This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...You can describe the situation by saying the hog has rooted out the foundation of the throne in so far as it rested upon agriculture. The emperor perceives this and he tries to exclude the porkers before they do more mischief and leave things where the American steer, in the form of cheap beef, will come tilting into the arena and knock over the whole structure. The hog question is the only serious thing which our rulers see and they are wide-awake and sharp of sight. The American hog must not be allowed to get her living under the throne and leave her hind legs in America to fatten her young and thus give wealth to your farmers. That is the situation as Wilhelm beholds it. He is trying to kill the American hog. He can"t do it. His associates are trying to keep the American steer at a distance. The silver conference talk is a part of the scheme to aid the German rulers in keeping out the competition of American pork and beef. They are bound to protect themselves in some way from that competition. They do not want too much trouble with the United States over the hog and steer and so they raise this diversion over silver, knowing well that there are thousands of ill-informed gudgeons in America who will bite at the bait, thrown out in that way, to catch suckers. The silver men, in the hopes of gaining the Germans to their side of the Quixotic scheme of turning fifty-cent pieces into dollars, will pat the people of the fatherland on the back and call them good fellows and do nothing for the American hog or his producer,--the American farmer. Oh, it is a nice scheme, and you should thoroughly admire the intelligence and shrewdness of our rulers in the perplexing dilemma caused by the free sale of American food products in our markets. There is nothing Quixotic ...