Munroe. of Florida. in his testimony before the Senate Finance subcommittee brought out this point most clearly when he said: What is. In my opinion. the reason for the agitation for the reduction of tariff on imported leaf tobacco is that. since such a procedure would break everyone in the tobacco business of Florida and Georgia. as well as many in Connecticut. the result would be that this particular type of tobacco would be controlled absolutely by the Dutch syndicate and their agents in the United States. a majority of whom are listed to appear before your honorable committee. and have appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of the House. thereby practically giving them control of the entire cigarmanufacturing business of this country. A further effect would be to at once eliminate the numbers of manufacturers of cigars using Florida and Georgia tobacco for wrappers as competitors to the users of their tobacco by either actually putting them out of business or by forcing them to pay any price demanded for Sumatra wrappers. it being a wellknown fact that Sumatra tobacco can be produced by the coolie labor for a great deal less than it can be produced in the United States. and to compete with this type of labor it would be necessary to reduce our standard of living to the level of the Far East. I have received hundreds of letters from domestic manufacturers of 5cent cigars who use both domestic and foreign wrappers and they state unqualifiedly that the domestic wrapper is quite as satisfactory as the foreign wrapper. In current issues of tobacco trade papers there have been presented various types of arguments inspired by certain cigar manufacturing companies. mostly under the control of the Dutch syndicate. contending that the Georgia and Florida shadegrown wrapper can not be successfully used as wrappers on the 5cent cigar.
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Generalization about coolie labor producing tobacco for less.