Show TARIFF ON COFFEE MEANS BREAKFAST I TABLE TAX FOR THE POOR CONSUMER j I Local retail and wholesale dealers in tea and coffee like their fellow merchants In other parts of the United States are re up In arms protesting to the last notch against the bill which is now before the ways wa and means committee of oC United States congress to place pla a tax on tea and coffee The bill which has stirred the tei teJ and coffee men to action will be of great benefit to the men who control the coffee coffe and tea market in this country countr but will work somewhat of oC a hardship on the small Jobber and const ner As the th measure now stands the committee having It in charge chare has recommended that a duty of r 4 cents a pound be placed on coffee coHee The Tho duty dut to be Le placed on tea has not been bee fixed nor will It affect the people so 80 much according to the local merchant Thomas G Griffin Gr local manager manter forthe for forthe forthe the wholesale department t of the rational National Importing Ten Tea company Retail Diana Manager r Cecil and Hewlett Brothers company have hae all expressed themselves the tI measure and have hae declared their intention of fighting it to the best beet of or their ability abil ability abilIty ity The new bill promises to raise rals the price on coffee at Itt least 10 cents a pound before be Core It roaches reaches the consumer pro ITO provides vides Ides that a II duty dut of or 4 cents a pound shall be b 1 levied on every pound of green coffee that comes Ome Into the United States By B th Ui time this coffee reaches the consumer it must pass through six or seven hands each interest will twill demand i K t little more mori return for the additional capital invested According to Mr Griffith It Is safe safo to tosa say sa that coffee which now sells se ls for 25 Ai 2 cents a pound will be advanced to 35 Xi ascents cents a pound and other grades gra of coffee advanced a similar amount In Salt Lake alone there is over pounds of C coffee consumed each month i which h will cost on the average of or 21 91 1 cents a n pound The TIt placing of duty dut on coffee will mean meRn the expenditure Ex of several thousands of oC dollars more each month for coffee without any benefit being de The average family uses lISS about five rhe pounds of coffee a II month said Mr Coil retail manager of the National Importing Tea company compan The Thc placing of n a duty dut of 4 cents Ints a pound on coffee means that an additional expense e of 50 SO cents cente a month will be made The poor man Is the one the duty dut will hurt The rich nan nn does not care carl for this advance but to a poor poorman poorman man it will mean that he must deny him himself himself himself self something The big importers In New Ne York who ho have hae at the present time several million bags of or coffee stored In their warehouses are in favor faor of this bill passing congress The Th average bag of or coffee weighs 10 pounds Add 4 cents a round hound duty to this thin and It will give the tune big fellows a profit I on their spot coffee coHee of SO s O a II bag when In reality no duty his Jus h s been paid Never Nevertheless Nevertheless the duty will be charged to the consumer of this thil coffee tad nd the poor man and small Importer must suffer Hewlett Brothers who ho also deal leal to a aI I large extent In coffee are opposed to the duty passing congress They have hae sent I telegrams to Senators Smoot and Suther Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland land and to tJ Congressman Howell pro protesting protesting protesting testing vigorously against this duty dut being placed on coffee 0 O H II Hewlett said that coffee was one of a 3 poor mans luxuries and should not be taxed The telegrams sent to national representatives by Hewlett Brothers read reid as aa follows We Ve an act ar opposed to tax on t n tea or coffer coffee ocr the poor mans luxury In n times of peace place there thero should be no tax en the breakfast fat table Let congress ss do what the people leole arc are doing economize If lC necessary favor income tax Hewlett Brothers Not Kot only have the tho Utah congressmen and senators been asked to fight the proposed pro proposed proPOsed posed duty dut but national representatives from Crom every state In tho the union are arl receiving ing letters and telegrams daily from their constituents asking that the thc measure mea urt be killed The duty duly dut on nn tea and coffee means that the wholesalers must make larger larler Investments and therefore th will Ill demand a larger profit on their invested money mO l As one retail dealer said Ten cents a t pound poundon on In coffee Is not much but this means SO 30 cents a month additional expense to the average family fa mil and 50 0 cents a month means SOO a year All AH the dealers In coffee and tea In the United States with the exception of the few largest lar cst importers Im Importers porters who wh r have hae the market under their control arc are against tho the tariff on coffee rree and all are working equally hard lIard to tu have haveit ae I it defeated |