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liberty; but I must admit to you that the law has had a re- 

 markably good effect in toning up the average of the pack, 

 and I know, further, that the producers are coming more 

 and more to depend on the law." It is having a great in- 

 fluence, just as Professor Sears has indicated. They don't 

 know when the inspector is coming, and so the pack is more 

 uniform than it was. I don't mean by that that all Maine 

 apples are good, even though branded No. 1, but we are get- 

 ting a more uniform pack then we had before the law, and 

 surely there is no movement in the State of IMaine, apparent 

 in any way, looking to its repeal. 



MR. G. N. SMITH : It seems to me that a law, in order 

 to be respected and obeyed, must be founded upon justice. 

 Now, you know that nobody respects our tax laws, because 

 they are not just. I believe as Mr. Mann does, that we have 

 altogether too many laws. We don't know what they are, 

 Hnd we can't oliey them if we do, and I lielieve with him 

 that we should all be given the right to do just as we please 

 in every particular, so long as we don't interefer with the 

 equal rights of anybody else. Now, a person who puts up a 

 barrel of apples and puts in inferior apples and labels them 

 No. 1, is either acting from ignorance or else he is wilfully 

 trying to deceive the purchaser, and there I think it is per- 

 fectly right and just that the law should step in to say that 

 he must put in nothing but No. 1, or else cut out the dis- 

 honest labeling. I think the law is perfectly right in protec- 

 ting the purchaser, but when you come to cut out our right 

 to put up apples unclassified, I think that is going too far. 

 If I don't feel competent- nr haven't a sufficient number of 

 apples or don't care, I think I should have a perfect right to 

 put those apples in as I wish, and sell them for what I can 

 get, provided anybody will buy them. AVhen you say I can't 

 do that, it seems to me you are interfering with my personal 

 liberty and the liberty of the purchaser. I admit that there 

 are a great many apples an the market that shouldn't be put 

 on the market. I saw some last summer that I told the man 

 I should be ashamed to buy. It isn't right to offer anybody 



