Show coffee the universal drink of americans american S more and more we e are becoming a atlon of coffee drinkers the import orts of coffee havo have almost doubled the past ten years having in ased creased from pounds in to pounds last ar W in the same time far from there being an increase in the lm ports of tea there has been an actual dc decrease decre reate ae from pounds to 75 pound pounds coffee measured by value Is tho the lebond most important of our agricultural imports our supply Is derived alny from brazil and as a result of this trade brazil sends us more aati ituria products than any other country in the world we therefore a splendid market for this export while we me find in that couty no each market for any of our products thus while in the first eight months of 1902 we imported from benzli products to the value at 0 we only sent her by our of both domestic and foreign merchandise articles to the value of nor is this co on true of brazil alone from the whole of south america in the first eight months of this year we received lin ports amounting to while our exports to that continent were only still it Is not fair to argue that brazil Is doing nothing for us as she Is furnishing our people with coffee at an extremely low price and to the average american coffee Is one of the necessities of life the business instinct frequently takes the form of an easy casy conscience |