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EDI rORIALS. 
those, has already expressed his opinion in suggesting the en¬ 
forcement of milder measures, essentially sanitary—and when 
we consult the writings of European authorities on the subject 
we find similar suggestions. 
Embargo on American Cattle.— We notice an editorial 
in the November issue of the Journal of Comparative Medicine 
in which the recent action of Germany and Denmark in placing 
an embargo upon the importation of American live cattle is 
censured as “uncalled for” and as a retaliatory measure. 
We are glad to see these questions of the day discussed in 
our professional journals, for what we have to say must neces¬ 
sarily be of value in clearing up such controversies. But the 
editor of the journal, in our opinion, is so wide of the mark in his 
arguments, that we feel justified in presenting another view of 
the vexed question. 
Thus The Breeders Gazette , the patrons of which are directly 
concerned in this measure, and a journal which has become ex¬ 
cellently posted on such international disputes, has the following 
to say: 
The singular thing about all this hue and cry over Germany’s “repressive” at¬ 
titude toward American products is the fact that certain ignorant people about the 
capital insist on misinforming the public that it is purely a political move on the part 
of Germany in the line of retaliation for our differential duty against German sugar. 
The fact is that no people on earth are so careful as to what they put down their gul¬ 
lets as the Germans. Their government is paternal enough to enfore the strictest laws 
against the sale of unwholesome and adulterated food products of every kind. We are 
too “democratic’’ on this side to pay any attention to the adulterators of food pro¬ 
ducts who are swindling and poisoning us fairly at their will. Germany for years 
scheduled our pork because it was not inspected for trichinae as all German pork is 
before being allowed on the market. We blustered about in a manner quite in keeping 
with our reputation on the other side and charged “discrimination,” “protection to 
German producers ” and all such stuff, but had not the sense to institute an inspection 
of our own so that we could guarantee the wholesomeness of our products to a people 
who eat pork half raw. Finally, after The Gazette had preached such inspection for 
years, it was instituted and immediately the German barriers against our pork fell. 
The Fatherland has just scheduled our cattle, and again the cry goes up of retaliation 
against us. The weaklings who utter this cry do not seem to know that if Germany 
had wanted to retaliate she would have attacked our pork and not our beef. She can 
injure us by shutting out our pork, whereas our exports of cattle and beef are com- 
