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78 "Why, we could n't make any money out of tobacco while such a law was in existence," said one Sumatra planter.

"But we are concerned with the prosperity of our own American tobacco-growers. It is for the Dutch government to make laws to benefit the tobacco-planters of Sumatra."

"Ah! but you have new and better laws now since that last revolution in the States, and we are all planting all the tobacco we can. We shall be very prosperous now."