PATRIOTIC TEA DRINKING

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 7

PATRIOTIC TEA DRINKING

The China and Japan Products Arc Ousted by the British in Ceylon. "Careful and intelligent efforts ■ of the British government to have J its people consume the tea grown on one of its possessions have had a remarkable effect," said \yilliani Sidney Welling, who represents^ large tea firm with headquarters at London, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. "The people have taken " to the idea of using British pro ducts, and the tea growing indus try as; a result in Ceylon is beginning to pick up. Ceylon was tin 1 last of. the three easternxouatiirs to engage in the industry. Chinr started, then Japan followed, and for a few years these two countries had a monopoly of the business, even in the united kingdom. "At the last moment the inhabi j tants of Ceylon began to grow Iton a small scale, but the businesflourished so that acreage devote to the raising of this staple ir. creased enormously. And tin* beauty of the whole matter wsirv the fact that the Ceyloniansm:::; aged their export trade so wei: that 92 per cent, of their product ] was sold in the British posso'sions, ousting the tea of China tui;' Japan. j "During the last ten years tinamount of Indian tea consumed b; the people of England alone ha: increased more than 70 ]>ci i cont Considering the fact that Japai . and China had a firm hok" 1 on tintea market when tho CVyioninn: started out, this is quite remarka ble. It shows that the British people are willing to support cacl j other, although they may be of dif ferent hue and may be thousands of miles apart."