The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
COFFEE TOO C0SI)
FOR POOR MAlN|
Rapid Rise in Price Of s.
ite Beverage Is Cause i
Discomfort.
NATURE HELPS TRI
No Cessation in Advance
pected for a Year, DE-.
clare Dealers.
NATURE HELPS Tpl'

Coffee is high and will be |,
During the coming week the rct,S
on so and 35-cent coffee will 90 e
higher. For the present there will
further advance in the higher !,
though It wlli not he long bcfot,
also Will soar.
Wholesale prices have mlvanss
greater extent than tho prizes
consumer. In fact the wholcsals,
been getting the worst of the mai
around. One wholesale man no;r,.
yesterday that for five beps AZ
which Il year ago would have eos
S1J he had Just paid 800, and \
sidercd himself fortunate to ssi
this price. During the past fous
there has been au advance TO ths
saler OF 81, cents pound. r.
the lower grades nf coffee arr =
cents a pound more than ther
year ago and on the higher rrsi'
prices are D cents higher. Tben
wholesale advance of one. eight
cent pound during the past we:l
May Force Substitute
Coffee is rapidly becoming 2 N
II the present status of che mark
tiuucs the fayorIte morning drisl|
disappear from the breakfast ~
all but the rich. The only cop.cj1
is that cbicory is by 10 means ~
and that n taste for it can he =
cultivated. Indeed. there arc mann
can well afford the hest grades n
fec who like a slight admiXture of
ory with il.
The cbicorY business is rapidIy \
ing. present consumption bciuc an
mately Eve times the amount of
years ago. Many of the high elau
taurants havo actually discoyersd
little chicory miyed in makes
preferable 10 the uoa1uitcrated bbsI
is said in the trade papers that III
sumption Of coffee has diminisAed
per cent rather by the substituiio,
ess thau actual cuftailmcnt OF tte/
crage.
There are two great reasons q
present condition Of the coffee -
and besides these the supply bss,,|
" kept pace with the dema2
Brazilian government IS poIicyf Z
oriGation is chiefly blamed an
forts Of that government h
money out Of the beverage bu I|
ably seconded by an iuternasiosl F..
dicato which has sequestIuted I'D
fee the Brazilian government
lowed TO leave the shores Of thDt &
try. 81
Nature Aided Trust
It was European milliopaires VI
able1 Brazil 10 stop supplies. Ii
few American millionaires VINO q
later and made the situation wou[
These benevolent trust msa|
might have failed entirely in iha
forts had not they been helped b
turc. The coffee crop, like eotto,|
tobacco. depnds absolutely on sfn
conditions, Brazil is fortunate e
to have the best climate for the p1|
tion and ordinarily could suppl
world, The climate has not been q
able for some time past and the N1
have been emitting out dead WOO
replacing with new trees. II u
two years before the crop will be
the average.
With the supply really short th'
lillian government kept on in lts
10 control the coffee prices OF the n
They prevented by law the plsnilI|
additional trees and levied 40 q
tax OF coffee. What is grown ls|
chased by the government wm!|
working III conjunction with tde g
tic trust and is held in reserve.
issued TO handle this scheme were q
up by European bankers. With q
sistancc of the American finsucm!
j, =. Morgan. II is 10 this bond
that the success of the policy 10
United States Suffers.
II is ou the United States thz
action OF the Bra oiliau government
hardest. The people of this coult
the greatest coffee drinkers .ip
world. nsirc annually l.00ON
pounds which costs 1925, 100000 q
q wear
1t is upon the poorer man th,
burden has fallen for II is IN tue
or medium grades that the e9i''
vances bave been made. Tosf.
process cohces have not sdyaoee4
l. i'll proportion. When IL is c!gl:'
that milk aud sugar are also hl
viii be seen that tbe breakfast fap'
received u hard knock,
The inland towns nrs pecubans
less for ordinarily they are the la'
piled. The middlemau in this
worse of than the actual consqH'
he cannot meet the sdv$eed
a against him with a corIesponol'
crease to the public which H~
stand for il.
Dealers arc now hoping for
crop this year which may help 70
ierbalsnce present conditions,
wiser. however, do not believe Wy
relief will be in sight for ~ =
wear. Salt Lake housewives VII.
fore. have to calculate accordlnE
high and probably higher prices
The first Of the year.