Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-31
WOULD BIZ INJURIOUS.
The Admission Of Puerto Rico
Tobacco Free of Duty.
INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHORITY.

INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHORITY.
Editor L. w. Coon of the W isconsin To-
bacco Reporter, Does Not Favor Free
Trade with Puerto Rico. as 1t Would
he a Convenient Back Door by Which
to Enter Cuban Products Free-The
Late Professor Davies.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 30.--As every
body knows it looks like free trade
with our new insular possession
| was curious to know how Wiscon.
Eln tobacco growers felt about free to-
bacco from Puerto Rico.
The Tobacco Plant (Cincinnath
takes the ground that New England
farmers are already oyer-protected by
the duty on Sumatra leaf, so that they
can charge prices injurious to the man
ufacturers who have TO scrimp on the
hller to make up for the cost of the
wrapper. 1t is the manufacturers. the
publication says. who should have Il
grievance, and not the growers. Ii
adds that the Puerto Rican product
on account Of its nature and its in-
competitor with the American grown
wrappers. but that free trade with
Puerto Rico would even benefit the
New England producers and lead to
the expectation of domestic tobacco
1t adds. with a touch OF wnimsicality,
that the Porto Ricans would soon
learn to appreciate the superiority of
our filters and wrappers, and in time
would smoke no cigars unless made
from American grown tobacco"
Consulting Editor +. w. Coon, an
authority. editor of The Wisconsin To
bacco Reporter. of Edgerton, Dane
county, he replies
up to the present time / have not
felt that our government would for a
moment think of turning down the i'm
mense sums it was deriving from the
tariff duties on tobacco. But the pres
ident recommends free trade with
Puerto Rico. which, | think. | can see
would be bad precedent to establish.
That island does not produce any great
amount of tobacco as yet, but the
fields could be largely increased. But
the most danger lies, as ! view it, in
making Puerto Rico a convenient back
door for the running into our markets
of Cuban leaf free of duty. | hold that
both the sugar growers and tobacco
raiserS of this country are entitled to
conSideration-the protection they al
ready enjoy. To throw down their bus
mess now would rove a serious injury
to these industries and the benefits to
the consumers would be small in com
pariSon. This view is what Mr. Gusts
in the Chicago Record calls selfishness,
- L.. 1T
protection can stand on that platform
consistently"
"Child-Study" is q matter one hears
much about i'm Madison; and, indeed,
the lectures and efforts of Professor
O'Shea. Professors Justrow, Sharp
and others are engaging the interest
of the whole state.
"a feature of it is 'feeding''-for
at last the world is beginning to realize
that the man is largely determined by
what goes into his stomach. This has
been known of cows and sheep for Il
long time; and now it is held that the
human intellect even along with the
passions and nclnations and manners.
is related to the food element with
which the child is fed.
In this new campaign Battle
Greek" is the slogan. Many of our
people have been over to the Michigan
sanitarium and come back enthusiast
tic over the peculiar ideas that abound
there. Probably twenty of our fam-
lies get their food supplies direct from
there-cereal coffee and zweibach
twice baked bread, and breakfast
foods and nut preparations that make
the eating of meat unnecessary. DR..
Kellogg is the presiding genius of the
place--a little man who is noted a. IA
surgeon. In his great sauitOrium $50
il is spelled he has staff of a dozen
physicians and there is branch hos
pital and sanitorium in Nebraska, for
Battle Creek is not favorable for throat
troubles. 1t is said that DR.. Kellogg
once determined to put up plant in
Madison. and even got land options,
but something interfered. He has at
tanned note as Il surgeon, and once did
twenty operations a week. The other
doctors. indeed, said his enthusiasm
led him to operate too frequently; but
of late he is doing many fewer opera
tions. believing that he can reach de
sired results by systematic feeding,
massage and the like. He is an apos-
tie of good sense and no one can read
his health periodicals, in which he lays
stress on outdoor life, rest, sleep, sim
pie foods, bathing etc, without say
ing amen" to every sentence He is
man with big heart, as shown by
the fact that he has large family of
adopted children, of all ages, from
babes up. These he is bringing UP
along the line of his ideas, and those
who have seen the family together say
ii is remarkable what suburb look
ing company it is--from the babes up,
with firm, pink flesh. straight as In
diaas, with clear eyes and full OF
quick. earnest vitality-even their
teeth are perfect. So much for the alb
sence of Ineat--for ii is a vegetarian
community-and the use of cereals is
exclusive. Of one breakfast food it Is
said it is baked twenty hours to con-
vert every particle of the starch.
Cereal coffee had it's start in Bat
tie Creek. IT one car get to like it,
he feels much better tnan If he We're
dosing himself with coffee. But only a
few cooks can make it palatable A
r young lady who was demonstrating"
for the drink in grocery stores tells me
they used TO remark it tasted best
about noon-that is. the drink had been
on the fire and kept under the boiling
point for hours. There are rival
brands OF this vegetable coffee"-how
they compare. I do not know. A Chi
cago young man connected with cof-
fee house is reported as saying that
one OF the rival concerns is one of
their largest buyers of cheap grade
of c0ffee-presumably to mix with the
grains of cereal. II must be a tempta-
tion to give little coffee admixture
fer sweet flavor's sake-and, no doubt.
II is better to drink half coffee than
the full strength. Massage gnd all
kinds or baths play large part in Bat
tie Greek treatment, as they do at Mt.
Clemens and other resorts. The port
able Turkish bath" is IA great popular.
ity here and elsewhere. Lit consists of
a cabinet of leather or rubber screens,
in which the person sits, the heat be.
ing supplied by little alcohol lamp.
If one avoids taking cold it would
seem a beneficial thing-not too fire.
quently, for nature has provided ma
chinery to exude and carry off the
waste of the body.