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standardize all these products that can be easily stored and shipped and 
distributed to the people of the nation and to the people of the world. (Ap- 
plause.) 
President Goodman: Mr. Henricksen, how do you get your stuff t© 
market from Cuba? 
Mr. Henricksen: We are about in the same position as you are. In 
discussing this question I would rather start at Porto Rico — that belongs 
more to the United States. Many years ago I remember the steamship 
lines manipulated our freight movements scandalously. The problem was 
to get to the market at all. We made complaint after complaint on the 
way our oranges and pineapples were put in to the markets and the con- 
ditions under which we were laboring. We appealed to the authorities to 
be heard and to have the steamship companies give us a little better 
service; little came of our efforts. After a while we formed a fruit growers’ 
association and sent a man to New York to represent us there. That had 
the same effect of nearly breaking us all up. We now know it to be a fact 
that the commission men deliberately tried to break up that association. 
They did not succeed and the association is thriving today, and out of its 
efforts we are all getting better prices and able to distribute our fruit better. 
In Cuba we have not gotten so far. We formed an association several 
years ago, and it was not a success. We did what we could, but the idea 
was a little too new and we were hardly prosperous. We have now formed 
another association and the two are working together somewhat in harmony 
and things are getting into a little better shape; but now here is the pe- 
culiar thing. Porto Rico has one association; Cuba has one; Florida has 
one, a very strong one — and the three of them do not work entirely in 
harmony. Shipments from these several sections ought to be distributed 
in harmony, — with system. 
Now if these people could get together you can readily understand what 
it would mean. We have yet a long way to travel, as you all here have; 
but, we need — this doctrine of more unity. There is no use in one as- 
sociation working this way and hoping to adjust business all at once. 
I want to say one more word, for I feel that it may be in place here. 
It all comes to that same thing in the work of this Society, and with the 
state associations. There should be more unity. All the state associations 
should feel that this is the central organization, and that it should be high 
enough so that we can all look up to it with a feeling that this one can 
raise us up and help us. I feel that we ought to do something to unify 
all the fruit-growing interests of America. (Applause.) 
President Goodman: Mr. Wheeler, will you please give us your views 
of this marketing business? The market with you is very fine, and on© 
phase we would like to discuss is as to the possibility of disposing of a large 
part of our fruit right at home. 
Mr. Wheeler: In Massachusetts we are particularly well situated, with 
not only fine fruit but a fine market— that is what most of you are looking 
for. But possibly you can not compel it to come when you seek it. We 
