The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-15
Do NOT HESITATE TO BOOST
PRICES ON ALL COMMODITIES
PROFITEERS WARNED T H E Y
WILL BE GIVEN DOSE OWN
MEDICINE UNLESS DESIST.
TRADE WAR MAY BE RESULT
Americans Spend 800 Million Dollars
Each Year for Necessary Articles
They Cannot Obtain in Their Own
Country. Grafters Wax Fat.

Country. GratterS wax Fat
Americans are paying ten cent9 in
restaurants for what used to be a
nickels worth of coffee.
American housewives are paying 40,
so and 90 cents a pound for coffee that
used to cost rs or so cents.
Overshoes that two years ago sold
for 20 or rs cents today cost from
SIPS to $1.50.
Automobile tires today cost 90 or
Is per cent more than they did year
ago.
Why?
Because the American people are
paving $3000O0000 a year in excess
and unreasonable prices to foreign
governments that hold monopolies on
the necessities of life! Because each
wear industries of the United States
are compelled to spend 80O,OO0,O0O
for commodities which cannot be OBJ
tanned in this country and which have
been "cornered" by foreign nations.
A trade war is the only means tor
the United States to escape these mod
ern Shylocks. At least so says Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover. The Unit
ed States, Mr. Hoover asserts, may
be forced to organize to retaliate by
showing upward the prices Of COM
modities it produces for world trade.
Rubber Takes the Lead.
Thirteen necessities OF the industrial
life of the United States are sold
through monopolies controlled by for
eign governments. The most import
ant of these are coffee, rubber and nj
trates. On the other hand the United
States produces virtually the worlds
supply OF cotton, crude OIL and cop
per of the better grades.
Secretary Hoover has warned the
world that, unless foreign govern
ments cease their grating in the eX-
port market, the United States will
be forced to play the same game with
the commodities which it exports to
the world. There is no time for delay,
Mr. Hoover warns. Foreign. CONNER
cial grafters must descend from their
high horses or take a dose OF their
own medicine
Rubber has outrun all the other
commodities in the upward race Of
onopoly-controled products. Eight
months ago rubber was worth 80 to
IS cents a pound Today it costs dol
lar a pound-and the production of
rubber is being curtai1ed to force the
price still higher That is why rubber
goods have advanced so rapidly in
price for the user.
A total of $876,000,000 is invested
in the world rubber industry. OF that
total $505,000,000 is English capital.
The United States has only $30000,-
600 invested in the industry.
In 1922 the United States imported
sol 90 tons of the total world produc
ton of $1,000 tons of raw rubber.
The value OF the rubber imported was
SOL ,843, 1888 In this same year 90 per
cent of all the rubber was produced
in the Far East-and 20 per cent of
the rubber plantations in that part Of
the world are controlled by British in
terests
Philippines Offer Remedy.
The Philippine Islands offer a rene
dy for the situation and chance for
the United States to escape this mo-
nopoly
In the Philippines today there are
four rubber plantations covering 1880
acres, with 100000 additional acres
suitable for rubber growing. The tenn
perature and conditions of the soil are
suitable for rubber growing. The cost
of growing one acre is estimated at
500 to $500, against about $3.50 in
the middle east.
Already experts of the United States
government are planning to open more
rubber producing land in the Philip
pines and in South America.
June 80, 1924, the average price of
coffee when ready for shipment was
1445 cents pound, but by June 80,
1925, the price had increased AS per
cent, or to 20.S7 cents a pound At
the same time, however, the price of
Brazilian coffee Increased SIS per cent
That increase in price cost the Ameri-
can people $50, 100000 during a single
year.
In 1924 the United States was i'm
porting l,429,6O0,000 pounds OF coffee,
but in 1925 the total is expected to
be less, about 1,279,600,000 pounds
Sixty-seven per cent of all the coffee