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believe that none have been thus established. If they have, they are 

 only here and there, and do not represent a general carrying out of 

 the act. 



I contend that the act itself was one of the greatest mistakes by our 

 California legislature. It was ill-conceived, false in theory and 

 impossible in practice. 



However, aside from that, let me say to you that the attack made 

 by the State Market Commission upon the California Fruit Exchange 

 and the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, the two cooperative 

 market organizations of the state, is an attack upon the largest and 

 most successful organizations, marketing practically all of the fruit 

 of the growers within the United States. It is an attack upon the 

 general theory upon which we are trying to advance in marketing and 

 that is the control of marketing organizations by the growers them- 

 selves. Instead of endeavoring to rectify the abuses existing within 

 the state, it is my contention that the State Market Bureau has used 

 the finances of the organization in scattering broadcast through the 

 state the letters so many of you have received, to club the California 

 Fruit Exchange into line, and because one man. John L. Nagle. had 

 the courage and the grit and the backbone to take upon himself the 

 personal burden, he has been made the goat. Colonel Weinstock has 

 fallen down on the job and he wishes to make the California Fruit 

 Exchange the goat for his failure. That is the situation. In endeavor- 

 ing to change conditions he attacks the greatest forces that are 

 endeavoring to build up the well-being of the California fruit growers. 

 the cooperative organizations of the state; and the organizations that 

 are now handling the citrus and deciduous fruits under the ideas of 

 the California Fruit Growers' Exchange and the California Fruit 

 Exchange, have embodied in their organizations the same broad princi- 

 ples upon winch the raisin men and the nut men and the prune men 

 and all the others are operating. If one is attacked, it is an attack 

 upon the general principles underlying them all. We know that in 

 these organizations lies our best hope of sin-cess. 



I would not impugn his motives. I feel that he has the best 

 intentions. I have such a high opinion of him that I hate to criticize 

 him as an official. I want to attack the act. I want to see it at the 

 next legislature either amended and made beneficial and practicable 

 and workable, or I want to see il wiped out. It is a farce as it stands. 

 Our legislature made the initial mistake and Colonel Weinstock has 

 made one equally great in trying to read into that act a meaning that 

 it is not intended it should contain. 



