ITEMS OF INTEREST December 2, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Charges that a coffee combine exists which is "the most monstrous imposition in the history of human commerce," were made before the National Coffee Roasters Association at Chicago last week and they were urged to initiate a movement to overthrow Brazilian domination of the coffee market. "We have to pay famine prices for coffee where no famine exists," was alleged. "Brazil produces percent of the world's coffee. The government issues bonds to the amount of seventy-five million dollars to buy the surplus stock of coffee. The coffee is turned over to the banking syndicate, which is in absolute control of the coffee market of the world. Herein Brazil, by abrogating her legislative powers, has violated her treaty obligations, and the matter should be a subject of inquiry by the American state department."

The promoters of the Atlantic & Pacific Transportation Company announce that they will be compelled to abandon their project to establish a fleet of independent vessels between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans by way of the Panama canal because the financial backing, influenced, it is said, by transcontinental railroad interests, on which they had relied, has been withdrawn, and this may result in the government constructing and operating a line of steamships to run through the canal. The question which is likely to receive much attention in Congress during the coming session is whether the transcontinental railroad shall control transportation from the Alantic to the Pacific by way of the canal after the waterway shall have been completed.

Delegates from Maine to Oregon were present last week when the first American Good Roads Congress assembled at Richmond, Va., for its initial session. The principal object of the organization is a nation-wide campaign for correlated systems of good roads. Under the auspices of the National Association for High way Improvement, delegates have been sent from nearly every state in the Union. Southern states especially showed marked interest in the propaganda. The congress plans not only an active campaign for more good roads, but a propaganda of education for the preservation of those which exist.

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