I go FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



mercial views, must and will command the confidence and 

 respect of the American people. 



" To promote these ends we invoke aid and sympathy of 

 all commercial and agricultural organizations. 



"The rapidity and facility of transportation make all 

 markets accessible, all products obtainable; the products of a. 

 single farm, dairy or garden may be distributed over and con- 

 sumed in more than half the states in the Union. 



" Every grower, producer, or shipper may reach the Na- 

 tional League through his commission merchant, and have his 

 views for the general welfare carefully considered. 



"Farmers' clubs, fruit and vegetable growers' associa- 

 tions, shippers of butter and other dairy products, and all 

 commercial organizations, will find us ready to unite with 

 them in defeating unjust laws, in collecting and disseminating 

 information, in improving business methods, in resisting dis- 

 criminations and exactions, and in demanding and enforcing 

 responsibility and integrity. 



" We claim no section; we are non-partisan and non-sec- 

 tarian. We guarantee our sympathy and support to every 

 enterprise that may increase the rewards of labor or add to 

 the comfort or happiness of the home. 



"The following resolutions were adopted at the Second 

 Annual Convention in Cincinnati, January lo, 1894: 



" ' 1st. — That the membership of this National League is 

 composed of reputable commission merchants in each city 

 where a Branch League has been established, and that they 

 are all worthy of the confidence of any and all shippers; that 

 while one of the objects for the establishment of this League 

 is to further the interests of its members in an increase of 

 business, yet another and very important object to the shipper 

 is to place within his reach such houses as he will at all times 

 feel safe in shipping to, and at the same time to protect him 

 against the frauds who sail under the head of commission 

 merchants, who, with their smooth tongues, flaming letter 

 heads, and fabulous quotations, induce shipments, for which 

 they never expect to make any returns, or by some other 

 trickery cheat the shipper out of his just returns. 



