The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-07


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We concur heartily in the opinion of
the u. S. Tobacco Journal chat it is eX-
ceedingly unfortunate that the tobacco
trade is so frequently disturbed by the
action of Congress or by fear lest there
may be action. There has hardly been a
season ia recent years when there has
not hung over some branch of the trade
cloud of uncertainty due to the posi-
bility of Congressional action involving
notifications of either tariff or internal
revenue laws. The fact that tobacco is
called upon to contribute literally to the
support of the nation through the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, as well as through
the Custom House, makes it the football
i of our national legislators whe@ever the
question of revenue is raised. Depres-
sion in business invariably &ollows the
agitation of tariff changes, aud the less
we have of it the better off the country
lis. Aside from the humanitarian argu-
ments there is no justification of urging
Congress to unsettle and disturb salts
factory business relations. The Journal
has hopes that the Senate will not be
3,committed to ILL ADVISED action on this
question for it says 1.-The House of Rep
resentatives in recent years has won a
reputation for hasty and sometimesill-
aots lr1t 10 aH1 1c
tinctly a deliberatiWe body, and safe
guards the business interests Of the
country by the conservative and meth-
odical fashion ia which it deals with
grave problems"
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Bad temper is beginning to Show in
| the great tobacco, war for the centrol
of British trade between the American
Tobacco Co. ae1d the combinations of
British manufacturers, says a recent let
tersfrom London. The British contest
dnt4is beginning to indulge in personali-
ties. For several morning now the lead
ing firm in the British combine has been
coming out with illustrated advertise
| ments in the papers, picturing' the Amer
lean eagle trying to masquerade as the
| British lion, or showing Uncle Sam hid
| ing behind an imitation bulldog, while
the.real thing ia bulldogs ,looks,Gn dis
| ,dainfully. This morning e.haWe John
Bull shooting the American eagle full of
holes, with appropriate text abeve, de-
scpibing the fate of foreign invaders who
come over to pose as home industries.
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Every year something that has been a
waste product takes on new use and
becomes profitable. A few years ago
cornstalks were a nuisance on many
farms, but now, when corn happens to
be low the stalks are worth as mach as
the corn. The same thing may be said
of tobacco stems. A few years ago the
farmers got the stems for twenty five
centsa load and many vere given away.
Early in the present season contracts
we're made with some Of the factories at
Sc a ton, soon they rose to $40 and S12
and now they are selliag at $40. The
most of them are used In making tobacco
extract for shipment to foreign markets.
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George Englehardt, who represented
the Milwaukee leaf tobacco dealers last
week before the Ways and Means com
mittee at Washington to protest against
the reduction of tariff on Cuban tobacco,
reported to Milwaukee dealers Monday.
He said that President Roosevelt assur-
ed the delegates that nothing would be
done to injure home industry. Mr.. En-
glehardt said that they were accorded