The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-28

Tn making these decisions I have
 honestly tried to be fair and just to
 all and have allowed no consideration
 or personal friendship to sway my
 judgment. Naturally, l have made enc
 mics by my decision. Many of tn csc l
 deeply regret. It is one the sad mis-
 fortunes connected with this rebate
 work. Some of these parties are malx- ing this the basis of vigorous efforts to discredit my administration and to force a change. l could easily have avoided this had I adopted less strict standard. I would then, however, have
 failed to secure the approval of my own conscience and would have prop erly also lost the respect of the over- whelming majority of whoelase gro
 cers and their statesmen, who expected and demanded that these regates should
 be handled with vigor and justice"
 In spite of his own statement Mr.
 yanHoose has the unvarnished nerve to
 say that they make no attempt to regu-
 late and control prices.
 Page 35: Extract from subject of mall
 ing list"
 "That the incoming administration be
 instructed to continue the preparation or
 mailing list, showing the name of every
 manufacturer in all lines. who is willing
 to Individually adopt the four cardinal
 principles set forth in our soap mailing IL,
 office to enter his 'individual name on
 said list That these respective mailing
 lists be forwarded as Information at
 freouent intervals to every wholesale gro-
 yer in the territory identified with this
 association, and also where desirable to
 other wholesale grocers throughout the
 entire country"
 Report on Sugar.
 Page 46: "Report of Committee on Sugar.:
 'Your sugar committee begs leave to submit the following report: It Is our opinion that the wholesale grocers are en- titled to a profit on sugar of not less than 25 cents per 100 pounds. and that we recommend that the president of the
 Southern Wholesale Grocers association suggest to the various sugar refineries
 doing business in the south to individ- ually' allow the wholesale grocers the
 said profit of 20 cents per 100 pounds in the following manner: First, that lo cents per 100 be deducted from the face of the invoice; that the remaining 15 | cents per 100 pounds be paid quarterly to ! the president of the Southern Wholesale l Grocers' association as an individual,
 who will in turn distribute same to the l various purchasers of the sugar as their l interests might appear
 I 'It is further suggested that any one | | der % cents per 100 pounds advance over
 and above the American Sugar Refining | company, New York or New Orleans. net 1 cash price, plus freight to their local 1 jobbing points shall be considered as hav- 1 ing violated his wishes and shall forfeit 1 the said 15 cents per 100 pounds to the l Southern Wholesale Grocers' association. l It is understood that in passing the net | New York or New Orleans price on sugar | that the 1 per cent discount shall not l be considered
 1 This clearly shows that they not only l try to regulate and control the profit but 1 they go so far as to make it a violation l if the grocer handles the product of an l individual refner under 9 cents per 100 l pounds advance over and above the 1 American Sugar Refinery company S 1 price. It surprises me that they didn't 1 take one step more and ask the manu- | facturer to run their entire business for 1 them. Why it would be easy at the rate ! they are going to force the manufacturer 1 to not only manufacture his product. ere
 ate a demand, actually go out and sell l the goods. maintain long profit for the l jobber. even collect the profit and guar 1 antee t>em against losses and then all | the ideal .'individual'' wholesale grocer ] would have to do would be to clip his 1 coupons Wouldn't 1t be glorious if the l wholesale grocery business could be car l ried on in this mannerl I really cannot 1 say whether the sugar refiners, individ- l ually accepted these so-called 'individ- l ual' suggestions. but l do say without 1 hesitation that do not believe they have 1 or ever will, because they are undoubt- edly well informed, capable men with l brains.
 | I wish to call the attention of MT. Van 1 Hoose and the citizens of this community 1 to the fact that in my previous letter was very careful to segregate the South l ern Wholesale Grocers association matter ! of regulating and maintaining prices from l that of the local dealers, although we