New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-09
SOMETHING OF INTEREST
FOR CIGAR SMOKERS.
FACTS AND FIGURES SHOWING SOME OF
THE RESULTS TO FOLLOW THE ADOP.
TION OF THE PROPOSED NEW
TARIFF on LEAF TOBACCO
AND CIGARS.


TO THE MEMBERS or THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,. WASHINGTON. d. G.
Won are asked to make the duty cigar wrapper leaf
and on every package containing any proportion OF
| wrapper leaf. 81 per pound This provision WILL II
honcsv enforced make the duty all leaf tobacco In
nored s2 per pound for every package contains some
leaf suitable for wrappers Tho duty Is now from 80 cents
N n cents per pound rate collected In 1888
was 10 cents price OF American lear tobacco
FOR twenty years past according 10 the published STATISTICS
Of the Department Agriculture. has been cents per
round so YOU already protection OF over 500 per
cont s,Il the farmer asking for In the year
1883 the 75.cen established row - asked
for IL is expected that by this exorbtant rate Of duty
the American smoker be compelled TO smoke the Amer
lean tobacco in the form OF cigars. but In this you VIII
not succeed he Will the pipe cigarette In prefer
cncc to smoking deterioratcd cigar he has learned to
know better article and become accustomed to IT, Tho
cigar Is luxury not n necessity You might a. wen
expc, 10 force the American who has acquired tnst" 10.
iportod wines and champagnc substitute the
wines produced this country by prohibiting the lmpor
taton OF the foreign article good cigar cannot be pro-
duccd without an admiNture Of foreign tobacco which has
become an indispensable necessity to the manufacturer
But by Increasing exobitanty the duty the foreign
tobacco Won propose compel the manufacturers
only American tobacco In that cigar what VIII he tho
RESULT will reduce the consumption and inurc the
the end
The principle Of protection IL to protect the home in
dustry apan the Undertaking OF tho foreign article Our
protected because the iron and
England BE- manufactured cheaper than In
the n the time should arrive for Instance.
that steel rails could not manufactured England
less saw than $40 a ton but could be manufactured in
America say s3S ton then the protection Of steel
interests would become absurd Protection like every
thing else I'm this mundane world limit and llTnt
OF tariff rate found In making the duty rate tho
difference the cheaper production abroad aud the
dearcr production at hcmc and possibly small margin
above for the Nacations Of business
cOnJuhctures.
i,fa win ftf ppd
listing just the reverse 1t il the by far cheaper
domestic article which seeks unheari-of and totally
ustnable protection against much expensive foreign
article. The best domestic wrapper leaf does command
I'm the eds - per pound but for arguments sake
will fN It wrapper commands
in Amsterdam at the cspcns average Of 81
pound times the price Of the domestic wrapper II
tho manufacture willing paw for the foreign wrapper
four the price Of The domestic one plus three times
the full value the domestic duty seven times
~ much for the Stna,ra than for the domestic leaf
there be ad, IN the foreign leaf which
the domestic leaf under circ' msanc offer
the Manufacture. And In truth there b.
ton against The natural santgc which soil and
viii give a article. You prohibit the
Importation OF Sumatra ruin all our cigar factories
you throw Of employment talf million Working
people hut you hv any protection the
hacco grover the rpleeuent OF the domestic foF the
foreign leaf.
The cheapest grades cigars Manufactured ~
purely American cigar Leaf tobacco but mct Of the Amc
can tMoh"Tr want nNf or fn cent s@' aE'
cred with wrapper, produced the Island q sums,rn
ton-cent cigars made wholly n, cuban oaf to-
hacco but Of the Ave and ten cent cigars are
m'xurc % foreign and domestic tobacco considerable
proportion nlcr nvecent cigar. 8. imported
Cuba Suma,ra leaf tobacco has become The standard
for cigar wrapper leaf all the world.
Cuban ner leaf tobacco f. the standard cigar nler By
which judged and classified hat leaf which
the product Of Suma'ra in appearance and
quality wrapper comes next In value IN the market
that which nearest Havana filler IN value
when that grade Is considered.
Tho territory where tobacco bc r,s"d tho rncd
States {, with Tho extent o. tho from
the Atlantic Paeinr cigar Leaf tobacco Is only
in the Northern florida and VIII be raised in
those and wherever the producer get
better return than for other farm products The
price Pr pound the particular Kind
seed used. the soil which Il il p"n"d and the
humidity @ the atmo,phore during the growing and curing
sea.on years is better In STATE. years
in another
In cigar leaf growing States several kinds q ~ -
are planted Tho Hayan, cuban seed produce snail
leaf which brings higher price te Oh t'e O, seed
produce, the larger. heavier leaf which is -olG
for less per pound The rcsul, IN doll1rs
per acre I'm most STATE. favor q tho cuban
seed The production VIII be. rule. equal to the de-
uand and when protect tobacco bv duty cGun %
the whole u production which In STATE except In
Florida (. even claimed % b. than I. cents pr
hound Won have done all possibly do 'or the
farmer You can no moro lcip him . get better price
hv uniting higher duty foreign than could
hv Increasing the duty coffee You misht by
lrcc Increase in duty temporarily advance IN prlre
{, the American smoker willing 70 return 70 The us"
- American laf but thc tenp,ar, scsrarf arthcialf
caused iv such moan. viii 4 mfft" oyrfproc &c.
an and reduce thereby prirc former
lower level II could materially Increase The con
,rpon q all farm rrdu 8 prrman"ntlv Won might
do some benefit but tc quantity o tHe whole cigar leaf
econ and tho result IN f. insignificant when CON.
,arcd with tho staple arcc' cotton md such
h, ,obaccos used for smoking and chewing tobacco ~
80. ,o.od IN the Southern State and for which no sub
Unit has vet been discovered part Of the world.
tina, even n the quantity 81 cigar leaf produced were
auhlcd but very small would be added % tho
,,1 farm product Of the United ,.'tc-. Take the six
states where about all the cirar leaf "a 60 Is grown
p.nn.,lyania Connecticut. ohio. New York. MaS-arhu
,ett, and Wisconsin. Ia tho year 1855 there were In
,h,se 615l37O acres used Tor growing corn. and only
- ,- c. FOR tobacco producing - oit 800 rounds, u
| witch 100000 pound, exported. leaving for homo
! CONSUMPTION s77ii.5o0 pounds. The imports were u"
i.,g,.t ever known. W.: 1sGOo1i@ pounds n which
r. AGAIN exported 1891. leaving l6-J3tM pounds
10 , n.urution le-, than onc.siNh all the tobacco
.od In the E,nufacture II cigars 40" you pfohibi'
the IMPORTATION of foreign tobacco entirely ana compel The
American people take the American tobace's alone" YOU
,ch, ada H. 900 acres to the land, u-cd for growing
ohacco Is worth while N tIy the experiment "hen
~, dating so YOU arouse the indignation u all the cigar
nokcrs I'm tho United states ard di'""urae" and crppo
| an ipdustfy Ia which are employed nor" uah ''VuOI
Soplel .,.. 49, ,,.
NAV no again educated Of their product clear
and unmincd but progress Of the age against such
educatlon The 81 the people IA getting
mare refined every and not The rep"'"nIa
lives 81 the farmers tell that formerly they received
,gcr mice, for wrappers and that since the intro
duc.o Of Suinstra wrappers that part Of their crop has
,au.n I'm ,ricc when gold at a premium and all
,,r ,rccc brought higher price Ia rrecnbacks. they
,,.o ,ed higher prices then from ls3 to The year
1870 an .normou, IN the manufacture Of domestic
ioar was caused by the arr Of 1893 which so advanced
,c duv I'm cigars 10 shut ont Germany ch'lf'y from
| - -, Glazing a number Of factories employing many
thopsand operailyos taat country which hhd up WI
then with cuba almost wholly supplied his country Sud
denly great demand the domestic tobacco GRATED