Arizona republican., 1912-09-30
Meats, Cereals and Many Other Accessories of Life Are Higher There Than Anywhere Else in the World
PRICES COMPARED
 WITH OUR OWN
A German Fear That Con ditions Will Be Made Still Worse by the Eng lish Adoption of a Tariff System

RN SIClI1
 BERLIN, Sept. 29-Germans are wheat, rye and several other neces- saries 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 number of horses slaughtered for meat in Berlin during the first six months of the year reached 5294 and exceeded the figures for the corresponding period of 1911 by 1463 The Ger mans ate 43,762 tons less of beef in the first half of this year than in 1910, and paid $S,75O00 more for the smaller quantity.
 Dressed swine are bringing more than IS cents a pound at the abat- toirs, and more than half of all the meat consumed in the empire is pork Retail butchers have had to pay 22H cents a pound for dressed beef, and veal is higher Veal outlets bring from AS to 53 cents the pound. Of ficial statistics for the last week of August showed Mannheim paying S12.50 more per ton of wheat than is paid in the United States, and $11 more per ton for rye. the chief bread stuff of the people, than is 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
 
 lice have had to guard the dealers in Liegnitz, Glogauer, Jauer, Hirschberg and half a dozen towns more.
 Faced by these conditions, the gov ernment finally has admitted, through the official North German Gazette, the existence of almost famine prices for virtually all necessaries, and espe- cially for meat. It still asserts, how ever, that the period of high prices is only temporary, and that nor nal lower level must soon be reached. Holding, as it does, such d 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 except from the agrarians, are met with the declaration that the economic policy of the nation cannot be altered to meet a situation which will soon pass.
 Meanwhile there is rapidly grow ing discontent with the governments policy which is so manifest that it cannot be overlooked nor disregarded. All over the empire the socialists, who represent good third of the total population, have been holding meetings of protest which have been packed to the doors The socialist faction of the Reichstag, the strong est in that body. has petitioned con- vocation of the Reichstag and speedy legislation to open the borders to the free importation of cattle, meat and other necessaries. Scores of city councils have discussed the situation and have either petitioned the gov ernment for aid or have established municipal markets, made agreements with butchers and taken other means to afford relief.
 The diet of the Kingdom of Ba varia debated an interpolation look ing to a general lowering or abolition of the tariff rates on necessaries of life. Herr von Soden, minister of the interior, answering the interpella tion, declared that such action would have no effect on prices, and fur thermore. that it could not be con- sidered in any event, since 1t would mark a departure of Germany from the established protective policy. The municipal authorities of Frankfort on the Main have addressed second petition to the government, asking re- lief from conditions which make it all but impossible for the lower classes to get enough to eat.
 Thoughtful Germans look upon the present situation in Great Britain with unconcealed anxiety, not on ac- count of the growth of the British navy or the hostility and suspicion displayed so widely in England. but on account of the possibility of the fall of the present ministry and the installation of a conservative govern ment Since the last bye-elections with their steady conservative gains number of prominent publicists are pointing out that a change of gov ernment will probably bring i'll it's train in Great Britain tariff reform a measure which will hit German in dustry far harder than the English patent legislation which forced so many German factories to establish branch establishments in England. That the fall of the liberal govern ment is imminent is prophesied as a certainty.
 Hermann won Rath. a prominent