US. Tariff Experts Unwelcome in Europe: Question of Reciprocity: Aspects War Debts Problems From Oun Owx Comnesrontest San Francisco, Sept. 20.
The attitude of France in raising liber tariff duties and insisting upon reciprocity with the United States not only is regarded in this country a natural evolution, but as 2 symptom of what may be expected other countries when they recover their strength. "Mr. David Lawrense, 8 leading Washington writer, says that, for several weeks, Government aports have been showing tha some $15 million. This increase alone is larger than the total present gold production of the state, and yet California continues to acjeount for approximately 80 per cent. of the gold. output of the United States.
The State Mineralogist stated that the salient features of 1926 were:—(a) the considerable increase in value of both the petroleum and natural gas yields, and material we sere ai He vadnite that the toda, salt, and pottery clay; ports have been showing that Tavancea in stone, tine, cement
United States has held the whip decreases "in gold, copper, silver, hand for several years, because of trick, tanite, and magnesite; (c) liber credit position—"and still wields Tower yield in petroleum, though fan increase in value of over #14 tremendous influence on the Course. of trade"—but he thinks 000,000; (4) drop in gold yield with those who have been advocate from $13 to $11 million.
When one remembers that Call. Ing @ conciliatory attitude towards Europe that no progress will fornia is. pre-eminently an agricultural state, remarkable to see made by a series of reprisals, how her mineralogical, development and that "an era of good. feeling will have to be inaugurated in order goes ahead. As an li-producing to settle amicably the many disputes state, she is a rival of any in this country, but as time goes on it will on trade questions that are develop-be found that her fertile acres are ing, worth many times over to her what Your telegrams doubles will have shown that the United States has her mineral yield may be. In no part of the world is science dietat~ Sneurred the resentment of foreign ing agricultural policies as in Calicountries by sending tariff experts fornia. Her farmers are farmers aprond to investigate costs of pro-Ino longer in the old sense of the Guction, Since the inevitable result word. They' are scientific growers, fof such investigation would be. to using electricity wherever they can oise American tariff, European and carrying outmost. of their countries refuse to submit to the work with up-to-date machinery of inquisition. Argentina has followed every imaginable kind. the lend of Europe by stating that the Lavi commission experts would
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