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than that apple is. (Applause.) You can bite into that apple 

 and get something that is worth eating, it won't be punk, and 

 Irom what I can learn in reading the market reports during 

 the last year or two, the market is beginning to go below the 

 surface and getting in deeper than the skin. They have the 

 sun to give color, that is true. But somehow there is that 

 which is drawn from these old rocky hillsides, a sweetness 

 from the breast of mother earth, and placed in the fruits 

 which Nature hands to man. And I rejoice in the climate, 

 soil and fruit, and proximity to markets. 



I was down in New York the other day, and I looked 

 upon the — well, what word shall I use, I can't find a word big 

 enough to describe those two railroad stations, the New York 

 Central being built, and the great Pennsylvania already fin- 

 ished. And then when I read that the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 has built that great station at enormous expense, has tunneled 

 luider the rivers, dug through the very rocks, in order that 

 she might serve what? The New York of to-day? Yes, but 

 she has far more room than she needs to serve New York of 

 to-day, great as New York is to-day, but to serve twenty 

 millions that they say New York will have in but a few years, 

 according to the tabulated statements drawn upon the propor- 

 tion of each year's growth to the size of the city, showing all 

 the faith those magnificent builders for the future have in this 

 most wonderful city in this country or any other. And here 

 we are, I say, right between Boston and New York, surround- 

 ed by cities great and small, packed in until they are touching 

 elbows on either side, and the population growing by metes 

 and bounds. They talk about high prices being due to Repub- 

 lican administration or Democratic administration, or through 

 Socialists, or whatever it may be. High prices are simply 

 because we are not producing food in quantities to warrant 

 low prices, we are not producing fruit enough, we are not 

 producing poultry enough, we are not producing enough 

 butter, we are not producing enough meat. They tell us the 

 reason why pork is so high is because pigs are scarce, it is 

 simply a question of supply and demand. There is an unlim- 



