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season yet have done together. Mark 
you, I speak of oranges; not grapefruit 
and oranges, or lemons and oranges. That 
is about all Spain grows. There is a 
district in Spain in which practically 
nothing but sour oranges are grown. 
They send it to the canny Scotch, and 
the canny Scotch have waxed rich 
making it up into marmalade. 
In the first place, they supply their own 
country, and just as soon as you touch 
an European country, you touch a fruit¬ 
consuming people. They supply their 
own country, the French market, they 
supply Germany, Belgium, Holland, 
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Den¬ 
mark—just a few shipments—they sup¬ 
ply England the bulk of what they use; 
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. 
Now, then, in the -orchards of Spain 
there is not, with one exception, I might 
say, there is not a single packing house. 
There is not a house, hardly, that people 
live in, in the orchards. The people live 
in towns; I might go back into the reason 
■ for that, but I will not. In those towns 
you find the packing houses, and they are 
owned and controlled by foreigners; by 
people who represent the English people, 
the French buyers, Dutch buyers, German 
buyers. Before I left there early in Octo¬ 
ber, the handling of that crop had all 
been arranged for; every detail, even to 
the buying of the boxes and paper, and 
the arrangements had been made at the 
other end of the line. 
It is not going to be an easy thing, on 
the spur of the moment, for them to 
switch off. 
The marketing season in Spain is di¬ 
vided into two sections; they quit after 
the Christmas trade. The bulk of the 
crop north of Valencia goes before 
Christmas. There is danger from frost, 
and the fruit matures earlier than south 
of Valencia. The marketing of the 
Spanish crops exactly covers our own. 
The whole Spanish district lies north of 
the north boundary of Georgia. 
Mr. Bond: I won’t talk more than 
three minutes. I want to throw a bou¬ 
quet at our chairman ; he should be in 
Washington in Champ Clark’s place. I 
mean it; that is no sarcasm. 
Now, I would advise everybody in this 
audience who is interested in the tariff 
question, to get yesterday’s Times-Union. 
They have an editorial on the situation, 
quoting from the Grower and from Sen¬ 
ator Bryan. 
I would not undertake to contradict any 
statement our chairman has made. There 
is no question about its being the truth. 
Two years ago I came from Panama, 
as I did this year. It was the latter part 
of March or the first of April I was in 
Kingston. The steamer stopped there 
and they loaded 500 boxes of oranges to 
go to New York. I was there this year 
and could get plenty of oranges. Anybody 
could go down there now and ship them 
to New York, but they are poor oranges; 
no comparison to our Floriida orange. 
The quality alone of those oranges will 
stop competition with our product. 
Now, I repeat what I said in Tampa, 
and I think some people will give me some 
credit for a little common sense. I do 
not consider myself a fool in the busi¬ 
ness world. I have paid every debt I 
