Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-02
FRENCH TELL VIEWS
Comment on British Stand in Inter
parliamentary Economic Con.
ference.
QUOTE ADVICE OF ASQUITH's


QUOTE ADVICE OF ASQUITHS
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Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
Paris, June mfr. Asouiths ad.
vice to the British de,es,tss "a Tho
r.c.rt ;n,..n..,;. W '.>
'e'e"' nn'erpar''ahen.ary economic
conference to be careful not through
excitement or blindness, or with the
desire to clinch victory 70 t,lc
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10 '""' VIII 10 you more harn
than the enemy was well given, in
the opinion of some French economic
writer's.
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conference tb.ra 81 ,,. ,n't f.p
az veil .s 'I !, r weLe ieais IN French
wb,t ' ,,;a a III /. hn ny circles as to
sntho-;.. s. d a. ,.ne results OF un-
tsr;ans % ~ ;u t.seussloh by Patliamen,
The rss,Its ~ .h La''olal aiiairs, ana
enc. h ouA ~. tie eSonoiaiS CONFER
M NJ, naEg ilot Hliayea such Tears.
Paris, says there IS great At. danger esq tb at
the hasty conceptions of these confer.
ences, put into practice, would turn
against their authors, and that the
only plan of economic reciprocity be.
tween the entente allies thus far de-
veloped is of nature to arouse the
liveliest apprehensions; that it was
even liable to bring about differences
and provoke grave conflicts of inter
est between the allies after the war.
M. Hoschiller declares impossible
OF application between the allies
themselves" the protectionism in four
degrees proposed by the conference.
as follows:
Reciprocal preferential tariffs be-
tween the United Kingdom and its
colonial possessions.
Reciprocal and preferential tariffs.
secondary to the foregoing, between
the British empire ana its allies.
Favorable treatment, but in the
third order OF preference, to neutrals
Prohibitlve tariffs on products of
countries now enemies OF the entente
powers.
Russia's Position Considered
In tho fleet ,1,o. A..
r.c;n-or,, .s.;t P.aee, the preferential
iIn;ted @ H;n .aimls proposed 1or the
sessions nnt Gre.t tI pr u.s. colonial POS
with Russia srd !, .a IN ios1fty
with her nun anu ao IN eventual conflict
M Hno.h;IIa. .ioiis. me latter,
large sduan., Expects VIII seek
t;onsi s;.... s rom tne excep-
ni,csd .haa. IN wilicn events have
ter;.is ; ~ ~: as providers OF raw ma
~ .his INDUSTRIAL war.
s456 mn nm winch bought more than
T In;toJ worm OF goods from the
1oiAIs o.aLes curing, me fiscal year
Cre.t BILL a.u oniy 9sV'UVo,oOO from
erent;si d,,t;t,, not"i1,nStanoing pref
e.entiai outies OF IS is per cent,
s "ou &c leauctant 10 consent to an
osd. elhent tnat would I'M
Stae inpoIt a'ions from the United
co,,u . ~ inc prom OF the mother
emmy ahd pay dearer for products
W. m''S =; tne latter would not perhaps
oe AZ poSitioh TO furnish:
Cahaaa, at the same time, is the
sleat competitor OF Russia in the Brit
isn market, its expectations Of wheat
~. ~, InFlaLno having gene from 81 per
I'm &c Oh inc TOTAL IN 1857 to 81 per cent
OF tne total IN i9ll, while Russia's
percen1age OF British consumption re-
NAMED stationary, at about IS per
cent; DISCRIMINATION against Russia.
~ouia snut 1t out OF the market alto
S 'st Nussias importations of
wneat INTO Germany. were $4,000 |
~ s3"S, as against 5lS,ooo from Canada. |
~: Doradaievsky, pointing out the sig
1 II OF THESE hgures to the Pan
RUSSIAN Agricultural congress, stated |
mat unless the entente allies facili-
tate tne expoortation of Russian prod
ucts the empire would be forced after
tne war INTO an economic arrange
ment with Germany.
frof. Migouline, president of an
economic commission attached to the
RUSSIAN ministry of finance, wrote re-
gently that 1t would be impossible for
Russia to boycott a country like Ger
many, winch was before the war its
pest customer, unless the entente
allies opened their markets more
largely. He points out that Great
Britain bought in foreign markets in
isi3 SS0,00O,O0O rubles in cereals and
z,/4G,o0OOoo rubles in alimentary
products, OF which Russia's part was
only lZs,OoO,OOO rubles, insignificant
IN comparison with Russia's exports
to Germany.
canada Dependent on New York.
1t is pointed out by M. Hoschiler in
ehe case OF canada that its present
financial dependence on New York
WIN eventually make It impossible for
Y 10 treat the United States otherwise
than on the basis OF reciprocal tariff
ana tnat, in any case, the likelihood
81 an economic war such as would be
involved IN the interparliamentary