48 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



from the hands of King Theodore. That 

 ambassador was Mr. Grant and he saved 

 his company from execution by Theodore 

 by his Scotch wit. He told Theodore that 

 Queen Victoria was a widow and if he would 

 send a message that Mr. Grant would write 

 by a courier he thought he could arrange 

 a marriage. Of course Mr. Grant sent a 

 secret code and apprised the British Gov- 

 ernment of their predicament, and the first 

 thing King Theodore knew elephants with 

 breech-loading Armstrong cannon lashed 

 on their back were battering down the walls 

 of Magdala. One American ship, the Bos- 

 ton, lay alongside us for seven months. She 

 had 1000 tons of baled hay. She was not 

 required to unload one bale and when she 

 returned to Bombay with her cargo it was 

 in the rainy monsoons, she was given her 

 cargo of hay because the hatches could not 

 be opened. The captain took his cargo to 

 the Maritus and sold it for $30 per ton. The 

 Boston earned $65,000 for her eight month's 

 work. 



About 30 years ago Germany sent 40 wise 

 men all over the world studying trade con- 

 ditions. They visited our state and all of 

 America. They saw our mistakes. On their 

 return to Germany, Minister of the Interior 

 Delbenck had put 55 marks per ton import 

 duty on wheat and the same ratio on meats 

 and other farm products. That increased 

 Germany's yield of wheat from 23 to 33 



