New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-16
ASKED AS AN ACT OF JUSTICE.

We ask the repeal of this prohibition as an act
of naked Justice, too long deferred. 1t has been
excused only by alleging the unhealthfulness OF
American pork Now. this product is perfectly
known not To he unhealthful, and we no longer
hear of any serious belief in any quarter that
il is. Your Academy of Medicine long since de-
cided in its favor Your own Exposition gave l5
the highest award last year. in competition with
all the world After that award. through let
ter which | had the honor TO address to your
predecessor, VI. Spuller. challenged and in-
vitcd a most rigorous examination by your sci-
entilic eApCrts. and il was made, TO their APP
parent satisfaction We forwarded all the in
formation that then asked, and have never
been told that il insufficient. that any more
was desired. Certainly. it seems TO us that there
is no reason to seek for more. This pork Is
cleap and wholesome, and enormously used but
nowhere 50 much by our own people. They
are the largest pork-consumng nation in tho
world. and Yet from the time the disease of trlch'
nosis was first observed, down to this day, it is
believed that there have not been in the United
States so many actual deaths from it altogether
rs there have been in a single year from strokes
of lightning. There is not an authentic case OF
the disease known TO he recorded except when
the pork was eaten raw. If il were n question
of importation among nation Of savages possibly
here might he a valid reason for its exclusion,
hut not in the nation which marches at the head
of the civilization of Europe!
Relations between Governments are best and :
most enduring when they rest upon basis Of
mutual good will and mutual interest OF the NUT
ual good will in the of our countries there u
happily no doubt the world has seen more thana
century's evidence of it. But | would like to
show that the action we now ask is in the mutual
interest of the two countries: that it is greatly
to the benefit of France, and that il is specially
in the interest of the very classes in France for
which n wise Government always cherishes tho
most solicitous care, and to which Republican
Government is especially bound This might seem
10 tend towards questionable discussion of your
domestic affairs Relying, however, upon the
courteous permission Your EXcelency has given
me to pursue this phase OF tn" question: peg
Won 10 believe that even with this permission,
only do so in the firm belief that the fac'S oeiion'
strate yonr interests and ours to be Larmonioua
and not conflicting.
THE COMMERCIAL Loss TO FRAME
In thc last wear before the prohibition OF Amer
lean pork. ussO,) France imported III al oo'-
7op 300 kilos of pork Of which oi'Z4''ooo Nii's
came from the United States AS your import
from all other sources has averaged Tor the pass
tbree wears lust about the same rs III was III iooo
ound numbers four million six hundred
tbous r kilos per year-it is plain that you nave
not made up in duties on this article from othei
countries what you have lost IN duties from the
Tinted States That loss, at the old rate OF duty,
and assuming that there would have been no
natural growth in the business-a most unlikely