202 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 



this is still true in many places in the small exchanges, 

 the conditions are such that the producing men have 

 become broader in their views and are able to put more 

 confidence in the men who handle or administrate their 

 business for them. This is as absolutely necessary in 

 the fruit industry as it is in any line of manufacturing 

 or mercantile business. The old idea of forming a local 

 exchange and employing one of their own members to 

 officiate or administrate the business and pay him a 

 salary which will probably exceed anything made by a 

 great many of the members off of their fruit, led, of 

 course, to many critical remarks and lack of confidence 

 on the part of their manager. This is only petty jealousy 

 and constitutes no valid reason why the exchange need 

 be looked down upon. 



Another difficulty set forth in some places is of the 

 monopolistic tendencies of the fruit organizations, claim- 

 ing that they are in a class covered by the anti-trust or 

 Sherman Law. This has gone so far that, in one or two 

 states, the members of certain exchanges have carried the 

 business into the Supreme Court in an attempt to nul- 

 lify certain obligations or contracts entered into by 

 members of the exchange, on the grounds of its opposi- 

 tion to the Sherman Trust Law. This has been given 

 at various times as a valid objection to fruit organiza- 

 tions. It has been pretty definitely established, however, 

 that a market for any fruit product as perishable as 

 most of that grown in the United States, can never be 

 monopolized because of the perishability of the goods 

 handled. 



