The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-04-18
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton. Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
The debate has closed and the vote on
the Cuban reciprocity bill takes place IN
congress to-day. The friends of the
measure claim enough strength to carry
it through and to spare. When the con.
gressmen answer to their names and are
counted the tobacco and sugar produc-
ers will have an opportunity to see who
are their friends. We should then know
the representatives of the people who
are willing to sacrifice these important
industries under pressure of a sentiment
of sympathy for a foreign people. 1t is
the first time in the history of our gov
ernment when the prosperity of an out
side nation was considered paramount to
our own.
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The announcement that the F. G..
Linde, Hamilton & Co. have tobacco
storage in New York on which the insur-
ance rate is only 291a cents per 500
sounds queerly enough these days when
the country rates have just been boosted
from 25 to 40 per cent. Such instances
as these are what makes the injustice
of the recent advance more apparent.
The iron-clad readjustl ent of rates re-
Gently put into effect on tobacco cannot
last long ia our opinion It is manifestly
too unfair.
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The American Cigar Go. is still in the
absorbing business. It's latest capture
is the Cincinnati firm of Roth, Bruner &
Feist, manufacturers of the WAR Eagle
and other brands of cheroots and cheap
cigars. The firm of Roth, Bruner & Feist
is an old one For a number of years it
was the largest cigar manufacturing con-
Germ in Cincinnati The purchase of
this business wipes out the only large
competitor in the cheroot manufacture
ing field which the American Tobocco
Co. had
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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has made comprehensive ruling with
regard to the privileges enjoyed by a
farmer in the matter of disposing of Leaf
tobacco of his own growth, or that which
he may have received as rental for his
lands farmed by tenants. In view OF
modern warehousing methods, and the
fact that the Bureau has been disposed
to construe strictly the law imposing
special tax on leaf dealers, the Comnlis-
sioners ruling is of special interest. 1t
is as follows:
"You present several questions con-
corning leaf tobacco by and for farmers
who raise tobacco or who receive the
same from tenants or who buy the same
while it is growing in the fields, and also
whether a number of farmers may en-
ploy an agent to travel from place to
place and sell the tobacco for them.
I'm reply, you are informed that a
farmer or grower of tobacco may sell to-
bacco Of his own growth or raising, or
UAuO w A1SA AO ACOOlFCS llOLl LIS UClduL
as rent for land, without restrictions as
to the quantity sold or the business of
the person to whom the tobacco is sold
and delivered. This privilege is one
which the farmer or grower cannot dele
gate to another person.
'The office has decided that where a
grower of tobacco sells his crop before it
is severed from the land to another per-
son the purchaser would not be privi-
legged to resell the tobacco to consumers
without payment of the tax.
"a farmer grower of tobacco may place
his tobacco in the hands of a qualified
dealer in leaf tobacco to be sold by him
on commission, and such dealer must
sell the tobacco only to other qualified
leaf dealers or to qualified manufacture
ers OF tobacco or cigars, or to persons
who buy leaf tobacco in packages for ex-
port.
"Any arrangement made by farmer,
or number of farmers, with another
person to sell and deliver his or their to-
bacco for him or them while travelling
from place to place would be in violation
of law. An agent who is paid stipu-
lated salary may travel and solicit Or
ders for the sale of tobacco raised by
another person, but he may not deliver
the tobacco to purchasers, nor can he
sell tobacco on commission or receive as
compensation for his services the differ
ence between the price as fixed by the
farmer and the selling price.
"All tobacco sold Ey an agent for the
farmer who raised the tobacco must be
delivered by the farmer, and not the
agent. directly to the person who pur-
chased the tobacco; and a farmer must
sell his tobacco in the condition in which
it was cured on the farm and cannot
stem, twist, plait, roll sweeten or other
wise manipulate it for sale to consum-
ers."
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