Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1905 — GERMAN DISCRIMINATION [ARTICLE]

GERMAN DISCRIMINATION

Subject of a Protest from the New York Produce Exchange to the State Department. New York, May s.—President Herbert, of the New York Produce Exchange, has forwarded to the state department in Washington a protest against the “apparent deliberate intention of the German government to discriminate against American trade” under the new German tariff, and expressing the hope that a treaty will be negotiated with “Germany which will place United States products on an equal basis with those of competing countries. The effect of this new German tariff, which goes into operation on March I, 190'1. is, according to the claims made by the stain and flour exporters here, to impose a discriminative duty on exports from this country, in favor of European countries, particularly Russia. What Germany really has done Is to negotiate reciprocity treaties with these other governments giving her better terms than we gave her, for the same products.