar and each member was probably more
wiling that the Government should cut 6
grotesque end absurd figure in the eyes Of
the world than that he individually should
impair bis political prospects. When Ameri-
ca hiss become more American, and not be-
fore that time, the action of the American
Congress concerning foreign powers and for
ei2n affairs may be expected to become decent
and dignified.
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