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Show Coffee & Tea association. Resolutions adopted will bo sent to tho ways' and means committee of the house of representatives. rep-resentatives. Tho organization represents repre-sents 700 members who deal solely in tea and coffee and more than 5.000 other merchants who 6ell these commodities com-modities in connection with others. "The imposition of a tax on coffee and tea would result in an extraordinary extraordi-nary hardship upon the vendors and the consumers of these products," says the association in resolutions. "The fact that the proposed tax will not be the measure of the difference between the present cost and the future fu-ture cost under the proposed amendment amend-ment must not be lost 6lght of. The jobbor and retailer would expect to get an extra profit on the higher value and larger investment and tn consumer consum-er would have to pay for his coffee probably ten cents per pound more than he Is charged today. ! PROTEST AGAINST NEW IMPORT TAX ON TEA ! Chicago, Maroh 11 A protest I again6t the proposed new import tax l on tea and coffee has been made by )i the Chicago branch, of the National |