The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
a GOOD THING FOR AMERICA.
The Tariff War Raging Between Russia and

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-The tariff
war between Germany and Russia will
fill an important place in the October
number of the consular reports issued
by the state department.. Max Judd,
United States consul general at vi
enna, sums up the situation briefly as
follows: IL
During the present trade negotia-
tions between Russin and Germany
Russia asked that she might have, up
to the time that the treaty was to
be concluded. the Same tariff as;
that which France enjoys at the hands
of Germany. The latter country not
acceding to this, Russia ordered that
certain goods coming from Germany be
taxed from August with the highest
tariff.
Russia has three different tariff
grades-the low one, or "most favored
nation tariff" the tariff. usually in
force and the maximum, or highest tar
iff, to be used rs an act of reprisal. /,
Germany retorted. even before the
Russian law went into effect, that if
Russia insisted. on carrying out this
measure she would be obliged to in
crease the duties on certain articles
coming from Russia to the amount of
so per cent above the now prevailing
rates. This will virtually, for the time
being, exclude all Russian grain from
the German market. The total inn
portation OF Germany from Russia in
1891 amounted to SIS, s,701, 900 marks
OF cereals such as wheat, rye, barley
and oats Germany imported from Rus
sia in 1891 300,0OO,OOO marks, equal in
our money to S7a,000,OO France not
being in position to export much this
year, owing to Indifferent crops, and
Austria Hungary never having much of
q surplus to export, it will most likely
result in American grain supplying the
German wants this year.
w. ". Edwards, our oonsul general
at Berlin, interprets the bearing of the
war upon the American market in the
same way. He writes: Hitherto hum
dreds of tons of grain from foreign
fields have made up the DEFICIENCIES OF
German harvests. From no country,
except our own, came so much us from
Russia. Last year Germany bought
l,2g2, ei3 tons of grain. OF this amount
iNusSist 1utlloAlGu ~ " OoS IOuS OL WNedC,
la3, 3sT tons of rye. 1864 tons of oats
and 177,075 tons of barley. The United
States supplied 63o,213 tons of wheat,
1876, 1879 tons of rye and 10,293 tons of
barley. 1t is well known that Ameri-
can cereals. especially our hard ones,
are looked upon favorably by German
millers and bakers. Persons who
should know say that Germany
was better off selling even
her own grain. grown on her
own Silesian and Brandenburg wheat
fields. to England and replacing it by
wheat bought in the United States,
Her own grain, softer and more glut-.
inous than ours, produces q much in
ferior bread than does flour made
from mixture of German and Ameri-
can wheat.
Now that Russia has practically
closed her gates to German imports,
hundreds OF thousands of tons of wheat,
rye oats and barley, formerly supplied
annually by Muscovy, must be bought
elsewhere. To the United States with
her enormous supply of grain Of exceli-
ent qualities-ju those most desired
by the bakers and millers-the German
public must turn.
In the same issue of the "Reports"
will appear the letter from Frank H.
Mason, consul general at Frankfort,
announcing the expected deficit in tho
German hop crop. So that appearances
indicate large market for American
hops as well as cereals.