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. 
