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AMERICAN POMOL,OGICAL SOCIETY 
There is a “limit of tolerance” with our coins. A gold dollar after a 
period of wear, weighs less than it did when it came out of the mint, but 
take it to the United States Treasury, and the government will redeem it. 
There is a “limit of tolerance,” or ought to be, in every act that the human 
race performs. You can never attain perfection in this world; at least I can 
not. 
Fruit Packers Dread Standard. 
Let me tell you my own experience as an illustration. When the hearing 
on the bill took place before the congressional committee, I went to the cold 
storage house and brought to Washington a barrel of apples I had packed 
at my home for export. I knew there were no apples in the barrel less 
than two and one-half inches, because I had packed them very carefully 
under the then proposed provisions of the Sulzer bill; I, therefore, poured 
those apples out on the table before the committee with absolute confidence. 
But a member of congress from the state of Washington cut a hole in a 
piece of cardboard two and one-half inches in diameter, and proceeded to put 
thirty-seven of my apples through the hole! I was mortified, chagrined, 
ashamed; because I had done my very best to comply with the provisions 
of the Sulzer bill, and had failed. 
I tell you that the reason some men have been against the provisions 
of this law is, because they are afraid of the standard — they can not live to it. 
(Applause.) They did not dare to do it anywhere this season. No honest man 
is going to put a peck of cider apples into a No. 1 barrel, and market the fruit 
as standard, and no dishonest man is fool enough to risk it with the penalty 
of the law staring him in the face. 
Here is another point. Every effort put forth in this cause has been for 
the purpose of raising the standard of the fruit business of establishing a 
constructive forward-looking policy. If anyone wants to amend the Sulzer 
law by making it better, he can go as far as he likes, and I will help him 
all I can. But, gentlemen, when the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association and 
the American Pomological Society and every other growers’ and dealers 51 
organization in the country, every one mind you, without a single exception 
so far as I know, are satisfied to try out this law, let no one call on us to 
destroy it while it is yet untried and the best we have and all we can get. 
Do not attack the only law you have without suggesting something better. 
(Applause.) Do not damn untried, the only piece of constructive legislation 
the fruit growers have been able to secure in a lifetime. 
Box People Seek Legislation. 
And now let me submit another evidence of the high character of the 
grade established by the Sulzer law. The box apple people (and I always feel 
like taking off my hat to them) have insisted that they would have no imperfect 
fruit in the package. We have not yet reached that point. We are trying 
to do it — and some day we will perhaps. But we are not going to do it by 
criticizing the only legislation we have and the only intelligent effort we have 
ever made to do it. The box apple people did not want the Sulzer law — not be- 
cause they opposed a standard grade for apples, but because we tried to 
