20 PROCEEDINGS OF THIRTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS CONVENTION. 



that is. for you people to make your voice heard with no uncertain 

 sound as to what your wishes are. 



I had a lesson some years ago at Stanford University. I was one 

 who spent a week there some years ago, a week to fruit growers they 

 gave us when the university opened. I was a tenderfoot about college 

 yells— I had been in the backwoods most all my life. I Avas sitting in 

 the Encina dining hall and I was electrified by the shock of hearing 

 something like this: "We-want-our-pudding!" Do you know what 

 happened? What do you think happened? The boys got their pud- 

 ding. Now. when you want parcels post badly enough to halloa together : 

 " We-want-a-parcels-post, ' ' you will get it. We meet here, have been 

 doing so for twenty-five years past — I have— and I recall in Los Angeles 

 in one of the earlier conventions I moved some resolution. Mr. A. R. 

 Sprague. whom many of you know, said: "What is the use of passing 

 resolutions, anyhow.' They don't amount to anything." I recall I 

 replied in some lines of Lowell. I said: "My friends, you can't put 

 less value on these things than I do. I will give you a quotation from 

 Lowell. It is in the Yankee dialect, something like this : 



" 'So they meet in convention and sri t up hooraws. 



An' tramp through the mud for the good of the cause : 

 An' think that they're kinder fullin' the prophecies. 

 Wen they're only just changin' the holders of offices. 

 Where A sot before B's now comf'ably seated. 

 One humbug's victorious and t'others defeated : 

 Each honorable doughface gits just wat he axes, 

 An' the peepil their annooal sof sawder an' taxes.' " 



Now, gentlemen. I am here to-day to tell you this. We can't often get 

 a chance to do anything at Washington. Most of you know Mr. John S. 

 Dore of Fresno. He is a good, sterling man. He writes me he is willing 

 to go to Washington, he and his wife, and settle down there for the 

 session and fight for parcels post for you. if you will just pay their 

 railway fares ; he will do the rest. I want you to think it over. If you 

 want something done, now is the chance to do it. I have been trying to 

 do all I can. I have a letter in my pocket now from the Postmaster 

 General's secretary saying when Mr. Hitchcock gets through his week's 

 work on his report he will take up parcels post, but he will take it up 

 a great deal more vigorously if all you people shout. If you want an 

 easy way of regulating transportation there is no better way than by 

 demanding the parcels post. Now. I don't mean to stay here— I have 

 got another engagement — through this whole convention ; that is why 

 I came on this morning, through the kind permission of the authorities 

 but I will appoint Mr. Charles Kodgers. Mr. A. X. Judd. and Mr. B. E. 

 Hutchinson of Fresno to receive any contributions you want to give to 

 send Mr. Dore on to Washington. If you think it is worth while, do 

 so ; I know how the fruit growers are usually : when it comes to paying 

 down their cash they are not exceeding rapid; but I understand in 

 Watsonville you growers are all bankers as well as farmers, and so 

 I appeal to you to help yourselves. Heaven helps those that help 

 themselves. Now get it, and hustle and help yourselves. I thank you. 

 (Applause.) 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. I thank Mr. Berwick very much for his 

 talk. We will now adjourn until afternoon. 

 A recess was here taken until 1.30 o'clock p. m. 



