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Show Says New American Tariff H Is Not Injury to France H PARIS. Jan. 17. Frank S. Mason, tho American consul-general In Paris. In a speech before the American Chamber of Commcrco tonight, dealing with Franco-American Franco-American commercial relations, submitted submit-ted a series of figures to refute the Impression Im-pression that the now American tarirf is injuring France. Increases in trade In tho various consular con-sular districts, ho said, averaged from 10 to 70 per cent. Although tho largest increases consisted of antiquities, works of art and hides, which are placed on the American free list, they Include textiles, tex-tiles, gloves, lnccs. millinery, perfumery. Jewelry, horses, food products and nuto-moblles. nuto-moblles. , , . . , The consul-general further pointed put that these figures entirely disregarded clothes and luxuries purchased in trance by travelers, which amounted to millions of dollars annually. He expressed tho hope that in pending negotiations Franco should remember. first, that the American tariff was design-cd design-cd primarily for revenue und was no-aimed no-aimed at any foreign country; second, that while SO per cent of American ex-ports ex-ports to France were composed of cot-ton, cot-ton, copper and other articles of first nccessltv for French manufacture, the same percentage of French imports in the United States was composed of manufactured articles. In which labor IM was the principal element; third, that the American consumer pays the tarifi: fourth, that America alone of all the great commercial countries, with a few exceptions covered by reciprocity ar-rangements. ar-rangements. heretofore nas paid France the maximum duty; fifth, that Lrcnch exports, Instead of suffering under the American rates, havo increased to un-precedented un-precedented figures. The speaker concluded by saying' "It would be a deplorable calamity If, through a misunderstanding. Franco- IH American commercial relations should IH drift Into rupture." |