The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-17

with or dependent upon the industry
that in view of present conditions
such utterances were in effect little
short of criminal
Organize for Benefit.
After careful reflection the writer
sees no justification for expressing g
different opinion.
Whom the Gods seek to destroy
they first make mad" Please be ad-
vised that we are not mad, and we
are not going to get mad. We are
simply earnest in the conscientious
discharge of our duties IT we must
expose ourselves to the unwarranted,
unjustified and undignified personal
attacks os some in our efforts 60
bring order out of chaos, we offer
ourselves as willing sacrifice for
the betterment of conditions among
the thousands of good citizens of our
beautiful valley, who will, in spite
of all such handicaps, and in spite of
all the prejudice that can be engen-
dered by spiteful, selfish opposition,
in time array itself upon the side Of
logic, reason and right, each vieing
with the other In boosting, protecting
and popularizing the leading product
of our valley, the Associations Blue
~ Brands of fruit.
Gentlemen, you might just as well
try to sweep back the incoming tide
as to try to stop or destroy the as
ISOLATION. You cannot do it, Its
Foundation. purposes and principles
are fIndan entally correct and arc
bound to endure. You may succeed,
Though poisonous innuendos, mis-
statement of facts, and other various
ways known only to those who in
dulge in such practices. in eliminat-
ing individuals, the writer for in.
stance, which is aside from the ques-
ton and perfectly fmlnaterial to him;
but the Yakima Valley Fruit Grow
ers association will still continue the
largest factor in the fruit business of
the Pacific Northwest--the largest
factor making for the progress and
prosperity Of the Yakima valley long
after you and l have passed beyond.
We do not wish to engage in per-
eonalities. and ,wilE not permit our
selves to be 6ra WIN into an undigni-
fled controversy respecting details or
individuals. y.G G3
.s.efr,.s Analysis of Results. r.n
The analysis Of one of the gentle
mans many misstatements will suf-
flee as answer to all others.
He says that we sold upon the Chi
cago auction market "206S boxes Cot
cherries) for s1059.90, an average OF
b1N cents. Out of this deduct for
express charges $62o.40; for iceing
charges $40 for commission at Chi
cage 10 per cent. s105.99, and you
have coming back here from Chicago
$293.51. Out of this deduct boxes and
packing only 5000 so, and you already
are in the red $3.50. Say NOTHING
about warehouse. charges, Central Sci.
ling office charges, inspectors, etc. "
His statements are so grossly I'M
fair and misleading as to again justi-
fy repetition of the previous statement
at which he took umbrage.
The facts are. we sold no such cal
as he describes, misstatement numbe,
one.
We did sell four cars in Chicago and
one in Pittsburg, as follows:
1898 boxes gross $1068.15. Net ro
association. freight. ice and auction
all PAID, $0bS.o4.
2014 boxes gross S1607.1o. Net to
association, freight, ice and auction
all paid, sss1.4e.
1853 boxes gross 1119.05 Net tn
association. freight, ice and auction
all paid, s474.17
1880 boxes gross $1o2050. Net to
association. freight, ice and auction
all paid, s490.29.
226S boxes gross *1s22.25. Net to
association. freight, ice and auction
all paid. ss72.9s, the last mentioned
in Pittsburg
Numerous Measurements.
The complainant says we paid
$1,000 40 freight and ice, which is near
800 to over 5000 in excess of amount
actually paid upon any car to Chicago.
Misstatement number two. He says
we pay 10 per cent commission there,
instead we pay 2 per cent Misstate-
ment number three. He says we have
back from Chicago $293.51, instea d
we have s474.17, $490.29, $568.54,
$991.46 according to which car he is
trying to talk about. Misstatement
number four.
This is a fair sample of the reliahil-
ity of all information emanating from
sources having a selfish interest In
poisoning the public mind against CO.
operation among the fruit growers.
1t Is a well-known fact among all
Informed fruit men that the Column
bia basin sent to market this year
over $50 carloads of cherries and thai
all markets were badly glutted and
Over-stocked
The complainant knows as we'll as
we do that We never routed five cars
of cherries with the fixed purpose OF
selling them upon the Chicago auction
market
Shipped to Relieve Pressure.
He had no means of knowing the
inspection reports from that end or
other conditions that determined the
final place of sale any more than we
had of knowing the controlling rea-
sons for his refusal to accept cherries
from certain growers upon those same
dates Everyone knows that had We
not attempted to relieve the pressure
by transporting a portion of our crop
to more distant points, where at the
time there was reason to expect sat
tsfactory results, that tons of them
would have remained on the trees un-
picked. We insist that ii is better to
have triad and in soma small m Measure