Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Most of life's so-c&lled tragedies are merely comedies.

A Hold-Up An Oppressive Trust. Before the Coffee Roasters* Association, in seesion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb, * of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a coffee combine wnich is “the most monstrous Imposition in the history of human commerce." * ** There is very slight exaggeration about this y* statement. It comes very close to being literally true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from “ which country comes the bulk of the coffee used f in the United States, which is backed by the goveminent of Brazil and financed by it, which pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to s/w pay famine prices for coffee when no famine | \ * tr" The worst thing about this is that the consumera of the United States have been compelled to put up the money through which this combine, lA' to further cinch them, has been made effective. J There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon AT rt/ all coffee entering the Unjted States. Those taxes *'» ' were denounced as an imposition upon the people; as taxing the poor man’s breakfast table, and the t I like. The taxes were removed. Immediately * % thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty * k A. ~ coffee up to the full amount of theformer customs taxes in this country. The revenue which for- , merly went into the treasury of the United States * i 9 —Was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the !\ ] same okl price. J But *this was only the commencement. The j "valorization” plan was evolved in Brazil. / Through this plan the government, using the rev- / , . ,N/ # ... enues derived from the export duties for the pur- / Standard statistics of the coffee trade *V . I show a falling off in sales during the last poses, takes all of the surplus crop in .. season of / two years of over two hundred million large yields and holds it off the market, thus | pounds. Authenticated reports from the keeping the supply down to the demands of the j Postum 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 White the°sal°i Spostum invariably have done. - r—r. .■ ■ show marked increase year over year, the The United States consumes more Brazilian cos- j extraordinary demand' for that wellfee than does the rest of the world. We are the / known breakfast beverage during 1911 is *>« cummer, of M»4 Bm« tuy. Mb / from us. Now Brazil w promoting, financing and / Such an awakening naturally disposes ip.intainlng a trust designed, and working effect- J the multitude who suffer from tne ill tha nurnose. to comnel American con-J effects of coffee drinking to be more reS™'to asssfMl'sriSs3 they use. What la the remedy? Seattle Post-Inf the drug-beverage, coffee. —Battle Creek UUigencer—Ntn. 19,1911. Evening News—Dee. 19,1311. POSTUM is a pure food-drinK made of the field grains, with a pleasing flavour not unliKe high grade Java. A Big' Package About \\ lbs. Costs 25 cts. At. Grocers \ - - Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason for using Postum. i It is absolutely free from any harmful substance, such as “caffeine” (the drug ip. coffee), to which so much ; of the nervousness, biliousness and indigestion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee drinKers now use Postum. because they Know from the harm that coffee drinKing causes. Boil it according to directions (that’s easy) and it will become clear to ybu why—- “ There’s a Reason'* Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan. * * - '-r—— f - * 'a . :• :■»_ • .- .. . . » ■ v ,v ; . - ' J* ‘ ... n V. •