Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
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The Reason offered for Excluding American
Beef From Germany.
Neither Texas Fever Nor Retaliation
Believed to Be the Real Cause
Work Of agricultural BarOns."

1t Is the impression Of come of the off.
cials Of the State Department, and Of others
who should be familiar with the subject,
that the embargo Of United States beef by
the German government can be explained
in very different manrer than by the as
sumption that it is caused by a serious ap-
| prehension Of Texas fever, or that 1t is a
movement in retaliation for the new tariff
act, which discriminates to some extent
agar st German beet sugar. The influences
which have induced the German govern
ment to establish this new embargo are,
unquestionably, the same as those which SO
long and so successfully resisted the re-
moval of the former embargo. The So
called agricultural barons' of the German
empire are very influential persons. They
have powerful representatives i'm the coun-
ellis of the emperor and in the reichstag
The information that the embargo has been
established vas welcome news to them.
They, undoubtedly, have suggested the
Texas fever as the preteXt for the prohibi-
ton of the importation of American beef
Their former campaign against the meat
products Of this country was based upon
pretended sanitary grounds. 1t was due
mainly 20 their efforts that the first en-
largo was established.
The prohibition of American meat products
at that time gave to them the practical con-
troll of the meat market of Germany. The
establishment of this prohibitory order
will enable them to regain the monopoly
which they then enjoyed. 1t was matter
of no consequence to them then that the
immediate result of the exclusion of Ameri-
can meat was to increase the price of beef
to the German consumer. Indeed, the last
embargo was not rescinded until after the
lower and middle classes of Germany had
made a long and, powerful appeal that
American meat products should be again ad-
mitted to their market. in order that meat
might be made cheaper for the poor and the
middle classes. The agricultural barons of
Germany, particularly under the rule of
Bismarck, were very potential In the affairs
of the German empire.
1t was supposed that they would be less
SO under the present emperor. But there
are intimations that he will also extend
this inhibition of importation to pork pro-
ducts, and that an elict to that effect may
soon be expected. If that shall be done the
old feudal Junker element will demonstrate
that 1t has as much influence under the
exclusive rule of the young emperor as it
had in the days when that class induced
Bismarck to give 1t the protection" for
their beef aud pork which could be So cured
by excluding American meats from COM
them now that the result will be an in
crease in the cost OF living to the pour of
Germany than IL lid then
There are rumorS that the same influences
which have been successful in Germany
may prove effective in France. The raa-
tions between the agricultural classes Of
France and Germany are very intimate
Both are inspired by the same motives,
and controlled by the same reasons. When
the French embargo was removed under a
former republican administration, the most
earliest and strenuous opponents of the
United States were the French middle men
and producing classes. There are no such
eA tepsive feudal baronial landed estates in
France as there are in Germany, the agri-
cultural land of the French republic being
divided into smaller holdings, and owned by
small farmers. But, through the influence
of the great meat factors of the cities, the
French agricultural classes were banded to-
gether against the competition of American
meat products. The apprehension Is that
such may be the result now.
The officials of the Agricultural Depart
ment point to the fact that the present in
spection system In this country met with
the approval of the representatives of the
German government to show that the claim
that the Texas fever Is the real cause Of
the present embargo is a pretext.