The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-29
LIVING IS HIGH
 IN FATHERLAND
GERMANY PAYS HIGHEST PRICE FOR MEAT, CEREALS AND
 NECESSITIES.
Manifest Discomfort With the Gov ernments Policy-Municipa
 Markets Wanted.

Berlin, Sept 2S.--Germans are now paying for all kinds of meats, wheat. rye and several other necessaries of life prices higher than are paid any where else in the world. Prices are still rising and the per capita col- sumption of virtually all food stuffs is falling off. The number of horses slaughtered for meat in Berlin during the first six months of the present year reathed 5.924 and exceeded the figures for the corresponding period of 1911 by l,463 The Germans ate 43,762 tons less of beef in the first half of this year than in 1910, and paid $S, S,750,000 more for the smaller quan- tity.
 Dressed swine are bringing more than IS cents pound at the abat- tUirs, and more than half of all the meat consumed in the empire is pork. Retail butchers have had to pay 22i2 cents a pound for dressed beef. and veal Is higher. Veal outlets bring from AS to 53 cents ihe pound Offi- cial statistics for the last week of August showed Mannheim paying $l2.50 more psr ton of wheat than is paid in the United States, and ST 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 vir tually everything they must buy. The police have had to guard the dealers in Liegnitz, G,ogauer, Jauer, Hirsch- berg and half dozen towns more Faced by these conditions the gov ernment has finally admitted. through the official North German Gazette" the existence of almost famine prices for virtually all neceSsaries. and es- pecialy for meat. It still asserts, i however that the period of high prices is only temporary. and that a normal lower level must soon be reached. Holding. as it does, such a point of view, the government be- lieves that no legislative or other remedy is needed, and demands for such relief. which are pouring in from every quarter except from the agra
 rians. 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 # cannot be overlooked or disregarded
 All over the empire the Socialists, who represent good third of the to- tai population, have been holding meetings of protest, which have beon packed to the doors. The Socialist faction of the Reichstag, the strongest in that body, has petitioned convoca- ton of the Reichstag and speedy leg islation to open the borders to the free importation of cattle, meat and other Decessaries. 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
 The Diet of the Kingdom of Bava- ria debated an interpretation looking to a general lowering or abolition of the tariff rates on necessaries of life Herr von Soden minister of the ln- terior, answering the interpolation. declared that such action would have no effect on prices, and furthermore, that it couud not be considered in any event. since it would mark a departure of Germany from the established pro-
 tective policy The municipal author
 ities of Frankfort-on- the Main have addressed a second petition to the government. asking relief from con ditions which make 1t all but impos-
 sible for the lower classes to get enough to eat.