Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-10
ierman Consumers Realize Of
ficials Object In Debarring
American Commodities
FORMAL PROTESTS ARE MADE
Chambers Of Commerce Thruout Ger
many Claim That the American
Dried Fruits Do Not Contain the Al
legged Injurious Admixture of Sui
huric Acid-scarcity of Meat.

| Washington. Nov 10.-Consumers OF
| food products in Germany are gradu
ally coming to full realization of ths,
purpose of their officials in casting as
| pensions on the healthfulness of Amer
lean fruits. meats and other commodi-
ties. That the real purpose of the
German authorities has been to in
crease domestic prices, rather than the
from deleterious personalities, etc, has
long been appreciated by the United
States. and now the truth has dawned
upon the Germans themselves
Simon w. Hanauer. United States
deputy consul general at Frankfort, in
a report to the state department on
this subject. says:
Protests against the action OF police
authorities In selling or forbidding the
sale of American dried fruits because
they contain an admixture OF sulphurlc
acid are mada in the annual reports of
many chambers OF commerce thruout
Germany. The chambers claim tina,
rot a single case has occurred where
injury resulted from said admixture
Op the imperial sanitary bureau a,
Berlin serving the fruits, which are a
popular article Of food. the chamber o,
commerce of Mannheim. in conjunction
with many other chambers OF COM
merce. addressed the imperial sanitary
bureau at Berlin on the subject of
American Dried Fruits and the po-
lice orders inhihiting their sale. The
chamber refutes the allegation that the
use of sulphuric acid as a preserving
means Is injurious, and petitions the
sanitary bureau to fix the amount or
acid allowable in the preservation of
these fruits. which are necessary ar
ticle OF CONSUMPTION.
THE report Of the Mannheim cham
her Of commerce speaks also of the
scarcity of the meat suppiy and the
and pork. owing to their high price,
forcing the working classes to eat horse
flesh.
1.-The report of the chamber of COM
merce for the state and city of Ham
burg says on the subject OF the restric-
lions on the importations of meats that
the restrictions are agrarian measures.
instituted for the purpose Of forcing
high prices for domestic meat, and are
not justifiable on sanitary grounds. 1t
mentions particularly 'corned beef
against which nothing can be alleged
as being hurtful to consumers. and 1t
quotes the opinions of experts to show
that the small amount OF toracic acid
used for the preserving OF the meat is
not Injurious. and is actually indis-
pensable. The chamber instituted in
quiries among the Hamburg shipown-
ers. who said that since foreign canned
meats had been used on their vessels
the health OF the crews has been much
improved, but after trial 1t was found
that the canned meat rut UP in Ger
many Is inferior to the foreign article.
The report further expresses the hope
that the federal government will soon
realize the fact that by keeping out
cheap foreign meat serious injury IS
done to the working classes of Ger
many. and that such injury must Gre
ate intense feeling and strengthen the
social democratic party"