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Show FRANCE APPALLED BY HIGH COST OF LIVING Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. July 22 France is stirred by the appalling advance In tho price of meat and the demand for legislation which will put an end to It Is growing Insistent. More than one hundred deputies and senators attended a mooting called recently re-cently by syndicates Interested In the meat trade. Resolutions wore passed condemning con-demning the new customs regulations, demanding a return to the law of 1S92, and urging the encouragement of importation impor-tation from the colonies free of dutv. The customs commission of the chamber cham-ber has now decided to listen to a delegation dele-gation from the butchers syndicates, and fucstlons arc also promised In the senate Immediately. During tho last decade the price of meat has been nearly doubled. Last year ?20,000,000 more than in 1!I02 was paid for tho same nuntbcpof cattle at tho Wlllelle market alone. In 1 f)0;t the duty nf foreign for-eign cattle was Introcuced. Resides breeders are exporting moro and more to Germany and Switzerland, Tt is stated that the lower classes at present do not know how to mako ends meet What, with higher rents and dearer food, the workmen tiro really far worse off than they were before thev went in for strikes and won steady rise's In their wages, It Is not impossible that the French government will be before long faced with the same problem its Is that of the Unltcd States that of revising the tariff downward particularly on tho necessities of life. It Is urged that for the great mass of the people the high tariff his proven a burden almost unbearable. |