Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-04
ANTS TO
/ SAVE THE
INDUSTRY
Grower Thinks Organization Is
]. only Thing That viii Permit
/, Total destruction of the Busi.


ZION that you are in favor OF
.rganization of the growers. Te
lind this is our only hope, Why?
usa with the financial panic tha
and Mr.. Bruin doing his mis-
day ard night we have no other
.ce to look to.
have talked with a number oi
growers of this section concern.
no situation, and they are all OF
same opinion, but say It can't
None. Now the question arises
. They say that farmers were
known to stick together. ]
Il asree with them there, but there
been thousands of new achieve
u wroght in the nineteenth Gen.
~ that we're never known to the
Y 4 before. Why not another?
growers. are we a low Hitter
i. elass OF beings? The outcasts
he human family that have no
-;lect. no ability, no achievements
accomplish, no financial interests
E look after Eve have the latter,
a Mr.. Shorts are looking after
for us), are we below the
.Iufaoturers, the miners, the lum-
ben, the cotton growers and even
/. hoboes and tramps?
guess you would say yes, and I
IN too, in one sense OF the word.
n are not organized and they are.
.llemen, we are worse than the
.ts that roam the cities of our
|.htry. Why? Because they rob
&her class and we rob each other.
Ipu ask the question. How is that?
He first place, wet let a small or
.|zatlon OF spectators contract
r iell our hops for about cost OF
I'nctlon without our consent or
Ming anything about II. And
n harvest they come around with
\ reports Of heavy crops and the
a prices that hops will be instead
|foming to us like business moa
&Ild and ask our price. They
10 the price themselves. and We,
onest to ourselves and fellow
y Fers, begin to feed the market
have kept feeding them down TO
<nts.
pv much longer are you going
sed them. and why are you feed
+ them? ! will answer the ques-
why. II is for lack of conf
b on your part. You are afraid
one else will turn loose. and
get scared and turn loose your
#op growers, can't you have
\ |pgh stability about you 10 say,
others do as they may. mean
stand for my rights and for my
Nnelal welfare? II all will do this.
not get scared OF someone else.
will have Mr.. Bruin inqulring
p we win take pretty soon, and
N sure We would not put the
Ee below production as they are
be.
gentlemen, will you figure with
Tor a while. We have something
100000 bales OF hops in Ore
THIS year. The shorts would
r you believe there are 10000
year, but what is It they
aldnt have You believe that would
r a tendency to lower the mar
We will say we have 100000
p that will average 200 pounds
bale, that will equal 10000, 900
'nds Of hops-2O.OOO,00O pounds.
cents, cost of production Is
'OV'OOO, Now the bears say thai
I Will be from 4 to 6 cents by
nfst Of the year, and If we don't
something TO check them they
vow let us see how much the
'"ers OF Oregon will lose at c
~ehty million pounds at 6 cents
A N,2O0,0O0; cost OF produc-
N'4OO,OOO Loss, 100000.
y I cents per. pound, 100000;
10 growers 1000.
l0w long will hop growers of Or
|" 'asI al this, and is there any
. encouraging for us in the fu-
would say no, as long as
's' bears set the price. You take
mop Industry out OF Oregon, or
'V''oOO out of circulation, and
.,s Is there another crop to take
pace and put that amount in cir
-1on- There Is no other. and the
'hing for ns to do Is to organ
eAo set the price instead Of Mr..
" setting it for us.
= the other hand. say we get 10
% per bound Vhg- h~f,org ~ a. .