The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-21
1.-The we'll known Seattle commission

the well known Seattle commission
merchants.
Mr.. Powles is mott Inclined at pres
ent to express his full opinion of this
new measure as he has been unable
as yet to secure complete copy of
the law as passed by the state legis-
lature, although he is acquainted
with the measure as it was presented
to the legislature for consideration.
He says that as soon as ne secures
a copy of the law, he will consult
his attorney at length regarding it,
and will be disposed to comply with
every feature of it that will be posi-
BILE without materially increasing ex-
penses and working too great hard
ship upon his clients.
THE measure which compels
houses doing business to furnish a
$4,000 bond can be easily complied
with by the larger commission houses
but it will work an especial hard
ship on the smaller houses-which
is unquestionably a serious feature
because the number of these houses
and the business they transact makes
them an important factor in the reg
ulation and control of the commission
business.
THE effort made by means of this
measure to prevent the combinations
in the matter of receipts of prices is
entirely unnecessary and uncalled for
as such a thing has never been at
tempted on the part of the commits
sion houses, and probably never
would be. Prices rise and fall in
proportion to the supply and demand
the weather and other mitigating
circumstances.
For the most part the law Oper-
ates to increase the operating ex-
penses of the commission men, and
this must of necessity work hard
ship principally upon the grower, as
it will compel the manager to in
crease the percentage of the COM
mission and make it more expensive
for the grower to market his fruit
or produce. ANY commission man
can acknowledge truthfully that the
average expenses of doing business
today are between and 9 per cent,
and when a measure passed by the
state tends to increase these expenses
it is not working for the interest of
the fruit growers whose interests
should be primarily consulted. 1t
works an injustice both to the grow
err and to the broker and accomp-
fishes good for none.
''The regulation of consignments
is simple matter, considering the
present organized condition of the
fruit growers. 1t places the regu-
latiOn strictly under their own con-
troll, and is entirely up to them so
there needs to be little legislation
in this respect.
THE grower should learn that the
houses which do business on bust
ness principles are the ones to pat
ronize, and those houses which do
not are the ones to studiously avoid.
1t is bad business for the grower to
make his consignment to the COM
mission merchant without looking in
to the standing and business methods
of that particular house The money
loaner never loans money on repres-
entations made to him through the
mails, but carefully looks into the
matter before doing business. The
fruit grower often foolishly makes
his consignment to house in answer
to a mere solicitation by letter with.
out looking into the standing of the
house at all. This is not doing bus
mess in a business like way and often
as a consequences results disastroUsly
for the grower. The Ranch.