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Show A. HlcSU3 An Oppressive Trust. . (jj Before the Coffee Roasters' Association, in ses- mC Bion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb, -- " of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a coffee combine which is "the most monstrous im- , . position in the history of human commerce." - There is very slight exaggeration about this oJl statement. It comes very close to being literally -Jfr true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from Swl which country comes the bulk of the coffee used ' ' ' 1 in the United States, which is backed by the gov- , ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com- . pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, "to J-pay J-pay famine prices for coffee when no famine exists." iij The worst thing about this is that the consum- ers of the United States have been compelled to put up the money through which this combine, vA to further cinch them, has been made effective. , There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon JC fJ all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes lf " were denounced as an imposition upon the people; jr as taxing the poor man's breakfast table, and the i like. The taxes were removed. Immediately fr thereafter Brazil "imposed an export chjty uponpr coffee up to the full amount of "the former customs h Jy taxes in this country. The revenue which for- a' merly went into the treasury of the United States . j , was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor tyr fjjt man's breakfast coffee continued to cost him the t r" eame old price. r But this was only the commencement. The I "valorization" plan was evolved in Brazil. I f Through this plan the government, using the rev- - enues derived from the export duties for the pur- . , Standard statistics of the coffee trade poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of feao! fve? $?b2& large yields and hold3 li, off the market, thus pounds. Authenticated reports from the keeping the supply down to the demands of the I Postura factories in this city show a market and permitting the planters to receive a tremendous increase in the sale of Postum much higher price than they would otherwise '"wMeThlof Postum invariably have done. I 6how marked increase. year overyear, the The United States consumes more Eraziliah cof- J extraordinary demand for that 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 oTrfiL toS from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and I Such an awakening naturally disposes maintaining a trust designed, and working effect- J the multitude who suffer from the ill ively for the purpose, to compel American con-V effects of coffee drinking to be more re sumes to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee oeptive to knowledge of harm which bo , F' . j , ? ,4i. r t r- often comes as a result of the use of they use. What is the remedy?-Seattle Post-In. the drugbeVerage, coffee.-BattU Creek telligencerNov. 19, 1911. Evening Newt -Dec, 19, 1911. ' 1 iil is a pure food-drinK made of the field g'rains, with a pleasing' flavour not unliKe hig'h g'rade Java. - A Big' Paeiiag'e About 1 lbs. Costs 25 cts. ; At Grocers Economy to one's purse is not the main reason for using' Postum. It is absolutely free from, any harmful substance, such as "caffeine" (the drug' in coffee), to which so much of the nervousness, biliousness and indig'es-tion indig'es-tion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee drinKers now use Postum because they Know from experience the harm that coffee drinKing' causes. Boil it according' to directions (that's easy) and it will become clear tq you why iihere s a Reason Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle CreeK, Michigan. |