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put the question to him, "What is your remedy 1 How are you going 

 to prevent a repetition of this condition?" and his only answer was, 

 "Lei the whole 100 per cent of the growers come into the Exchange." 



Let me tell yon this my friends, thai despite the fact thai I have been 

 spending my days ami m.\ aights I raveling over the state of California, 

 from Eureka down to the border line, oo man has ever heard me advo- 

 cate thai Hid per cent of the growers should come into any one organi- 

 zation. I have novcr advised thai there should be mere than 70 or 

 7."' per cent, and why.' Because 100 per cenl of the growers would 

 spell monopoly and 1 am "agin" monopoly. 1 do not believe there is 

 any human being who is lit to be a monopolist, because monopoly 

 brings out of us our very worst and kills our very best. I should 

 regard it, a misfortune if I were to be placed in the position of a 

 monopolist. 



Place 100 per cent of the growers under the direction of Mr. Nagle, 

 however efficienl he may be today, and he will become big and fat and 

 lazy and you will get the least out of him. 



If I had been listening here as an uninformed grower, I would have 

 been led to believe by Mr. Nagle's statements that the state intended 

 to lake hold of every man's business ami manage it. The state doesn't 

 propose to do anything of the sort. One would further imagine from 

 what he has said, that I, as State Market Director, intend to take the 

 proposed State Bureau of Distribution and do the distributing myself. 

 Happily, I anticipated Mr. Nagle in my previous remarks with the 

 statement that T did not know the first thine about distribution and 

 that the details would be handled by a group of live distributors chosen 

 from among the distributors themselves and that they would select as 

 the head of that bureau the best man they could find. The burden of 

 cost for maintaining the bureau would not be on the state, but where 

 it belongs, where it is carried in the Imperial Valley, on the industry 

 itself, and the burden would be so light that nobody would feel it. 

 That loss of practically $10,000 in one day on the sale of pears in 

 New York as shown on the chart now before you would practically 

 cover the expense of the whole thing for a season. A banker in San 

 Francisco might say that he would not join the San Francisco clearing 

 house because the clearing house might interfere with his business. 

 The bank clearing houses in San Francisco and in Los Angeles are 

 established to eliminate waste and to expedite business, not to tell the 

 hankers how to make a profit, and this would be the only purpose of 

 the fruit bureau of information. To carry out the plan you must have 

 100 per cent of the shipments and you can safely have 100 per cent 

 for the purpose of distribution pure and simple, because you are not 

 controlling prices but simply giving information. 



