The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-27

that city, IT must be an ideal point for
hog shippers. The market is always
quoted 30 or 50 cents off Kansas City
and st. Joe, and freight rates are low.
If hogs can be purchased in any guam
tity at these prices, a hog shipper can
make mint OF money. Topeka has a
packing house of some local Importance,
yet 1t pays very small price for its
hogs. If the quotations are correct Hogs
sell on the Wichita market at a very
small margin off Kansas City, SO small
that a shipper cannot go on without los
ing money. The reverse is the case in
Topeka
CATTLE RUSH THIS MARKET.
he railroads are preparing for big
cattle business this month. Extra en-
gines and train crews are being sent to
all southern Kansas, Oklahoma and
Texas division points. Business is get
ting heavier each day. Cattle are about
ready for the market all over this sec
ton. Men who have made trips about
the country report that there is a world
Of cattle, which will be ready for the
market in few weeks. At the same
time, it is probable that many hogs which
have been run after the cattle, will De
put On the market.
THE MEAT INSPECTION BILL.
Inc meat inspection Dill agitation mas
been renewed in Germany The German
National Society Of Dealers in American
Meats publishes a statement vigorously
refuting the Agrarian argument It says:
The first attacks were directed against
American canned meats. which, owing
TO the high temperature of boiling, were
proved harmless. The next attacks were
upon American pork and sausages, which
II was claimed were trichinous, but a
prize Of a thousand marks offered for
proof of q single American case of trich-
nous pork is still unclaimed. II has
been officially demonstrated that since
1882 not q single case Of American trich-
nous pork has appeared in Germany"
Herr Bielhaben, the anti-Semite, and
other Agrarian leaders, are arranging u
series Of mass meetings in support of
the bill in its present extreme form. The
meetings viii be held IN all the leading
cities, beginning next Thursday at Ham
burg.
In a report TO the state department
from Frankfort Vice Consul General
Hanuer makes it evident that the Agra
rian element is not without strong oppo-
sition in Germany in its efforts TO pass
the meat inspection bill. The officer Ia-
ports that tha OPPOSITION is manifested
by the manufacturing, commercial and
export circscs IN Germany. He cites the
protests of the national commercial diet;
the movement among the cotton textile
manufacturers against the law, and the
petition Of the Hamburg chamber of
commerce, reciting the threats of repri-
sails from Australia, England and South
America and the probability Of extreme
mercantile injury to the German working
people. This petition also asserts that
the foreign meats never have shown
health-impairing qualities. One OF the
resolutions adopted by the Frankfort
chamber Of commerce declares that the
meat bill would have ominous conse-
quences for German industries and COM
merse as well as causing a great advance
in the cost of the working mans food.
these resolutions affirm that
this legislative act is not in the slight
est manner justified by sanitary consid-
erations, but actually involves the sacri-
fee of the interests of the most import
ant productive classes of our country
for the sole and one-sided benefit of the
Agrarian movement. An equally frank
declaration cited by Mr.. Hanuer is the
resolution adopted by the Association of
Chemical Manufacturers Of Germany,
which is as follows: This association
holds it to be unfair and disloyal that
under the pretense Of taking sanitary
precautions, commercial political meas
Ires are resorted to which encroach on
trade relations guaranteed
by treaties and which must injure our
relations with foreign powers. We ex-
1ect our government to protect all our
national interests, but this can only be
done if Germany herself hon
estly fulfills her treaty obligations and
'efrains from giving cause for just COM
plants"