Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-10

has been most active in the work of
demanding customs concessions for
imports from Germany. 1t is a well
known fact that the imperial family of
Germany is the largest stakeholder in
the North German Lloyd company. Mr..
SchWab has for years managed to
maintain his place as chairman of the
executive board of the New York.
board of trade. He is also a leading
member of the executive committee of
the American Reciprocal Tariff league,
which has headquarters at Chicago.
Several bills have been introduced
in congress on this subject and it was
at the hearings recently on these meas
ures before the committee on ways
and means that Secretary Shaw made
public part of the address made be-
fore the secret meeting of German ex-
porters at Berlin, which he had pre-:
viously shown to President Roosevelt.
The secretary of the treasury, for
reasons of state, did not read the sen
quoted above, but what he did
make public clearly proved a case. of
fraud against, the German merchants.
Germans Are Worst Offenders.
All the records of the customs de-
partment show that the German i'm.
porters are n wors,. offenders against
the tariff regulations of the United
States. They adopt every possible
means of evadlng the payment of
full duties. In order that American
agents may moi get a line on their
exported goods TO this country, they
make an entirely special line for ex-
port, which they sell only through
their New York representatives, duty
paid"
Marshal Field of Chicago had more
trouble in his dealing with German
manufacturers than those of all. other
countries combined. He has been
forced to buy, in many instances, only
from the New York representatives,
who can undersell the market in Ger
many. The Chicago firm took a prom
inent part in detecting the customs
fraud of the St. Gall embroidery manu-
facturers, and the Germans then en-
tered into an agreement not to sell
Marshal Field any more goods.
In a recent speech Representative
McCleary delivered before the repub.
lican club OF New York, he pointed out
the hollowness of the appeal that Is
being made by the Chicago publicity
bureau Of the tariff r%evisionists as to
the value of the German market for
American foodstuffs. Last year, he
showed by statistics, Germany took
only about s4,500,0c0 of American
wheat, flour, and all other breadstuffs,
IN amount equaling the domestic sales
of the United States in a single day.
Fairy Tales for Farmers.
OF meat products, he showed, Ger
many took SIS. 900, 900 of lard, which
she cannot we'll get from any other
source and only $1,S77,oO0 of all other
meat products, less. than ] per cent of
American exports of the same articles
for the year. In the last ten years, he
showed, Germany. had taken only
$108,00O worth of cattle. In the last
sixteen years the United States sold
her ten hogs worth S285, and one
sheep worth $50.
AS a further proof of the mislead.
ing information that the western Ger.
man subsidized tariff. revision head.
quarters was sending out to the far.
mers Of the country he showed from
German government statistics that
germany imported from the entire
world only s3.69O,o0o worth of. beef
of all kinds, $3.50, 900 pork of all
kinds, and $63, 600 OF mutton.