Tariffs, Reciprocity and Foreign Trade, Vol. 29: May, 1907 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Tariffs, Reciprocity and Foreign Trade, Vol. 29: May, 1907

Reciprocity is the game Of give and take. When we Show a disposition to do as we would be done by all along the line with these people, it is not improbable that the doors of. Such great markets for food products as Paris, Vienna, Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin will be thrown at least part way open to the American steer and the American hog. Nearly all Europe needs more bread and meat. The middle west has a surplus Of both. Germany is' suffering the greatest meat famine ever known in the empire. Horse flesh, even dog meat, is on sale, as shown by consular reports. Prices for beef and pork are prohibitory. There is no roast in the laboring man's pot. He is hungry and he knows that in America the major portion of the beef carcass is sacrificed at nominal figures while the fastidious citizens of the Great Republic are bidding up the price of loins and ribs on one another! Still he cannot buy because Congress and the Reichstag at present stand between him and the American supply.

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