Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
GERMANY ALARMED
At MEAT FAMINE
Rise in Prices Causes Intense
Suffering Among All but
WeII-t0-Do

BERLIN, Oct S-From all quarters
of. the German empire come lengthy
kilograms describing meetings Of pro-
test caused by the "meat famine" and
the consequent extraordinary rise in
prices, which Is already causing In
tense suffering among all but the we'll
to-do.
The popular Indignation has reached
such heights that persons in no way
inclined to alarmism even go so far as
to predict rioting unless measures are
soon taken. Already the demand to
"pacify the people" is being addressed
to the government, and this by re-
sponsible public bodies, for the pro-
test has long ceased to be confined to
Socialist and trade union meetings and
is being backed by the municipalities
of all the big cities. Everywhere the
remedy proposed is the same: the abol-
ition OF duties. the free admission of
Danish, Swedish and South American
cattle, and the adoption in future OF
only such measures against cattle dis
ease as are really necessary.
The newspapers TEEN with denunci-
atoms of the costly and needless sys-
tenn of quarantine and examination
now practiced, the sole purpose of
which is to give additional protection
to the native agrarians, who even un-
der such favorable conditions cannot
raise enough cattle for the home mar
| ket. The statement issued by Herr
/ Won Schorlemer, the new minister OF
| agriculture, that there is no meat fam
! inc, and that the rise In prices Is
''minimaP' and temporary, has only
served to increase the popular anger;
and derision is added by the ministers
plea that the matter Is the less serious
because there has been a similar rise
in prices of other necessities. The state
ment is all the less convincing because
the government of Wurtemberg has
recognized the seriousness of the 5ttu-
alton by ordering the moderated freight
tariff for cattle, meat and horses to re-
main In force till the end of the year.
Herr Won Schorlemer's statement Is
everywhere exposed as incorrect. Ofh-
cial figures published by the Morgen-
post show that in the last five months
there have been slaughtered In Berlin
about 1000 oxen and calves less than
in 1906, despite a considerable rise in
population. LESS meat supplied and
more money for it," says this journal,
"is the rule" and 1t proceeds to give
figures showing the extraordinary rise
in price which has taken place.
The intensity Of the public anger Is
shown by the violent language used at
SOME meetings, IOll 11clAAApNA6 oAAN
Altoona and surrounding districts no
fewer than eighteen meetings are re-
ported. At Cologne the meat famine
was described as 1.-The inevitable result
of the protectionist and prohibitionist
policy which Germany pursues for the
beneft of the agrarians." The Cassel
meeting demanded "the immediate
abolition Of the cattle duties with a
chicane free system of protection
against cattle disease" AT the meeting
at which the Berlin municipality con-
sidered the question, the chairman of
the Berlin board of aldermen, Herr
Kaempf, held up the English system in
regard to import of cattle and meat
as a model which Germany must adopt.
Four meetings are reported from Sax
ony, at all of which were demanded the
opening of the frontier, and the reduc-
ton or abolition of the duties on cattle.
Munich complains, not only of meat
famine, but also of milk famine, the
cause of which is Of course the same;
and there is a similar milk famine, with
a heavy rise in prices, in Frankfort-on-
Main.