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a “commercial undertaking” than is the meat inspection of 
Germany : and if the German inspection “ is for the benefit of 
a whole nation of 55,000,000 people,” ours is no less a benefit to 
a whole nation of 70,000,000 people. As to the point of the 
statement that our inspection “ is a neat little branch of a gov¬ 
ernment department,” while “theirs is a law in itself, and a 
gigantic system, with a thousand branches running through the 
whole country,” I opine that nothing less than the intricate and 
mysterious meanderings of the German mind will ever grasp it. 
Is not the German inspection a branch of a government depart¬ 
ment, and is not an act of Congress a law in itself? Have we 
not a gigantic inspection system running through the whole 
country, a much larger country than Germany, and a country 
containing at the same time a much greater population and a 
vastly larger number of animals ? We inspected in the United 
States during the year ending June 30, 1894, not counting 
microscopical examinations, 12,944,000 head of meat-producing 
animals at the time of slaughter. How many were inspected 
under the German national inspection in the same manner and 
during the same time ? 
Dr. Schwarzkopf goes on to say: “ It is all very well to say 
we condemn everything that is not sound and ship to Germany 
only strictly healthy meat, when the carcasses condemned at 
home are turned loose at our local markets and are considered 
good enough lor our own people. I never have seen so much 
poor meat in my life than in the Chicago butcher shops, and I 
hope to see the day when the United States inspection can be 
enforced all over the country to rectify these evils.” 
Has there ever been a worse misrepresentation of the Federal 
meat inspection or a more deliberate attempt to depreciate its 
value in the eyes of the world than is contained in the above 
paragraph ? If so, I hope some one will point out the author in 
order that he may receive full credit for his ability to pervert 
the facts. 
It is not true that the carcasses condemned at home are 
turned loose at our local markets and are considered good 
