The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-10-02
ORGANIZATION WAS THEME
Of PAULHAMUS' ADDRESS

extends over country six miles
square, and the organization did a
business this season of approximately
three-quarter of a million dollars.
There is just one way that such
results can be obtained and that is
by organization. Each attempt of the
individual to accomplish it has been
marked by failure This is day of
organization. I am a member of the
grange, and at the meetings much
time is spent and lost In discussing
the initiative and referendum, the
parcels post system and everything
about running the government. i be-
y the time would be better spent
discussing how best to conduct our
n business.
" I'VE must take care of the people
who are already here, and not devote
so much money and time in inducing
others to come. The railroads of this
vicinity are more interested in the
amount of apples consumed in Sc
attic, Spokane and other nearby mar
kets than they are in what is being
consumed along the line of the New
York Central. More time should be
devoted to meetings of this kind, and
in showing us how we can make a
success of our business.
Bouquet for Yakima Valley
"You raise the best apples, peaches
and pears in the world, but you mus,
make profit on them or you will
not make the business a success. We
were with our raspberries like you are
with your peaches. BY organization
we have multiplied the ACREAGE ana
tonnage and have increased the price
received by the grower.
1.-The railroads can be compelled to
give good service. l sued the North
ern Pacific railroad and got $4,000
for bad service, and that sum, in
stead of being distributed among the
members of the association, was used
as a nucleus for the cannsry fund,
hence we have named it the Northern
Pacific cannery, and the railroad COM
pany will ultimately learn that it was
one Of the best investments that ii
ever made.
Years ago we received for the fruit
we shipped one-third of the price ii
cost the consumer Now we are try
ing to act as grower, middleman and
Disadvantages of dealing with COM
mission men were referred to, but
that is a story by itself.
Suggestions We're made that grow
ers here might increase their sales
by putting up their peaches in cheap
| er packages.
The speaker told how the cannery
at Granger came to be started. Pie
served to him at the Granger hotel
was found to have been made of APP
pies canned and shipped in from Puy-
allup. What do you think of that
and that is an apple country?
Terse Suggestions
Yakima alfalfa growers were CIV
en- dig to the effect that they should
grow better alfalfa. Washington
makes but q per cent of the butter
she consumes. Feed the alfalfa here
F, to the dairy herds, and ship the but
| ter. Mere COWS and more diversified
| farming. Do not plant all the land
| to apples. The best asset for any
state is prosperous people. 1t is all
right to look after the spraying and
the Goblin moth, but remember, that
| you must sell at a profit or go out OF
|
depends upon the success of the man
of Yakima county. You may not
realize the full benefits of organiza-
ton until you get a good trimming.
There was sufficient food for re-
| Election in the remarks of the speak
| er to last his hearers for several
years, and at the conclusion he was
greeted with hearty applause.
DR.. Granville LOwther's Address
DR.. Granville Lowther was intro
duced, and spoke as follows:
The day of individualism is rapidly
passing away, and the day of organi-
cation has come. Talk as we Will
against combines, they are an evolu-
| ton of economic conditions; of ad-
vance civilization; and accomplish
| greater things than could be accom-
| plished by individuals working alone
With all the wrongs they have in
| flicted upon society, and are inflict-
| ing, they are as a well trained army
compared with a mob. The political
| fight to destroy combines is a delu-
sion. They have grown as a result OF
competition between individuals, as
armies grew from personal strifes. as
worlds have grown from the conflict
of the atoms.
1t is folly to fight the laws of COM
mercial gravitation. These laws lead
to organization, as unerringly as the
laws of physical gravitation leads to
world building. 1t is the law of the
"least resistance" the law of the
conservation of energy" and the
elimination of waste
There are thousands of men, who
belong to great corporations, who
preferred not to belong. They pre-
ferred to transact business, as they
had done in the past, individually, OF
with one or more members of the
same family as partners. But compe
tition, copelled them to com bine their
interests with others or be crushed
under that merciless wheel of the
Juggernaut.
If 1 were a fruit buyer, l would
belong to some large organization OF
buyers, where there were diversities
of talent and division of labor and
get the benefits of specialists in oar.
ticular lines. / would also want II
connection with afbar h1Iuara In.