The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-04-08

bacco is needed for other farm work and
one or the other must be neglected.
This condition in connection with the
low prices prevailing helps bring about
general feeling that tobacco growing is
net as pleasant occupation as heretofore,
hence it is not surprising that the sugar
beet promoters find ready listeners
throughout the tobacco sections, and the
talk of reducing acreage is heard on
every hand.
While this talk of cutting down the
acreage is going on there is consolation
for the growers who stay in the business
in the fact that there is really NO over
production in any of the cigar leaf states.
With good crop this year the market
will be readysto absorb every pound of
it, for the consumption of cigar tobacco
is ever on the increase. The food of
cheap cigars and the price cutting at.re-
tail only stimulates the demand and
makes more converts for low priced
smokes. That cut-price cigars must
necessarily be cheaply made, and the leaf
contained therein be cheaply bought,
goes without saying. Yet if the cheaper
grades of leaf are worked up rapidly in
this fashion, there is still greater demand
for the better quality of goods. The
price for the new Sumatra is we'll main
tanned st the late inscriptions, showing
that the importers have faith Of per-
| ,nanent demand for this class of wrap
| pers. The Cuban crop now in the sheds
| is one OF the largest ever produced on
the island. AS big crop means a lot of
| filters, the material for high grade ci-
! ger will not be wanting.
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g. e lie an.i-coupoE bill introduced 10y
1 sCongressman Tawney was defeated in
lscommittee of Ways and Means last weess
1 and thus all hope of it's becoming a laW
4 during the present session has vanished
! The bill was originally introduced by
| Representative Often in the last Con.
gress, at its second session, Representa-
tive Tawney following with the intro
duction of a.similar bill. At that time
all but threerof the-:g59 independent to-
bacco manufacturers who had been com
municateo with by the Independent
| Manufacturers Association Endorsed the
| bill, bat at this session there Was .great
| opposition 30 the 'bill OH the part of the
independent manufacturers themselves
The same gule applied to either legisla
| tiOn that the Interests demanding j.
should be fairly >anited, was doubtless
the oause~of the, es ection of this measure
I'm the opinion of the II. S. Tobacco
journal, the immediate efect.of the kill
ing of the Tawney bill Will bea rapid la
crease in coupon schemes, indeed sc
rapid as to generate with it tne germs so1
a ga2lopiEg consumpEioo- The couper
will become SO general and widespread
that 1T Ezill lose the attraction of novelty
and losing thatast will sicken and nause
ate the consumer by it's staleness and WE
therefore do not hesitate to predict thai
before the new, that is, the Fifty-nintt
Congress meets in December. 1905, tine
coupon system will be SO played cut
that no legislation will be necessary te
kill it. ut will by that tame have die6 6
/ natural deathtfE0m sheer self-exhaustion
/ Our somewhat bold prediction is basec
on experience. The premium system
{ for which the coupon is merely sthe
"paller.in' has13ourished once before ir
the nineties. The competition in tine
allotment. of premiums grew then sock
| tragagant as toeanclude horse and buggy
and town lots in the premium list Bat
| the very excess proved its ath-kne3l
and SO eit will happen the coupeE
schemes now when everybody will rush
| into the freeEfor all field tosoutbid his
competitor For the American people
| tire as quickly Of fad when overdone
as it takes TO it Ezsaen a mere no9elty.
| ~
| The month of February vas Gn active
one in tobacco, cigarette and sn1f fac
| tories. The cigar output was eurtailed
| to some extent, although the decrease
| was more than made up in the output Of
small cigars. These facts are brought
out by the returns of the Internal Reve-
nue. Department at Washington. In to-
/ bacco factories the activity has been ex-
ceptional. The total output was greater
! than that of January by 964, 1856 33336 pounds,
I and greater than February, 1903, by
T. 263, 1853 pounds. When it is considered
| that February is short month. these
Ggures express an added significance.
February is usually the month of mini
| mum production OF the year, but this
year this will not held good. The cigar
| production, as compared with the re-
turns for January, gives better impress
sion than when compared with February
| of last year. Taken as whole, the
month may be said to have been good
Zone, although some tendency is evident
on the part of the public to turn TO the
cheaner forms of tohacco