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we can ask is that the cooperative bills shall have a fair chance with 

 the other bills, and be registered as a claim to be paid when possible. 

 Those who can pay their other bills can pay their cooperative bills. I 

 can easily respect men who do not believe in cooperation, and do not 

 care whether it goes on or not, but those who desire it, but depend on 

 getting its benefits while their neighbors pay the bills, I do not respect; 

 nobody does. I respectfully commend this aspect of cooperation to the 

 serious consideration of this convention; I can declare as an expert, 

 that it is the one feature which now most needs attention; at the same 

 time I must not omit to add that there is also a great number — quite 

 sufficient to carry on the work, if they are got together — of as straight- 

 out, square-dealing, pay-as-you-go cooperators as one could wish to see. 

 It is they who have carried cooperation in California to its present 

 state. I am satisfied that they will continue and will succeed. 



Mr. Berwick: May I ask Mr. Adams a question? Do you propose 

 to do anything at all with the green fruits coming here? 



Mr. Adams: Why, the Directors of the Exchange started out with 

 the idea that they represented the fruit growers of the State of California 

 in all departments of the fruit business. It has been stated over and 

 over and over again in all parts of the State, and an address and an 

 official record will be made upon that now. Yes, sir; we expect to do 

 everything — or the Directors will. I have no idea that I shall be called 

 upon again to act with the Exchange. The Directors will be changed, 

 but the present policy of management is this: That we propose to 

 thoroughly organize the green fruit business, and the raisin business, 

 and the nut* business, and the dried fruit business just as rapidly as the 

 fruit growers of the State will give us the money to do it with. I don't 

 suppose they propose to go on and pay the expenses out of their own 

 pockets. 



Mr. Berwick: May I ask another question? As I understand the 

 discussion of this convention, the great thing required by us in shipping 

 green fruits is some functionary who shall undertake the duty of what 

 I may call a train dispatcher; that is, one to prevent the different mar- 

 kets from being over-stocked; one to designate where it is best to send 

 carloads of certain fruits to. Does the* State Exchange propose to 

 undertake that duty? 



Mr. Adams: Certainly, certainly. I have not occupied the attention 

 of the convention with the details of operation of this Exchange. But 

 there is no doubt whatever that if Mr. Buck was manager, or if Mr. 

 Weinstock was manager, or if any one was manager who was familiar 

 with the needs of the situation, he would look on it in that way. There 

 is no other way by which the growers could be protected. There is no 

 question as to what they would do in that line, and no doubt that they 

 would do precisely as Mr. Berwick has indicated. Whoever was manager 

 would get there just the same. There should be a man in Sacramento 

 doing the work that Mr. Buck has to do, and doing whatever other work 

 is necessary. But in my judgment it is not wise to take up the time of the 

 convention in discussing details of this character. I take it to be the 

 part of wisdom to organize ourselves, to supply that organization with 

 proper working machinery, to select the men in whom we have to trust 

 to manage the organization, and to rely upon them for the handling of 

 all these details. They will attend to them. 



