142 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



cancel such rates and establish reasonable rates which shall not 

 be stayed, susi^ended, modified, or annulled, otherwise than by 

 the commission in the establishment of a new rate or rates or 

 by a final decree of the United States court of competent juris- 

 diction for manifest violation of error of law." 



I don't know what better I could do now, than move the 

 adoption of this resolution. 



Motion being regularly seconded, the above resolution was 

 unanimously adopted by the Nebraska State Horticultural 

 Society. 



The President: It is our pleasure to have with us this after- 

 noon, Professor Green of the University of Minnesota. We 

 would like to hear a few words from him. 



Professor Green : Mr. President, Ladies mid Gentlemen: I 

 just thought I would sort of sneak in to see what was going on. 

 I didn't expect to be called on to make any speech. But I will 

 say that I like to see what is being done in the different sections 

 of the country. I have a great power of absorbing horticul- 

 tural information when I am in a crowd like this. I don't know 

 what I have to say that would do you any good. 



There is one thing I have noticed though, that certainly speaks 

 well for horticulture in Nebraska, and that is the fact that there 

 are men of force and energy interested in it. They are suffi- 

 ciently interested to come together in meetings like this for the 

 discussion of subjects and questions of mutual concern. This 

 matter of Railroad rates, which we have just listened to is a 

 rather discouraging one, and it is on just such important ques- 

 tions as this that it is good to come together on and discuss. 

 In this question of Railroad rates, nothing can be done without 

 co-operation, and it is only by co-operation that w^^e are going to 

 get justice. When the people work together against the dis- 

 criminations of the Railroads, and only then, there will be a 

 public sentiment aroused that the Railroads cannot put down. 

 (Applause.) When this sentiment is aroused, and justly so, the 

 Railroads will be glad to fall into line and become just what 

 they really are, — common carriers. (Applause.) 



I don't think I have anything more to say while up here, un- 

 less it is to emphasize the inspiration we get from coming to- 



