Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-08-20
PROPOSED MARKETING
COMMISSION

commitment of a national marketing
commission, David Lubin, delegate
Of the United States to the Inter
national Institute of Agriculture,
spoke in part as follows:
Mr.. Lubin-1t will thus be seen
that the German Observation-Disclosures
is an entity, which has its beginning
in the township, then up to the
county. then it takes in a province
then the state, and then final! tne
National Landwirtschaftsrat
In accordance with law, eacn
farmer in a township assessed lo[
taxation has certain amount Vi 'na'
assessment set aside for the Lano-
wirtschaftsrat. The township mem
her then has vote for delegates TO
the chambers Of agriculture, and the
chambers of agriculture elect the
members of the Observation-Disclosures
in all. some ~ members for the Ger
man Empire 1t has its seat in Ber-
lin and usually holds its session
when the Reichstag meets. 1t is a
5aliberatiYe and consultative body
With advisory powers. The Reich
stag must submit to this institution
all pending laws directly or indirect
,v affecting agriculture. The Land
yirtscaftsrat tenders its opinion to
the Reichstag on all such measures
tbncn
the most careful attention from the
.eichstag, for they are influenced
by the will of the farmers from the
small township right up to the
county, the province, the state and
the nation. The other functions of
the Observation-Disclosures are the
supervision and direction 1t gives to
the economic distribution of the pro-
ducts of the farm.
Thus is may be seen at a glance
how effective such an organization
must be in the economic and political
history of the nation. The first and
most significant service rendered by
the Landwirtschaftrat is that it rem
ders trusts in food products an i'm
possibility.
Before the Landwirtschaftsrat was
established in the European coun-
tries they had food product trusts,
chicken trusts, potf trusts, egg
trusts, meat trusts, and butter trusts
as we have them here, not as sys-
tematzed as here, but then that was
years ago when they were not even
systematized here. And it can be
safely asserted that if there were no
Landwirtschaftrat institutions in the
European countries at the present
there would have been as many sys-
tematized trusts there now as here
But under the andwirtschaftsrat
system in the European countries
such thing as trust In food pro
ducts is substantially and practically
an impossibility.
From time to time spasmodic eff
forts are made to fight the trust In
the United States. Ordinarily the
American people pursue sane and ra
tional methods. They are noted FOL
employing the right means for the
attainment of certain ends, but il
the matter of trusts the American
people have not SO far employed ra
uonal means toward the given end
mere is a constant reiteration o.
taxing up irrelevant and ineffective
means toward the attainment of {
given end, toward the doing away
with the trust. 1t is a fortunate
tnlng that shoemakers and weaver!
are more rational; otherwise W.
would have irrational shoes and ir
rational cloth. We have thousand
OF schemes for fighting" trusts
and grand old standby" for talk
ing to the gallery, for making polit
lean capital, is to clench both hands
INTO fists and come down with boil
OF them simultaneously with pound
on the table, and with rigid, Sc
features, with flashing eyes, anC
"4ueIy extended mouth, yell out
by heavens, let us penaliz,
'hem'; all of which of course is non
sense, for the way to kill the trust
not to fight them at all; just sim
ply take the goods that the trus
ueals In and place them out of tn,
trusts reach, and then you have tn
nnish of the trust.
And this is just what the Land
"irtschaftsrat means. 1t mean
mat every European town has it
street markets, has It's cooperative
associations for distribution, has it
standardized packages, it's standard
'4ed packing, the regulated synchro
Hization of its products so that the
"ay be carried and delivered eco
noihlcally; it has the scientific us