The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-10-01
|fW SYSTEM
| FOR SUCCESS
Il Stewart, of Jensen, Urges
NGrowers to JOIN Exchange
ND PRESENT ABUSES
.,s, an Array of Arguments That
uuid be Needed by Ever, Grower
and Success will be Assured

Jensen, Fla, September y, 1909.
ste Pineapple Growers;
iA,r hearing what was said at Fort
Nm, August nth, have you not woke
,ntbe fact that the old systems are
wong? Are you not convinced that
u, are better ways than the old
= and that we must change our sys-
ia II we are going to do anything,
IA will we do it? Will we do it now
b. prepared when our next crop is
IN or will we wait until the crop is
4 a,ht. when it will be too late, and
!, vii be forced to market it under
\ Sdsystem? Will you be any better
Lsird than you are now? Will you
I IN better condition to inaugurate
Ma systems then, than you are?
I'm you have any more money with
|Irh to do things than you have?
I'M YOU be as we'll off under the old
Tstta, as you would under the new?
\ pu see any way to improve the old
|Etsm! Have you not lived under it
I Years and find it no better now than
4 sas years ago? Can you not see
|asslf going down under it? DO you
kg Of any business that can stand in
kss modern times without organiza-
fn'
Every article that you have to buy,
VA to the meek and lowly peanut, is
|rniled. You do not put the price
1.-THE articles you buy, neither do you
y It On the things you sell, Is that
MALL one sided business? and would
n not be better satisfied if you could
i price on your fruit instead of
Wing what you can get?
Re6ve had organizations of differ
Varieties but have never made any
|yress, simply because they had no
kndstOn and instead of them helping
y, bad to help them. What we want
10 srganizatiOn with a foundation
sdhe California Fruit Growers sys-
lit. There are no "skin" games
it, il there were, California would
We found them long ago, And you
] know what is in our old system.
Z tannOt expect to accomplish Won
tsna minute, the new system does
u have to be remOdeed or rebuilt, it
handed to US by a generous hand in a
meet form. All we have to do is to
klt, and If it only helps little, it
sdO more for us than the old system
! dOre this year. Have you seen
gthlng lately that looks any better
70 this? If you have, please come
'Sand with it, we need it and you
mot get the benefit of such good
lag by yourself.
Now to you with the ifs and the butts;
you remain in the old system what
J you get? You will get a small
fuon Of the benefits a.ined by the
v system in the marketing end of
business, because We will divide
y you, and you will make our gains
mat much less, by not being one of
lou will feel the effect of the in
4sed prices if there he any created
lAe new system, but wnere will you
and what will you feel when the
system goes to pay for supplies?
w you say you cannot market pine.
YES under the new system, because
are too perishah,e. Have you
y ~ Will pineapple perish any
ssl under the new sy ,1m than they
@aer the old system? Do you not
a y rotten pineapple quite often?
mere not some that you never have
y from at all? VIII il take any
S y 10 get pineapple from the field
lae markets under the new system
q u takes under The old?
wat aid the railroad people tell you
J! The way they handled Cuban
= Can you make up twenty car
aAd get that service and those rates
y The old system? Can the new
'sm make conditions any worse? Is
I not room for improvement?
i new system is the most frater-
BUSINESS proposition you ever heard
position.
Y East Coast Fruit and Vegetable
y ssrs Associations constitution has
Jug 70 DO with the marketing of its
icy and the handling of its pro-
= =. what happened when that as
y sso0 was organized? Did not some
y brokers' who have been handling
I'M iIull 30 all the way from Jack
y" Nc 70 Miami to get into it? What
aaey will say, they are interested
':eI freight rates and want to help
y ~ mem. Well, that much is good
J, Wy a Is not all, the broker wishes to
~ \ Jus influence in the direction of
y. y rates to keep your minds d.
s. from the new system, because
-. That the new system leaves
n nave you seen any brokers
n. Me meetings where the new
= was being expounded? Have
en any commission men there?
I've no business there and they
~ enough to know it. Who pays
4 .svsilng expenses when they are
Aser you taking your valuable