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on Sunday. It is against the law in ^Massachusetts, to pick 

 strawberries on Sunday; to cut asparagus on Sunday; to 

 pick cranberries on Sunday. That law is not enforced. 

 There are probably a good many people here who have 

 picked strawberries on Sunday, but 1 doubt if any of them 

 were ever prosecuted for it. I can look out of my window in 

 Concord on most any Sunday in the asparagus season and 

 see people breaking the law, but I could never earn much 

 by turning State's evidence against them. The reason is 

 that in our present state of industry it seems necessary to do 

 certain pieces of work on Sunday, and so public opinion has 

 gone by this law. 



Down in the New York Produce Exchange, where they 

 deal in wheat and oats in large quantities, a man will come 

 into the wheat pit and say "sell 100,000 wheat at $1.25; 

 a man on the opposite side of the pit who wants to buy 

 wheat will nod his head or put up his fore tlnger and say 

 "you'i'e on.'' Now. there is a contract by which one man 

 has agreed to sell and the other to buy 100,000 bushels of 

 wheat, but the contract is not enforceable at law because it 

 is not in writing, and every contract for the sale of goods of 

 over the value of $500 must be in writing in order to be 

 enforceable. But that contract is enforceable — in fact, and 

 similar contracts are enforced every business day in the 

 year on both the stock exchange and produce exchange. 

 What enforces them is not law, but the public opinion of 

 tliat exchange and no man who tried to squeal on such a 

 contract could do business for very long. 



In the same way the success of this law is .dependant on 

 the support which the fruit growers are willing to put back 

 of it. It is up to you a great deal more than it is up to us. 

 If the fruit growers of Massachusetts decided that this law 

 is no good and that they don't want it and that they wont 

 conform to it. they can make it look like a lead nickel in a 

 very short time, and if that is your sober opinion — that the 

 law is no good— the thing to do is to repeal it and repeal it 

 at once, but if you decide that the law is going to be a 



