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E. SALMON. 
readers, but as people in other countries will read them, who 
can only look to your pages for facts, it now becomes my duty 
to insist and to prove that certain of his statements concerning 
our meat inspection system are absolutely incorrect. 
In order that I may not be accused of garbling, permit me 
to quote an entire paragraph. He says : 
While the United States Meat Inspection owes its origin to the German law, it 
can well afford to differ in the conception of what is sound and unsound flesh as long 
as the people of the United States pay for everything. This little meat inspection of 
ours is merely for a show, whereas Germany’s system is for a general purpose ; ours 
is to help along a commercial undertaking of a certain part of our population, theirs 
is for the benefit of the whole nation of 55,000,000 people ; ours is a neat little branch 
of a government department; theirs is a law in itself, and a gigantic system, with a 
thousand branches running through the whole country. 
Here we have a neat example of that German egotism and 
supercilious assertion which has lately been served up to us ad 
nauseum, and which is sufficient excuse for the rather pointed 
replies which I have found it necessary from time to time to offer. 
Surely, a gentle rejoinder could not be expected in such an 
aggravated case. 
How, and in what respect, does the United States Meat In¬ 
spection owe its origin to the German law ? It would be inter¬ 
esting to know when this astounding fact was discovered and 
who was its discoverer. And what are the grounds upon which 
Dr. Schwarzkopf asserts that “This little meat inspection of ours 
is merely for a show, whereas Germany's system is for a general 
purpose ? ” 
The United States law provides that the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture shall cause to be inspected all cattle, sheep and hogs, 
the carcasses or products of which are to be transported and 
sold for human consumption in any other State or Territory, or 
the District of Columbia. It provides for the marking or label¬ 
ing of the carcasses and products of animals “found to be free 
of disease, and wholesome, sound, and fit for human food;” 
while to transport or to deliver for transportation from one State 
into another any carcass or food products of an animal declared 
unsound or diseased is made unlawful and subject to a heavy 
