. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT Page S3. WILLIAM L. WAGXER, OF G. M. H. W AGNER & SONS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL APPLE SHIPPERS' ASSOCIATION shipper grades fur his market and dis- tributes his products into safe hands, willing to take a market as created by his ciuality. The National League is the saving grace to the shipper, who is wise enough to realize its manifold benefits, and the elevation of business methods under its development is their hope for the future. And now, gentlemen, a word as to our own organization. We meet here as twenty-eight units of th
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT Page S3. WILLIAM L. WAGXER, OF G. M. H. W AGNER & SONS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL APPLE SHIPPERS' ASSOCIATION shipper grades fur his market and dis- tributes his products into safe hands, willing to take a market as created by his ciuality. The National League is the saving grace to the shipper, who is wise enough to realize its manifold benefits, and the elevation of business methods under its development is their hope for the future. And now, gentlemen, a word as to our own organization. We meet here as twenty-eight units of this big concrete National League, and each one of the twenty-eight look to us for guidance and plans. Our membership must be classed and guarded as a business asset of con- sequence, and the value of the asset depends upon us. •' We are passing through a critical time. We see ahead of us big interests that are striving to take awaj- our business. To every thoughtful, thinking member it is appar- ent what these menaces are. As an organization we have spent years in the interest of the shipper. Now let us turn toward ourselves and do missionary work that will count and that will bring about that contentment and satisfaction to our- selves which our long vigils and untiring efforts entitle us. Consolidation and close co-operation are the routes that will enable us to assert our inherent rights. Nineteen years or organization finds us j-et, to a certain degree, in swaddling clothes, especially as far as our indi- vidual interests are concerned. That great problems are confronting us is amply manifested by the large attendance at our conventions. We are not here for pleasure, but we come inspired with a purpose. Let us start the twentieth year with better and stronger co-operation, more consultation between members and sister leagues, a closer affiliation with shipping associations. These are only suggestions for further thought. You have established the ground work in the formatio
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