Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-11
A French Manufacturer Committee For
the Repeal of the Mckinley Eill-Wilson
Hopes That "Our Labors' Will 'Benefit
Both of Them"


outstrip at least in boldness the efforts
Of the Golden club to influence and con-
troll tariff legislation in the United
States.
Members Of congress have received at
the postoffice of the house pamphlet
containing 81 pages Of printed matter.
On the fly leaf is printed in large typo
these words:
France and the United States
French Committee
For the repeal of the Mckinley bill.
Is Document published by the French
Committee,
Paris.
Comite Francois,
6 Rue Dues,
1894.
On page IS CT lis document there is j
printed letter from M. Henry Petit, !
the president of this French committee !
for the repeal Of the Mckinley bill. !
This letter is addressed to the chamber
Of commerce and syndical chambers Of ;
France. In it M. Petit said: !
have the honor to inform You that the
French committee for furthering the abolition
of the Mckinley bill was completed Nov. Is in .
the sitting held at the Grand lloel.
This committee, organized to aid the
Democratic party to abolish the McAin-
ley bill, is intended to be q permanent
organization, and as appears from NJ.
Petits letter is constituted as follows:
President M. Henry Petit manufacturer in
the firm Of Gros, Roman & Co.
Vice president, M. Louis Tabo1rier, manu-
facturer.
Delegate in France and in the United States,
NJ. Leon Chotteau, barris:er, publicst. men,
Der Of the Golden club, London. =!
Treasurers, Messrs. Gros Roman e. Co..
manufacturers.
Assistant treasurer, M. Prosper StaeLlc,
cashier of the firm of Gros, Roman g. Co.
Secretary, NJ. Leon Guilaumet, manufac-
turer.
Here we see arrayed against the Amer
lean policy of protection and reciproci-
ty not alone the wealth and influence
Of the Golden club of London, but also
the organized wealth and power Of the
French bankers and manufacturers,
members of the one society being off,
GERS in the other, the two cooperating
in their efforts to break down the bar
riers which have hitherto protected the
American producer and restricted the
privilege OF these foreigners to sell their
products in our market.
These French manufacturers are per-
sonally represented in Washington,
their president, M. Petit, saying that:
0:r delegate. NJ. Leon Chotteau, will attend
the legislative debates, give US an account Of
the proceedings and endeavor to get the de-
sires and wishes which we have impaired to
him incorporated in the new law.
IN e.; .1o
claim to be and who are good American
citizens think of this proposition? This
information ought to arouse the Ameri-
can people to sense of the danger that
threatens their industrial institutions
and their markets by the adoption of
this proposed Democratic free trade Will
son bill. Who will ever know the ex-
tent to which the wishes and desires OF
these French and English manufacture
ers have been incorporated in this bill,
and at the suggestion or request of their
representative, M. Leon Chotteau, who
is not their delegate only, and who does
not alone represent this French commit
tee, but is also member Of the free
trade Golden club of London, represent
ing that organization as we'll, and who
is in Washington with instructions as
to what the wishes and desires of these
foreign manufacturers are, and to have
the same incorporated in the bill which
is now being considered.
On page % Of that pamphlet is print
ed a Letter From Leon Chotteau to
Hon. William L. Wilson, Chairman OF
the Committee on Ways and Means,
House of Representatives, - dated Paris,
Sept. 4, 1893
In this letter the author recites the
interest these foreign manufacturers
have in the proposed change in our tar
if policy and instructs MIR. Wilson as
to his duty in the premises. In it also
are many facts tending to show the in
furious influences Of the Mckinley bill
upon the export trade to the United
States Of the principal European coun-
tries Says this Frenchman:
In 1890 s44e, COO worth of goods and $751;
100000 in 1892. The result is a decrease of S5S,-
OOO,OOO, lost by the European exporters.
IF the foreign exporter lost $58, OOO,
600 on account Of the Mckinley bill, the
American producer must have gained
that sum in consequence of that meas
ure .
That sum shows the influence exerted
by the Mckinley bill on this side of the
Atlantic. -. -. ,
This is undoubtedly true, but it shows
=. also the influence exerted by the Nc
Kinley bill on this side of the Atlantic,
which was to increase the consumption
of American products to the amount OF
$58,000,0 900:
OF these $5800,OO. IS were wrested from
England, Is from Germany, 915 from France, {
from the Netherlands, l from Switzerland and
from Austria Hungary.
He goes on to say:
Thus Belgium. which gains 1886, 100 in it,
dealings with you in 1892 lover 1890, Is compelled
to buy from You for upward Of SCI 100000.
AS for France. she loses on both sides, since
her sales are S9.O0O,OOO in decrease, while he1
purchases amount to $4,000 900 in excess.
&c this is SO, the gain to the United
States must have been on both sides