Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-16

far seeing, He knows more about the
country perhaps than any man In IT,
and with all his ldiosyncrasles he Is
packed with common sense. He knows
that Germany must have cheap food
II low wages are to prevail I'm the fac
tories and the Germans thereby be
able TO compete with the rest of the
world In commerce and trade.
The kaiser recently said he would not
sanction bread usury." He does much
to hold the agrarans back, and at the
game time helps them whenever H.
Fan He would like to see Germany
raise It's own wheat and rye for fear q
war may shut of outside supplies but
apparently realizes the impossibllty
Today the German army subsisls
largely on American food Its horses
eat American corn and when the tIO0ps
were sent to China not long ago they
were supplied with American canned
meats, much TO the disgust Of the
agrarans, This matter was brought
up In the reichstag and It was shown
that the American canned meats were
the cheapest and best
Indeed, the kaiser wen knows that
American foods are good He llkcs
American sausarcs and American hams
and uses them In the na'ace. WIN
Admiral Evans was at Kie he had the
emperor 70 breakfast and AZ the time
tickled his palate with Smlthfed hem.
The kaiser demanded TO know where IT
came from. aud since then am told he
has ordered n special shipment TO Ger
many, He has sampled the canned
meats furnished the army. and he
knows as well as any one that our
meats are good.
FIGHTING THE AMERICAN HOG.
Just now the agrarlans are making
big tight on the American hog, This Is
both open and secret The meat inspec.
tors sympathi2e with them, and our
pork Is thrown out on all sort of pre-
texts.
The authorities Of the various PROV
inces have been practically instructed
TO discriminate against Americans, to
refuse our consuls statistical infOrma-
ton as to the infractlons Of the laws
upon provisions and food product and
withhold from them the finding Of
trichinae or other deleterious sub
stances in domestic meats, and also the
condition Of human and animal dis
eases In their respective districts, Such
orders are secret ones but that which
have quoted was stolen by a clerk IN
one OF the provincial offices and read
In a political speech in the reichstag.
A leading German paper in comment
Ing upon II said:
What the order really means Is that
II any disease Is found in any meat
sold In Germany Il must come from the
outside, for We want the world to be-
lieve we have no disease, animal or hui
man, and that trIchlnae can only come
from American meats"
Nevertheless the Germans are now
eating about 100000 pounds of our
meet a month and they would take
millions more II the agrarians would let
II In The chamber Of commerce Of
Hamburg recently criticised the meat
inspection law saying that American
corned beef had been used for years ny
the imperial navy and the general pub
lie. and that there is no reason for OBJ
jecting TO t.. 1t stated that a prize of
2,OOO marks was offered two years ago
for case Of trichnae caused by
American meat, and that this had rot
vet been clo med Ii smoke well OF our
lard and said that al! suspicious against
Il We're based upon prejudice or gross
ignorance.
GERMANS AS SAUSAGE EATERS.
had a talk with the German agent
Of our biggest packing house trust in
one Of the cities Of the Rhine as to m,
importation of American meats Said
he:
The people here want American food
stuffs, but the agrarians crowd them
out Their talk about tariff has rails.
ed the prices OF meat, and also their
ed the prices Of meat, and succeeded In
excluding the American sausage.
We Germans are sausage eaters.
We want our meat chewed There is no
waste in sausage, and cheap sausage
means much to the poor Before Amer
lean sausages We're excluded you could
buy a good article for l5is cents a
pound The same thing now sells for
81 cents a pound and other kinds OF
meat are proportionately high We used
10 have great trade in American
livers, but the agrarian inspectors are
keeping them out, and they exclude all
American fresh meats by DELAYING the