Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-11-14

GERMANY is NOW
WRESTLING WITH
PRICE OF MEATS


Germans are now paying for all
kinds of meats. wheat. rye and several
other necessaries of life prices higher
than are paid anywhere else In the
world. Prices are still rising and the
per capita consumption OF virtually
all foodstuffs Is falling off. The num-
Der of horses slaughtered for meat III
Berlin during the first six months Of
h present year reached 1924 and ex-
ceeded the figures for the correspond
ing period OF 1911 by 1853. The Ger
mans ate 4S. 762 tons less OF beef In the
first half OF this year tina in 1910. and
paid IS. $50. 900 more FOR the smaller
quantity.
Dressed swine are bringing more
than Is cents q pound at the abattoirs.
and more than half OF all the meat
consumed In the empire is pork. Re-
tail butchers ave already had to pay
22M8 cents a pound for dressed beef.
and veal is higher. Veal outlets bring
from As TO 81 cents a pound. Official
statistics for the last week of August
showed Mannheim paying $3.50 more
q ton for wheat than is paid In the
United States, n $11 more a ton for
rye, the chief breadstuff OF the people,
than ! paid in any other country.
Market days throughout the cities
and towns OF Silesia are being marked
by mad riots OF a people enraged over
the high prices exacted for virtually
everything they must buy. Tne police
have had to guard the dealers In Lieg-
nttz. GlOgauer, Jauer, Hirschberg and
half a dozen other towns.
Faced by these conditions the gov
eminent finally has admitted, through
the official North German Gazette, the
existence of almost famine prices for
virtually all necessaries. and espec-
tally for meat. 1t still asserts, how
ever. that he period OF high prices
Is only temporary and that a normal
lower level must sOon be reached
Holding, as 1t does, such Il point OF
view. the government believes that no
legislative or other remedy Is needed,
and demands for such relief. which
are pouring in from every quarter ex-
cept from the ~agrarians. are met with
the declaration h a the economic poll
icy OF the nation cannot be altered to
meet a situation which will 500 pass.
Meanwhile there is a rapidly growing
discomfort with the governments poll
icy which is so manifest that 1t AN
not be overlooked or disregarded. All
over the empire the socialists. who rep
resent a good third OF the total p
lation. have been holding meetings Of
protest which have been packed to the
doors. The socialist faction of the
R~eichstag, the strongest in that body,
has petitloned convocation of the
Reichstag and speedy Legislation to
open the borders to the free importa-
ton of cattle, meat and other neces-
saries. Scores of city councils have
discussed the situation and have either
petitioned the government for aid or
have established municipal markets,
made agreements with butchers and
taken other means to afford relief.
h diet Of the kingdom of Bavaria
debated al Interpolation looking to a
general lowering or abolition Of the
tariff rates on necessaries Of life. Herr
Won Soden, minister of the interior,
answering the Interpolation. declared
that such action would nave no effect
on prices, n Furthermore, that 1t
could not be considered in any event,
since 1t would mark a departure of
Germany from the established pro-
tective policy. The municipal author
tiles Of Frankfort on the Main have
addressed a second petition to the gov
eminent. asking relief from conditions
which make it all but Impossible for
the lower classes to get enough to
eat.