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Show FRENCH OPPOSED TO TAX ON MINE BORDEAUX. France, July 24. (By the Associated Press) Holding that wine Is one of the necessities of life, several thousand persons, headed by the senators and members of tho chamber of deputies from the dc part ment Of Olronde. paraded the principal princi-pal strectB and avenues of the. city Monday In a demonstration of protest pro-test against the government's placing a luxury tax on wines. Senator Ilu-hon, Ilu-hon, addressing u. multitude which gathered In cjuinconces square after the parade, declared that the fifteen per cent luxury tax on wine was responsible re-sponsible for so many bottles of mineral min-eral water being set on restaurant; tales before foreigners, and "even In front of Frenchmen " Deputy Capua said tho great do-crease do-crease in the export of French wine was due to the tax by foreign countries, coun-tries, which following the example of thi French government, considered all French wines as luxurious and were taxing them accordingly. At the meeting a resolution was passed, as follows: 'Considering that wine Is natural product of the soli and cannot under any clrcumlanees bo classified as an article of luxury, no matter what Its quality we ask the government to remove re-move the fifteen per cent tax agaln.'t wine and placp the tax on real lux uriOS) most of whUh originate In foreign for-eign countries, such as diamonds and Jewels. |