The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-27
MAY MARKET
OWN PRODUCE
High Cost of Living is Due, Says
State Grange, at Seattle Meet
ing, to the Middlemen.
SELAH MAN DELEGATE
FROM YAKIMA COUNTY
COOPERATIVE Society Which Shall
Bring Changers Into More d.
rect Touch With Market is
Planned.

THE gh cost of living in Seattle
and in the state of Washington
which has aroused so much indigna-
ton and with just cause" said s. M.
Mckee of the Selah at meeting of
the state grange in Seattle Monday
lis not due to the profits of the farm
er nor to the scarcity of production
but to the commission men and it is
up to us to find some means to get
our produce into the hands of the
consumer"
Mr.. Mckee was delegate from Yak
ina county.
The meeting was one to which del
egates were appointed at the annual
meeting at Pullman in June and had
for purpose the formation of a CO.
operative association which shall bring
about closer relations between pro-
ducer and consumer.
Poor Mans Organization.
At meeting of the state organiza =
ton held at Pullman June I, the mat
ter of the small recompense that the
fa. mer receives for his investment and
labor, in comparison with the amount
paid by the consumer for the result
at great length and each Pomona OF
county grange was authorized to send
delegate to Seattle today for the
purpose of forming tentative plans
for the organization of a cooperative
assoc alton that would correct such
existing conditions.
In accordance with this request, L
c. Getsinger, fiscal agent of the Equity
Cooperative Company, was granted
half an hour in which to address the
gathering on the plans of the organ
iZation which he represents, and his
address started heated argument
VIII. lasted mare than an hour Ac-
cording to Getsinger's plan, each
share of stock in the company costs
$100- To this many members of the
grange objected, asserting that the
grange is a poor mans organization
and that the cost per share was toe
great for the poor farmer. Others
objected to the bonus of 10 per cent
cash and 10 per cent stock which
goes to. the three promoters of the as
ISOLATION from each 500. This would
was cited, give to the three mer
$1,000,000, the concern being incor-
porated for $1,000 900.
Meeting Enthusiastic.
The meeting was very enthusiastic
and late this afternoon the officia
delegates were still in executive SEES
sion and discussing plans for the for
nation of the proposed association.
The resolution adopted at the meet
ing at Pullman in June was to the
effect that the purpose of the meet
ing today is to bring the patrons o.
husbandry of the state together in the
channels of trade, that they may en-
Joy the benefits and profits that right
selling and to form cooperative as
ISOLATION and Incorporate under the
laws of the state, with the articles o
incorporation of such a liberal char
acter that the association may do {
general business of benefit to tn,
Washington
G. B. kegley. master of the State
Grange of Washington, presided owe
the gathering, and in opening the
meeting said that to his knowledge
the question which was to be discuss
ed was one that had been agltatinl
the state Grange for the past eigh
teen years, or ever since he had beer
associated w tn the organization, anC
impressed the gathering with the ne
ce@sstty of working out a plan tina
would produce results.