The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-06-02
$3.50 900 a Year for Boxes

For example. the tobacco trade con-
sumes each year I5.Opo0Dp pounds ~
licorice. 50up.p1 pounds ~ sugar.
both used In havorine tobacco. and
Gj0,Oco tons Of coal u Is estimated
that the value Of wooden cigar boxes
used Is s2a.G1.OoO year quite an
item 20 the lumber business and TO
manufacturers ~ the boxes
In making these boxes 10000
pounds 81 nails are employed Other
large items used In making and pre-
pairing tobacco for sale are tin and
lead foil. paper for bugs and cigarette
wrappers. cloth for tobacco bags. Ia.
be!s. coupons, etc. involving the print.
Ing trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manu-
faciursrs 81 machinery are largely in
terested. Investments IN plants and
machinery employed In manufnctur-
INK tobacco are estimated ut slO2 CO.,
80. Replacement. up-keep and inter
est on the investment make no small
sum annually.
And let realty men note there are
approximately 3a5Oco tobacco farms
In the country. with n total estimated
valuation ~ lOOOo.Ooo. az further In
terest 20 real estate men Is the fact
that there are 10000 retail establish
ments selling tobacco. involving a total
rental and up-keep impossible 20 esti-
mate. besides the large amount % ~.
fee space occupied by administrative
branches ~ the general business
The insurance men. too. have their
share 81 the plckings The tobacco
business pays out annually s7.Goo.OOO
In premiums In the United States
And there are the railroads who reap
revenue from 2.2i0ooo tons % tobacco
products every year
As for the advertising business.
here again II Il impossible 20 form
any estimate 81 the enormous annual
outlay.
III. prohibition % tobacco would also
knock a good-sized hole In the receipts
~ the United states government.
The internal revenue receipts from
tobacco for the fiscal year ia20 amount
ri 20 S20a. sO0 355lI Customs duties
provided an additional s25.Oo00po In
round figures. making the total revenu.
return 20 the government s.i2O.0Da.OO0.
Influence on Popular Sentiment
II Is this interlocking ~ the tobacco
business with 80 many other Interests
md the vast amount % financial loss
hat would be involved In the abolition !
u tobacco that IL one Of the most SCI |
rious aspects ~ the proposal 10 pro-
hlblt the sale 81 tobacco. a proposaI. !
however. which has little support by |
public sentiment II the newspaper edl. |
Iors 81 the country are correct IN their |
estimate ~ that sentiment.
In poll ~ the editors made recently 1
~ the Tobacco Merchants Association /
II the United States. through the Press |
service Company ~ New York city. /
y per cent ~ the 7.s47 editors Who 1
'eplied expressed the opinion that the
,eOple Of their communities were op-
,osed 20 any law against tobacco. A.
hese editors represent some SOOOOOOo 4
'saders the results form a pretty gen.
'ral test ~ national opinion.
In their remarks accompanying their
eplies many ~ the editors oppressed
{ as their opinion that the oppos ton
u their communities 10 the abolition
4 tobacco was based io some extern IA
east on the damage such change
would DO 10 the business Interests ~
he community This was particularly
rue In the tobacco growing states and
enters where there were large tobacco
,lanis
But when the extent q the business
involved IN the allied Interests ~ the
obacco trade n considered a. above
riefiy outlined, II II clear that there
! hardly a section Of the country that
rOuld not 10 Affected directly an in