Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-07
HUNGER A MYTH
SAYS Secretary
DECLARES LOWER CLASSES ARE
NOT UNDERFED.
BUT GERMANS WANT MEAT
Laborcrs Are Crying 10 Have the Beef
Barriers Lifted BY Having From
tiers Open 20 Foreign Cattle.

Berlin, June 6.--For three days the
Relchstag debated in regard to the
Interpolation OF the Socialist party,
which asked what steps the chancei-
lor intended to take in view OF the al
legged scarcity OF meat In the empire.
The subject has been thoroughly
threshed out in the newspapers and
but few new arguments have been
brought forward.
Now, as heretofore, the Socialist
and Democratic parties contend that
the mass of the people can not obtain
the meat necessary for their nourish-
ment, and assert that the situation
will be improved only II the govern
ment will open the frontiers to for
eign cattle, Now, as heretofore, the
government and the parties on the
right declare that there is no need for
alarm, and that the increased price
Of meat is due not to lacal causes,
but to reasons which prevail even In
countries which pursue free trade
policy. The government also contends
that its duty is TO watch over the
health Of the population, and that It
would not be fulfilling this duty II
1t permitted live or slaughtered ami
mails to be imported without thorough
veterinary control
The secretary OF state for the inter
lor, DIR. Delbruck, delivered long
speech, in which he defended the gov
| ernment standpoint. In the first place
he said, the imperial health office has
issued n memorandum IN which II Ia
proved that the lower classes are not
underfed, for there is sufficient meat
in the country to furnish the average
quantity per head required by tho pop
ulation. He also pointed out the un-
wisdom OF relying on other countries
for meat, and stated that the export
Of cattle and meat by the United
States, for example, which in 1900
was 1915 of the total exports OF that
country, had sunk by 1909 to SO per
cent
When reference to the general agra
rian policy Of the German Empire,
Dr. Delbruck stated that the price Of
rye has been in any year since the in
PRODUCTION OF protective tariffs, and
that the case OF wheat was similar
He declared that the price of meat
had risen mainly under the influence
Of the improvement In the manner Of
living, and pointed out that protec-
ton was accorded not only to agricul-
| ture, but also to industry.
Was 1t right, he added, to deduce
! from the fact that during the last
thirty years the cost of production
had increased that therefore the eco
nomic policy Of the empire was
wrong?
Herr Delbruck contended that re-
suits were the only means Of proving
whether policy was right or wrong;
and continued: Can 1t be said that a
country has pursued a wrong econom-
ic policy when It's national wealth has
increased during the last ten years by
| $4,000, 100000 when its population
has increased in the same period by
about $4,000 annually and when its
| population, Notwithstanding that
enormous growth, has found remuner
ative work to such a degree that emf %
grafton has almost ceased? 1t is also
untrue that only certain classes have
benefited by this state of affairs and
| | would remind you that this tariff
and economic policy have enabled us
to spend Sl00,000,000 Up to the year
| 1907 In improving the social and poll
teal conditions of our working clas-
| % A, IL
rectly out of the pocket OF the en-
| pire."
The secretary Of state also cited the
well-known social economist, Richard
Calwer who has calculated that In
the period from 1896 to 1910 wages
have increased by 81 1-2 per cent. He
also pointed out that, although the
workman might now pay moro for
bread, meat, etc, It was not only the
price Of these articles that was higher,
but that their quality was consider
ably enhanced Herr Delbruok also
quoted Herr Adolf Wagner, who has
said: 'No other IIople has advanced
during the nineteenth century as we
Germans have, and no other people
now permits itself more luxurles OF
all kinds in all classes from the
highest to the lowest, from the work
man to the capitalist"
ut Is thus futile concluded Dr.
Delbruck, "to advance general theo-
retic considerations against an eco
nomic policy that has so greatly adj
vanced and benefited the German ma
ton" He added that It would al
ways be the endeavor Of the govern
mont to safeguard the united inter-
ests Of the people az a whole.
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