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Show An Oppressive Trust. . J Before the Coffee Roasters' Association, in 663- i eion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb, -0 of Chicago, chaiyedthat hereJfMn jfxisncea coffee combine whicn is "the most monstrous im- . position in the history of human commerce." - There is very slight exaggeration about this j n statement. It comes very close to being literally jf true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from rv Jf which country comes the bulk of the coffee used J ' in the United States, which is backed by the gov- emment of Brazil and financed ty it, which com-6tf'' . pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, "to jj psy famine prices for coffee when no famine tfi exists." jjs The worst thing about this is that the consum-ers consum-ers of the United States have been compelled to I fj , put up the money through which this combine, to further cinch them, has been made effective. There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon - fJ all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes iK"' were denounced as an imposition upon the people; sAf as taxing the poor man's breakfast table, and the ' f Qy like. The taxes were removed. Immediately fy thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty upon . coffee up to the full amount of the former customs taxes in this country. The revenue which for- "Xr merly went into the treasury of the United States a was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor tyr MaJL man's breakfast coffee continued to cost him the f S . VZ" same old price. V But this was only the commencement. The 1 "valorization" plan was evolved in Brazil. f Through this plan the government, using the rev- yj enues derived from the export duties for the pur- , Standard statistics of the coffee trade i ii it. .,,i : ,, show a falling off in sales during the last poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of tw0 yeanj 0? ovef tWQ hundrd miUiM large yields and holds it off the market, thus pounds. Authenticated reports from the keeping the supply down to the demands of the I Postuni factories in this city show a market and permitting the planters to receive a tremendous increase in the sale of Poslura much higher price than they would otherwise 'Srtum invariably have done. show marked increase year over year, the The United States consumes more Brazilian cof- I " extraordinary demand for that well-fee well-fee than does the rest of the world. We are the I known breakfast beverage during 1911 is . best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little T&JS&tSxZZS? from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and Such an awakening naturally disposes maintaining a trust designed, and working effect- the multitude who suffer from the ill ively for the purpose, to compel American con-y effects of coffee drinking to be more resumes re-sumes to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee kn0wledge l H?!. which eo, , iU j i c i. d,, r often comes as a result of the use of they use. 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