Show GERMANYS MEAT FAMINE Unless some method of securing cheaper meat is adopt adopted d by the Ocr Ger German man authorities the poorer classes in inthe the tho empire will be obliged to discon discontinue the use uso of meat ns as an article of diet liet For many olny months moat mout prices II throughout Germany German have been ad find and now theY are except or OI the middle and chances Herr a socIalist member of tho seine som figures the other da day In ill support of his contention that Immediate action must be taken Pork ho he said costs casts 40 about pel hundredweight In Chicago 30 O Oin In and 1240 in ill Stuttgart The rhe difference in the prices of other othel me meat t was about the same Herr declared that the dearness of moot meat caused to a large Jarge extent by the rigid inspection la law which excluded much foreign meat sand which through in inspection ehart chartes 6 of an exorbitant char actor acler increased d the tho cost of the moot meat that was admitted A government representative reply lag Ing to Herr contended that the solution of the lay in an Increased 1 production of livestock suit albIe for food fit at home Ho He did not say h how the industry could bo be stimulated or how long it would take the Germans to raise a supply of meat su lc for their needs It was his opinion that poor Or crops in recent years had do de the tho supply of livestock and that the condition Was a 8 transitory one Hoever the German people are more Interested In results just no now than in theories however ably abb presented Common len sense should teach them that the to relieve the famine or that I what it amounts to is to relax the inspection laws and permit th tito Ira ot of meat ment It would not bo be to admit meat unfit for fOl use I Much meet meat that Is 18 ot of charae ter is turned aa away from Germany German And Andas as we ha bave e stated after the charges have hae een paid on the tho meat that l is it t must be sold tt at ratos 80 10 high thab only a favored row Low can eat It ItT T se eb charges s should be cut down or eliminated ft altogether or orIf If at future time H to produce Its own on moat meat It can seize a favorable opportunity for doln doing so 50 |