The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-31
COFFEE AND SUGAR.

Coffee and sugar are among the
natural harmonies of nature. They
go together in sweet concord as natur-
ally as flowers and sweet scents or
birds and songs. For the great major
ity of coffee drinkers they are as use
less one without the other" as Hia-
watha's bow and string were The
bitterness of the one loses itself in
the sweetness of the other, while the
excess of sweetness in the other that
pals on the tongue and disorders the
digestive acids, is happily corrected by
its mingling with the fluid extract Of
the one. Even since mans intellec-
tual ferment evolved each from ma
lures hidden resources, harmony has
dweIt in the cup wherein they met and
mingled.
But there is war between Sugar and
Coffee. Not in the cup and not in the
coffee pot does this tempest rage, but
in the marts and on the exchanges.
Coffee has invaded the principaIity Of
Sugar, and, in retaliation Sugar has
sent its armed 1egions into the domin-
Ion Of Coffee. Modified under the
command of that great strategist, Gen.
HaVemeyer. the forces Of Sugar ara
arrayed to assist and give counter
attack to the forces of Coffee, gath
cred under the command Of q fresh
Napoleon, Gen. Arbuckle And, while
no Ii &Ioo
are thronged with eager and excited
brokers, stalking their hard-earned
means on the issue, while wondering
housewives are surprised by slight re-
auctions in the price Of the packages
of roasted and ground. Sugar has met
and conquered many assailants before,
but never came an enemy from so un
expected and unnatural a quarter IF
has fought with its ambitious chief
tains, as when Spreckels proudly
marched across the Rockies and in
Vaded the purleus Of Havemeyer. only
to succumb to the Iatter's battalions.
Whlle the spasmodic revolts of lesser
barons have been promptly suuelched.
The Arbuckles had waxed strong
and opulent in Coffee They looked in
tolerant contempt on the WooIsons
ana others, who presumed to contest
with them for popular favor among
the drinkers Of the extract Of the ex
Vibrating bean. Grown rich, with an
petite for more riches, they came IN
nT1Xv
wherein the Havemeyers had amassed
fortunes, and finally invaded it. They
erected their refinery in Brooklyn, right
under the august Haveneyerian noses
and proceeded to take the raw and
nasty product Of the cane and the
beet and convert it into the snowy
granulate that makes our morning
cup Of coffee palatable. Whereupon
the Havemeyers, like the redoubtab1e
William the Testy, swore mighty oaths
Of vengeance. They gathered their
Idle millions and went out to Toledo.
in the state Of Mckinley, and captured
the Woolsons' coffee mills. Not with
out contest though, for the Woolsons
only parted with their shares after the
Havemeyers had rejected their demand
Of $1,000 a share and threatened to put
in coffee roasters and mills of their
own. Then they let them In on their
ground floor for $1,000 a share to the
extent of LOO shares
Then Havemeyer opened his batteries
on Arbuckle. Coffee went down half q
cent or SO pound, just an opening
gun to get the range and intimate to
the defiant Arbuckles what they NAV
expect when the fighting blood Of the
Havemeyers gets warmed up and bust
ness begins in earnest Meanwhile
the Arbuckles are imperturbabIe in
their calmness. They show no signs of
craven fear. They meet the cut
promptly. They are ready to meet 9th
ers. I'VE are playing with our own
money! says one Of them, while the
Ravemeyers are playing with that Of