Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-21
Brazil Is Responsible
For Depression in Coffee

did the abolition OF slavery In the
United States on cotton.
1.-THE crops in Rio and Santos from |
1891 to 1896 averaged 100000 bags; |
from 1896 to 1901. $500, 900; from 1901 |
To 1908 about "a, SOC, 900. The minimum
prospect for the 10000 crop is 14.0O0,-
100 bags, with the possibility of reach.
ing even l6,OOO,09O or more.
The only remedy is a price which
would curtail the production, but that
price has not yet been reached, as the
Brazilians, while making poor mouth
and complaining about the hardship
OF low prices. are constantly increasing
their crops, as is shown above.
1T is not generally known that the
Brazilians have not only been raising
q high quality of coffee as well, and
while certain quality is dealt in as
! tasis on the Coffee Exchange. the quail
ity that Is delivered on contracts costs
about two cents more, so that the Bra
Zilians receive over 40 per cent. more
than the option basis In New York
would show
"A large proportion Of the intelligent
/ Irazilians are aiming TO teach the
farmers to raise their crops at as low
an expense as possible and to increase
the production so as completely TO out
do all other producing countries, even
If this should involve still lower prices
tor some time. II this Is carried out
and we continue to have large crops,
then the outlook is not favorable to
the large holders OF today. who. in
Europe, and this country as well. have
suffered enormous losses in the last
six years
THE United States. as a whole. Is
naturally the gamer by the low prices.
Figuring en- consumption of 5000 900
bags a year and The difference between
the present value and the prices ruling
from 1891 to 1896. the country is saw
ing from $6l 10000 to $4,000 900 n
year from the low prices of coffee.
The amount of coffee raised in Java
for importation to this country has
shrunk to such small proportions that
not even l per cent. of the total i'm
ported here is genuine Java. OF the
Mocha, there Is no doubt that large
quantity comes from Brazil. where the
Mocha tree has been transplanted, and
the consumer cannot detect the differ
eEce in the taste OF the Mocha as grown
In Arabia and the Mocha as grown in
Brazil.
ut is certain that not more than
rer cent. of the coffee sold as Mocha
and Java has ever seen Arabia and
Java, and IL the public desires TO be
deceived and buys coffee simply by the
description of Java and Mocha. paying
an exorbitant price for 1t the fault lies
at its own door.
while the country at large gains by
/ the reduction in the price paid to a
foreign country, the trade itself has
: learned by necessity to be very careful
with the present outlook and the large
actual, as well as prospective, supplies
, something unforeseen has 10 occur In
, the year 1903 to change the present
; gloomy aspect; and unless the unex'
!, Iected happens the coffee trade in thu
: United States is likely to continue Ia
: the cautious ways it has adopted dur
S ing the year 1902.
= Speculation may again try to resis
= further decline, but the law OF supply
e and demand rules supreme in a staple
y where the low price cannot create :
: new field of consumption as It doe
5 with corn, cotton and other staples"