Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — WILL WE RETALIATE? [ARTICLE]

WILL WE RETALIATE?

rhe Embargo on Our Pork Must Be R«mortd or Retaliation Will Follow. Tho President does not propose to allow the German government to ignore the efforts which Congress has taken to relieve the products of American farms and ranchos from the suspicion of impurity, says a Washington special. It has been tho cry of tho German authorities for years that American meat products were unhealthy because no inspection was made before these products were shipped. In order to avoid this charge in future Congress passed the meat inspection bill, and it was supposed that this would ts sufficient to secure the removal of the embargo, but it seems that this idea was erroneous and that the German authorities were disposed to hold out. When this became known Senator Paddock, the author of the meat inspection bill, went to ths President and asked him to proceed at once to enforce the lights of the United States. The President replied that the necessary steps had already been taken, and that tho State department had instructed Minister Phelps to notify th e German authorities that unless the embargo Is removed Immediately the United States will at once impose discriminating duties upon'all German products. It is reported that this has already had the effect of opening the eyes of the German statesmen to the fact that the United States means business, and the result is that the State Department has been notified that In uture American-tagged cattle and hog ß will be admitted into German ports. It is a great many years now since the Germans have had an opportunity to chew American meats. Secretary Blaine said that he knew nothng whatever abont the published report that the United States intended to institute, retaliatory proceedings against Germany, in case that country refuses to admit American pork. No pronunciamento, he said, looking to the exclusion of German imports had been issued. Private Secretary Halford also said he knew nothing about tho President contemplating such retaliatory proceedings. An Associated Press dispatch also says the State Department knows nothing about the matter.