The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-16
THE AMERICAN HOG.
Trying to Introduce Him into
French Society.
WHAT is SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE
Is Sauce for the Gander, and the Crime of
Prohibition in France is Patriotism
in the United States.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The President
sent to the Senate to-day, in compliance
with the Senate resolution, all the CORE
spondence not already Submitted to Con
gress, touching the efforts made by this
government to secure modification or re-
peal by the French government of its de
cree of 1881, prohibiting the Importation
into France of American pork and its
products, and in his letter of tansmissai to
the President Acting Secretary Wharton,
of the state department, says: 'This cor
respondence discloses the important fact
| that the French government now practi-
cally places its exclusion of our pork
products upon economic instead of sanitary
grounds. AS this policy of exclusion as
measure for the protection of the domestic
products of France is applied only to the
United States, the department has not
! failed to protest against the discrimination
as being unjust"
In letter from Reid to Blaine, dated
June IS, 1889, in answer to a letter from the
latter already publis 4, Reid says any
steps taken towards II ling the attention
of the French governn + TO the subject
), would be lnopportune. e also says the
i French government rat favorS the re-
moval of the prohibition On July 49, the
acting secretary wrote I Reid approving
his suggestion.
A letter from W. B. Franklin, commits
sioner general of the United States at the
Paris exposition to Blaine, gives the sub
stance of an interview between Reid and
I Franklin aud Spuller, French minister of
| foreign affairs, at which Spulier admitted
| that the citizens of France did not believe
the consumption of American pork by them
would injure the health of the consumers
4 Spuller added however, there would be
some difficulty in having the prohibition re-
moved ON account of the protec-
tion it is feeling. In response to
an invitation given by Reid to
position 81 u Ter, November 26, 1889, sent a
note stating that the opinion of his col
leagues, who had charge of the health de-
partment, the inspection of the meat shown
in the exhibition would not have the i'm
portance. Reid's letter seemed to give, as
the superior quality of the meat already es-
tabliShed by samples would not prove the
mass. American nog products are equs lily
, good.
Included in the correspondence, is a Letter
from Blaine TO Reid incloSing letter from
the secretary of agriculture giving the his
tory of the ''harsh and unreasonable re-
strictions" to quote Blaine, imposed by the
/ VI IdlOS, 1SELudIy dud
5 Great Britain against the importation of
{ -American live animals and hog products y
7 In his letter, which is dated March 4
1899, Blaine instructs Reid to express the
hope to the French authorities that the
, French government 'may now be prepared
t to extend equitable relief from these I'm
/ just measures Blaine adds that the
r United States ministers to England and
/ Germany have been similarly instructed.
3 Early in July last Reed called on Ribot
e French minister of foreign affairs, and in
/ a letter to Secretary Blaine, dated July II
= he says that during the interview Ribot
;, continued as he had done on every similar
r occasion previously. to state that the agita
, l;on over the Mckinley bill made any &C
: ton on the point extremely difficult. Reed
protested that France was the aggressol
and should take the first STE.
A voluminous letter, dated July 3, wa:
SEM to Rbot by Reid. The American
q minister in this communication endeavoreC
/ to show Ribot the mistake France is max
: ing in including American pork, and quote:
statistics to carry out his argument HI
hints at the possible prohibition of French
= wines by the United States, owing to The
4 growth of the wine industry in thi!
d country, ana refers to the effect such &C
h ton would have on France
On July 4th, $780, Ribot sent note tt
Reid, in which he said the difficulties in the
I way of removing the prohibition had beer
attenuated by measures which wer,
q finally passed or voted Oh by the House O.
u Representatives, and which DO no
u fail to +. Sc just complaints on the part Of
% the French government" (Ribot referred
o to the tariff bill and customs administrative
" bill.
Reed, in a letter to Ribot dated July %
1880, asded pardon for endeavoring to show
l. that this is 2 view of the situation
which the ia sfS do not Warrant ~ ssVhl
}. existing rule as to the exclusion of Ameri
}, can pork has not been monified, says Mr.
q Reid in his letter. 'sNot step to that emf
r so far as known, has been taken. VIVA
evidence of good will, then, il
n this regard has France given, which tn
e United States could be already expected t.
q reciprocate: Besides, there would appea
{ to be no similarity or just relation of an,
/ kind between the two subjects which you
y excellency couples-trench exclusion o
g American pork, and two American bills
" currently called the Mckinley bill and tn
Il customs administrative bill. Nor i
IL any reason apparent why the con
tinuance of one should be justifie
g by your apprehension as to the others
o There is every reason, from the history o
" such legislation in the past, to believe tina
If experience shows defects or injustice il
e the working of American bills, they will b
% modified. The French decree, in spite O
u argument and remonstrance; in spite eve
I of proof that it does nobody any good, ha
Il been tenaciously maintained unchanged TO
D. nine years. The American bills touch al
u countries with absolute impartiality. Th
}; French decree singles out the United State
1T from all other countries and prohibit
y It's products alone, while similar product
7, of the rest of the world are admitted Th
y American bills make no charges agains
"a the quality of the products whose imports
fI0fl hsayy lot nrs Nt<,
:, decree is based upon the indefensibl
Ia charge that the American product is ex
Is Guided as unwholesome, though this charg
IN has been repudiated by the French academ
DC of medicine itself, and though this pro
al hibited and unwholesome product has re
a Gently been crowned by the highest priz
J. of your own exposition. France Is, and ha
10 been for nine years past, a persistent as
ie gressor. She absolutely prohibited the in
a. portation of an American product on il
defensible charges, and she still maintain
Oh this prohibition, i'll spite of the demon
OF strated facts that nothingis thereby game
rs either for its own consumers or its ow
a. producers and the only eppreciable effet
e, is to do injustice to the century of an oil
friend by openly discriminating agains
that friend
After such record and in advance
ps the slightest known movement, how ca
n. France have reason to expect, as your eX
&c cellency indicates, that her evidence
IS good will should now be reciprocated b
70 the United States! He who seeks Justic,
m should first do Justice Much more s
should that nation which seeks friendl
consideration for its merchants, refrai
first from injustice to the merchants of til
=. country appealed to, and from the defam;
20 ton Of that country's products. -
is After calling attention to the effort
IN modify the customs bill at the request