New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-15
American Meats are Rest.
Secretary Wilson Of the department

American Meats are Hest.
Secretary Wilson Of the department
OF agriculture is und oubtedly correct
in saying that American meats and
meat products are superior to those
produced in any other country. Their
quality, moreover, will be improved by
the inspection act, the rules for which
have just been promulgated by the
secretary. AS recent revelations have
shown some bad conditions in the
slaughter houses Of England, Germany
and Australia, our own will have a de-
cided advantage over all the other
concerns as soon as the requirements
of the new law are fully met.
AS was to be expected, the packers
have cheerfully promised to comply
with all the terms of the inspection act.
1t is to their interest to assist the in
spectors in their work. The act will
put the national government stamp
of approval on their products, and
this will give them a prestige all over
the world. There has been heavy
falling off recently in the sales of
American meets and meat products
abroad, as compared with the same
time in 1905. Part OF this is due to the
shrinkage in Japan's purchases on ac-
count Of the disbandment of large
part Of her Manchurian armies. Some
Of the decrease, however, has undoub-
teddy been caused by the recent expo
sure of abuses in this country. This
will all be improved under the new
law, and the sales of the American
products abroad will soon pass the
highest records of 1905 or previous
years.
But something is yet needed to pro-
tect the American consumers. The
federal inspection law covers meats for
interstate and foreign commerce.
Those for local consumption are not
touched by that statute. State and
municipal regulations will be needed
to supplement the national act if all
the people are to be guaranteed whole
some meats. The chances are that the
reforms made necessary under the
federal law will operate in favor of the
local consumer as we'll as the purcha-
ser in other states aud in the outside
world, but the state and city lawmak-
ing bodies should move in the matter.
In food products of all sorts the recent
federal statutes, if properly supple
mented by local regulations, give the
American people an important advan-
tage over those of any other country.
There is scarcely a week that some
Of the exchanges which come to the
different newspaper Offices in the coun
try do not contain some reference to
the impoverished condition of the
editor. However hard the lot of an
editor may be or however difficult it
may be for him to force a living from
his surroundings, it is not the part Of
dignifed or thoughtful editor to
place himself in this light before his
readers. They will think no more of
him and should think less. If he is
hard up it is because he is in a field
that is over worked or is not large
enough to support him, or else he is
not giving people the worth of their
money and they know it, No man
fails because of any others fault than
his own, at least rarely so; and the
man who is in the newspaper business
to whimper and cry hard times, and
insufficient support, nine times out of
ten has himself to blame. Those conn-
try editors who are making a success
of their business are capable Of enter
ing most any other business and maxi
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