Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — SUPPRETTED THE FACTS: [ARTICLE]

SUPPRETTED THE FACTS:

The “Journal” Did Not Dare to Print Judgre Baldwin’s Letter: [lndianapolis S-nttnej:i To The Editor—Sir. Last Monday upon the day the article entitled “Again the American hog” appeared in the Journal, and within two hours of my receipt of the paper I sent the editor substantially the following letter. The stenographer had lost the short-hand notes and a few variations may have crept in—nothing substantial or material. Here is a copy; “The American Hog’ Again.” In an editorial with the above title practically addressed to me on the 13th of March you assert that the cause of the exclusion of American pork from Germany is trichinae. 1 deny it and also affirm that the real cause of the exclusion of our American hog meats from Germany, France anc Italy is retaliation for our high protective tariff against their products. Now for the proof. In 1881 Mr. Blaine took up this matter but Garfield’s death interrupted his proceed ing c any farther President Arthur then continued the work, and his secretary of state, Mr. Frei ingrhuysen, appointed a commission of five t o investigate the whole sub ject. In the secretary’s letter to this commission, dated July 29 1883, he used these words; “The consequent legislation has not in most cases express ed the motives of the restrictions. Ihe prohibitory decrees of Austria, Hungary and Germany unqualifiedly‘forbid the importation into these countries of the pork products of the United States.” He then remarks that this government made every effort to investi gate the truths of the unfavorable statements, and that after an exhaustive investiga tion the conviction was reached government that the exported hog products of the United States are in no wise a source of danger to life and health as alleged to be. Mark this date—lßß3. Uns commission consisted ot George B. Loring. C. F. ChandWß. w - Blatchford, F. D. Curtiss and E. D. Salmon. Mr. F. D. Curtiss, one of this commission of 1883, writing to the New York Tribune, March . uses language: ak rPJ 1 1 1. t> ecam o apparent that the ed i cts of the European governments were not based upon any fear of our pork, but such causes were alleged to maintain the embargo and to stin: ulate the raising of swine in their own countries, no further action was taken by the U. b. government looking to any radical or important change of our export laws re gardmg hog products.” Uiis extract, taken from the orthodox, fanatical, high tariff K e^ol? rkTr i b ? ne °f March 14, 1890, ought to be good authority for the Indianapolis Journal.

We affirm that Germany ad mjttea American hog products a i , el' r his gives away your whole contention, for if trichinae were the cause of the exclusion, why admit our pork at any German port, especially a port where German sa dors ai’ e | fed on American hog meats. Why are our hog pro ducts excluded from all the well-known German, Frenoh, Italian or Austrian ports like Hamburg, Bremen. Havre, Leghorn, Genoa and Trieste? ihe truth about the whole business is that trichinae is a sham and deceives nobodv. reason is. as put by Mr. Commissioner Curtiss, “to maintain the embargo.” , D. P. Baldwin Logansport, March 17. Now this letter the Journal sv PP£ e ? se(i ’ showing that it is not the truth that it is concerned with, and that it is not scrupulous as to the means used to secure a false impression upon a great question Iho question is: Do the nations ot Europe, and especially Germany, exclude American pork because of trichinae, or

because of our high tariff, upon the principle of "dog eat dog?” The proof of this latter being the real truth is overwhelm - ing, so much so that no sensible, truth-loving man ever denied it. 1. The fact t hat our pork b e ing diseased is false. 2. This fact has been estab fished by the American government by a commission appointed for that purpose. 3. The fact that this falsehood would not be submitted to by a great government for nearly eleven years if there was not some other reason for the exclusion. None but a pusillanimous government submits to a loss of $50,000,000 per annum upon a demonstrated lie without proper retaliation, an the United States has never retaiated. 4. T,e fact that notwith standing our trichinae, our United States-pork is admitted, according to the Indianapolis Journal, to one of the principal naval yards of Germany. This is a dead give way to the whole business. w hy feed German sailors diseased American pork? And that the Journal thinks so is perfectly evident from the exclusion of the foregoing fetter from its columns n< w for over five days.

D P BALDWIN.

Logansport, March 21,1890.