The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-20
Take Every Opportunity to Abuse the United
States and Its Competition.
The Society Of Husbandry Passes
a Resolution Calling Upon the
Government to Subject All
American Horses to Six Weeks
Quarantine and to Indelibly
Brand Them.

BERLIN, Feb. 10 copyrighted 1898,
by the Associated Press).-By far the
most important event Of the week, po-
litically, was the annual meeting of the
Federation of Husbandry in this city.
The Conservatives the week before at
tempted to make an amicable bargain
With the Federation, whereby they
would wage joint campaign in the
Reichstag and Diet elections; but at the
convention the leaders of the Federation
frankly declared they would not support
any candidates who were not pledged
to support the aims of the Federation.
Herren DIETRICH and Sahn, prominent
members Of the Reichstag, and intimate
friends of Prince Bismarck, who are
known to be inspired from Friedrichs-
ruhe, boldly declared that the fedora
ton must antagoniZe the Government
at the coming elections, unless precise
promises are given to satisfy the Agra
rian demands, especially in the direction
Of paralyZing or excluding 1.-The con-
stantly increasing American COMPETE
ton in all products of the State" which
if it remains unchecked, will utterly ruin
German agriculture, which is equivalent
to running the whole country.
Shortly the Agrarian problem will be
paramount in all Legislatures of the
country. There is no doubt that the
Agrarians are an enormously increasing
factor in politics, and they are doing
their best to hurry the Government into
a tariff war with the United Staes.
In this connection the remarks of the
"Deutsche Tageszeitung. the leading
Agrarian organ, apropos of the news
f11a+ he Of ~ 70 a
Washington had called for the cores
pondence relating to American beef,
fruit, horses and adulterated German
wine, are significant. The paper men
toned SAYS:
I'VE sincerely hope the Americans will
look thoroughly into these German
measures. For one thing, they will ar
rive at the conclusion that Germany has
dealt as leniently as possible with them.
Then we harbor the hope that the inSo-
lence of these Yankees will be so In
creased by the discussion Of these mat
tiers in Congress that Germany will not
be able to do otherwise than follow up
the paper measures by more palpable
ones. For this reason we do hope the
Americans will go it in great style"
The 'Vossische Zeitung' replies to this
effusion, saying: 1T would be hard to
unveil in a more frivolous manner the
designs Of the Federation Of Husbandry
to drive US into a tariff war, the enor-
nous damage of which cannot be fore
SEEN"
Following the example Of the previous
week, numerous members Of the Reich
stag, during the course of the debates,
fiercely abused the United States and
its competition. Herr Roescke declares
the German Government landed the
'lice infected American products more
tenderly than America herself, adding:
This specter of a tariff war with that
country has had no terror to the Ger
mans, who fear God and nothing else
in the world.
A meeting of the Society of Husband
ry, specially called, has passed resolu-
ton calling upon the Government to
subject all American horses to six
weeks quarantine, and to indelibly
brand them. The society also decided
to prepare statistics regarding horse
raising in America.
The Government during the past
week sent experts to all the ports of
entry and revenue stations to assist in
determining whether American fruit is
infected. The officials Of the United
States Embassy here have not yet been
informed whether the cost of the ex-
aminations will fall upon the export
ers.
The press is very indignant at the fact
that German nurserymen have been or
dered by cable to discontinue sending
their products