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have marmalades from England and wine from France, and 

 cheese from all nations; all these the farmer has upon his 

 table. And therefore, if this system of fraudulent manufac- 

 ture continues and expands, or continues as it is, the farmer 

 is directly injured as a consumer at his own table. 



For instance, how many of you use Java and Mocha 

 coffee? I don't know how it is here, but in our part of the 

 country everybody uses Java and ]Mocha coffee. Hardly 

 anybody in Washington will have an^^thing but that, they 

 won't use anything else ; but how many of them get a grain 

 of Java and Mocha? Not one. Every grain of Avhat they 

 use is grown in Brazil, — every one. What little Mocha or 

 Java is imported, is imported on private order. We im- 

 ported last year nearly 900,000,000 pounds of coffee, — 

 less than 4,000,000 pounds came from Java and Arabia ; 

 so you can know what proportion of the Avhole amount is 

 real Java and Mocha. And this that was imported Avas on 

 private order for special consumption, and was never sold 

 on the market. And when you go to the grocer to-day, 

 and he sells you Java and Mocha coffee, he defrauds you. 

 He may not know it, — 1 don't know that he does ; he 

 ought to know it, and you ought to know it. Why should 

 you pay 40 cents for coffee that costs 9 by the bag? I don't 

 want to say anything about the great coffee roasters, — they 

 are rich enough, however, to take care of themselves, — but 

 that is not the way to buy coffee. The purest way in the 

 world is to buy it green. You could get the very best 

 which you buy as Java and Mocha a year ago for 5 cents a 

 pound ; this year it has gone up to 9 cents. I bought a 

 bag the other day, and paid 9 cents, and it is the very 

 best you can buy. We grant, of course, that the coffee 

 dealer should make his profit; but the idea of selling coffee 

 that costs 9 cents a pound for 40 cents is a fraud, to my 

 mind, and should be prevented. So, when the grocer sells 

 you coffee and tells you it is Java and Mocha, you can tell 

 him it isn't true. This is a fraud u})on the farmer, because 

 the farmer is a large consumer of coffee. I think it is one 

 of the best beverages, if you don't use too much of it. 

 The way to use coffee is to roast it and grind it l)eforc it 



