The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-05-26
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| ton that the forthcoming revenue bill
is not likely to include any increase of
taxes on tobacco; on the contrary the
committee having charge of the meas
ure intimates that the bill will repeal
| the special tax Of $3.50 levied on deal
ers in tobacco The reason assigned
| for the remittance of the tax is that it
| is annoying to large number of peo-
| pie, which is not desired in an election
year, and further because it does not
yield any great amount of revenue.
| Leave it to the politicians to find rea-
sonable excuse for throwing over an
obnoxious tax.
| Another big block of low grade Wis
consin leaf, exceeding million pounds,
which has been sold to the account of
an export firm confirms the belief that
| the European countries now at war are
| still in dire straits for tobacco supplies.
| Just when the ocean lines will be able
| tosdeliver the goods in European ports
is uncertain. This much we do know,
| shipments are continually being made
out of Wisconsin storage points to the
seaboard and it is intimated that it the
regular lines cannot guarantee delivery
| that steamships will be chartered es-
pecially for tobacco shipments to the
warning nations.
~
The cold, unreasonable weather that
has prevailed so largely the greater
part of May has retarded the growth
of the young plants until it begins to
| look like late planting season this
year. For whole week or more the
beds stood still and scarcely any pro-
| gress was noted Cold rains and low
temperatures also held up the corn
planting until nearly two weeks late.
Unless we have repetition Of last
| season, which is noted as one without
summer, warmer days should be due
| shortly and if favored with plenty of
them the delays might be overcome.
But late season is reported in all the
| cigar leaf states, so the Wisconsin
| growers have no more to complain of
than those elsewhere.
*s*
| The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco as
| sociation held it's annual convention at
Washington, D. c., on Monday and
| Tuesday of last week The convention
completed it's labors in three sessions,
| two on Monday and one on Tuesday.
| Monday mornings session was devoted
| to routine business including the read
| ing of the presidents able message,
| and the appointment of committees.
| The afternoon session was spent In the
| discussion of the resolutions, reported
by the resolution committee, some of
| which involved considerable discussion.
| Lunch was served in the convention
| hall, and at night the delegates saw
crackeriack show at Keith's, after
which they went to Harvey's for a
smoker. Tuesday morning the resolu
| tions committee reported some resolu-
tions that had been formulated over
night, and the discussion of these, the
/ election of officers and choosing the
next meeting place took up the morn
ing. Adjournment was taken at
| O'Clock and the delegates were left to
| their own devices until $780, when the
annual banquet was held in the Red
Room of the New Willard hotel. The
new officers are: Jos. F. Cullman Jr,
president; w. j. Lukaswitz, vice presi-
dent; Geo. M Berger, treasurer; jos.
| Mendelsohn, secretary. The last two
| are reflections. Mr.. Lukaswitz sue
ceeds S. Major Newburgh as vice pres
| ident The next convention will be
held in Hartford, Conn.,, the cordial in
vitation extended by Ben Hass and the
other members of the Hartford delega-
| tion being accepted with hurrah, en-
phasized with recollections of previous
conventions to which the Hartford del
egation has played host.
/ -
| Once the trade is agreed that either
/ the size or the price of the cigar of the
| present cannot be maintained, the ira
dition of price infiexibility or of an
| oversize cigar will vanish into the re-
pository of memory. For there cannot
| be any controversy or difference of
| opinion about the rising value of all
/ materials necessary in the process OF
manufacturing cigar. It has been
| brought home incontrovertibly both to
the mind and pocket of every retailer
and distributor, that the price of every
commodity for his own comfort has
enormously risen during the past few
years and that it is bound to still more
| steadily rise in the current prosperity
of the country which fast stimulates
vaster consumption than ever before
took place The knowledge and con-
seriousness of this steady advance must
inevitably convince him also, of the
unavoidable rise IN price of the COM
modify on which he depends for liv-
| ing. Neither the retailer, nor distrib-
utor, nor consumer can escape the con-
clusion that in the present wave of
rising prices he will have to swim the
| stream or drown. To impress this in
evitable fact on the distributor, retail
er and consumer should become the i'm
mediate propaganda Of the cigar indus
try. The facts should be presented to
him not only through individual COM