Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-09-18

hindrances are pointed out. In Bel
GUM, for example, complaint is made
that flour OF the same brand often
varies in quality. Every merchant
whom l have addressed says the
consul at Client. tells me that there
is not any certainty of twice receiving
the same quality of flour even under
the same brand. The second lot pur-
chased on the same conditions is always
inferior to the first. Naturally suspi-
cions rise concerning the honesty of
the American shippers. There has
been given me. however," adds the
Consul. Zone explanation. 1t is said
to be the custom of certain Belgian
houses to purchase the old sacks, to fill
them with inferior flour sometimes
native, sometimes foreign and to place
this article ON the market under it's
original mark. To secure i'm
munity from all possible false pre-
fences American merchants should
send -four in such parcels or packages
that the contents cannot possibly be
changed or the wrappers used second
time
Another difficulty arises from the
fact that Americans are not ready to
give the credit usually DESIRED" and
this impeachment to expansion of our
trade is true not only Of Belgium and
of flour. but of all countries with
which we are seeking to deal and of
every product we export. We cannot
expect foreign consumers to conform to
system of short credits any more
readily than to our domestic methods
of putting up goods. In distant coun-
tries, especially in those with poor and
uncertain facilities of communication,
the merchant naturally desires suffi-
cient time in which to realize, in part
at least. on his purchases, and long
credits are readily granted him by
European exporters, who understand
the peculiar conditions of his trade.
This is particularly true of South
reasons why. Notwithstanding the pre-
ference felt for us by most of them, we
have been so backward in securing our
proper share of their trade.
1t is impossible, in the space of a
single article, to set forth all the obsta-
Giles that American manufacturers must
strive to overcome in seeking the mar
kets of the world. The attempt has
been made only to indicate those which
are to be found in their own business
methods. These deficiencies can be
remedied, and must be remedied, be-
fore they undertake to face the opposi
ton which their foreign competitors
will promptly bring to bear. Already
the efforts made to discredit American
food products have been extended to
our manufactured goods. Consul
Kemmler, of Horgen. reports that Swiss
manufacturers of leather are claiming
that the quality of American feathers,
which are being exported into Switzer-
land in considerable quantities, is IN
ferior to that of the Swiss product.
although one of the owners of large
Swiss tannery admitted to him that the
best quality of American hemlock-
tanned leather was equal to the best
Swiss leather of the same grade Con-
sui Fower. of Ningpo, China, in re-
cent advices to the State Department.
calls attention to a cunning attempt
to injure American canned meats in the
Oriental markets. A Shanghai news.
paper, it seems, published an article
from the Medical Press and Circular to
the effect that Every narrowing de-
tails" had been received concerning
the preparation and packing of meat
at Chicago for export"
The Medical Press" pretends to
have seen it stated, ION what appears
to be good authority" that "the pre-
caution enjoined with the object of pre-
venting the use of flesh from animals
suffering from actinomyoosis. that
newly discovered and terrible fungoid
disease. are Systematically set at
naught by INSCRIPTIONS persons. :.
Even more revolving are the details of
the preparation Of extracts of beef
which are offered to the public in
dainty jars, but are often made from
the sweepings and DRAWINGS of the re-
fuse from the canning rooms and cell
lars. The tanks of this extract of filth
are left open, and the bodies of dead
rats, in an advanced state of decompos-
ition. are from time to- time with
drawn before the delicious and nourish-
ing compound is ladled into the dainty
jars aforesaid.
Such absurdly exaggerated statements
would seem to bear their refutation on
their face. but, unfortunately, consum-
ers are quick to take alarm at the least
suspicion of impurity in food products,
and nothing is easier than to arouse
public prejudice on this point. "The
animus of such articles" says Consul
Fowler, "is not hard to divine, for it
is we'll known that the market for
American canned meats, etc., is large
and constantly inscreasing one in the
Orient. and consequently the demand
for the products of Europe is fast
diminishing. The newspapers of the