The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-01-21
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fogs that produced the casing weather
that tobacco growers have been anx-
iously awaiting for some weeks. The
tobacco damp came none too soon to
relieve rather strained situation at
the packing centers, for the warehouses
could hardly continue their asserting
another week with the stocks of bum
die goods on hand. The mild weather
continued long enough in the southern
sections at least to bring the hanging
tobacco into almost any desired case
and afforded the growers an opportun-
ity to remove from the sheds the last
of the remnant portion of their crops
and permit stripping to proceed. 1t
also means that the packing season is
likely to proceed without interruption
which it was feared might occur if
freezing weather continued for any
length of time. A season of casing
weather without rain at this time of
year was most desired because of the
tendency of tobacco to take on too high
case in the winter months. So much
of the present crop is of such thin
nature that high case condition was one
of the things to beware of, so the
growers are especially fortunate in
having the casing weather brought in
with a fog instead of rains.
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1t is not surprising that cable dis
patch from Germany reveals a bitter
feeling among the masses of the people
there on account of the recent grappl-
ing Of the tobacco market by the home
government, as a means of increasing
its revenue The tobacco duties were
already high enough to make the weed
we'll nigh a luxury, but the latest Ger
man budget seems to rely immensely
on tobacco, the great solace of the peo-
PIE, for battleship funds and other ex-
penses in which royalty is SO prolific.
According to this dispatch the Germans
are so restive under the tobacco taxes
that they are swearing off from it's use
in an effort to make the tax inopera-
tive. Analysis of pretty much all the
internal taxation of the European coun-
tries would disclose systematized effort
to make tobacco respond to the whims
of imperial extravaganza. Returning
travellers are general in their statement
that decent cigars and tobacco are well
nigh out of reach in all European coun-
tries. Cigars are viler than words can
describe and cigarettes of the purer
kind are mercilessly taxed. Even plug
tobacco, which becomes finally the
"quid" of the sailor and landsman, is
almost on parity with silver, ounce
for ounce, when the laborer comes to
buy.
Thos. w. Lawson of ''Frenzied FL
nance" reputation has an idea that he
would like to invade the tobacco field
by taking over the hurley pool on a
stock jobbing proposition that would
absorb millions of the peoples money.
Here is his scheme, an original one to
say the least: Roughly this new or
ganization will have capital at the
start of some $50, 100000. This $780,
OOO,0 900 / will raise for the new organi-
zation from the three classes | have
named under novel and heretofore un-
heard of means, and without charge of
any kind to the new organization. The
people who pay in this capital will re-
ceive stock which will be an entirely
new form of stock, to all intents and
purposes duplicate in shape and gen.
eral form of our ten-dollar bills, al
though, of course, in no way taking the
form of money This stock will pay
per cent yearly dividends never any
more and never any less, as all earn
ings over this per cent must be re-
turned to the consumer in the reduced
price of the goods sold each six months
and this per cent will be 333 per cent
more than the people now receive for
their money in the savings bank. This
stock will carry no voting power, and
will be, in fact, but duplicate of the
passbook of the savings bank depositor,
so that if the entire issre eventually
falls into the hands of capitalists or of
the system, it can IN no way lead them
into control or management of the or
ganization The organization will be
entirely and for all time in the hands
and absolute control of board of gov
ernors, consisting of 21 of the repre-
sentative men of Kentucky" Concern
ing the proposition the U. S. Tobacco
Journal says: Having fieeced the pub
lie, as reported at one time, out of
thirty millions of dollars, both in con-
nection with the System and with
other rapacious and unscrupulous en-
terprises, the author of .sFrenzied FL
nance is out for fifty millions more of
the peoples money in trying to convert
the Tobacco Pooling Trust into veri-
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