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o;ear, all the uncapped brood will 

 be thrown from the combs. 



Do we not want a machine as 

 first described, and one that works 

 so perfectly that we can carry the 

 combs to the sides of the reel very 

 gently and have them remain there 

 until the machine stops, whether 

 the reel revolves fifteen or one hun- 

 dred and fifty times per minute 

 and have the motion governed en- 

 tirely by the crank and brake? 

 Let us hear from others on this 

 subject. 

 Wyoming, N. F., May 20, 1884. 



EDITORIAL. 

 It is not strange that the majority 

 receive with distrust and suspicion 

 the sayings of those who claim to 

 be working for the interest and 

 welfare of others. It is painfully 

 true that, as a rule, the great lever 

 with which the business world is 

 moved is self-interest. Indeed, 

 the great majority that goes to 

 make up the business world is 

 largely controlled by self-interest, 

 and blind to all else, so much so 

 that thousands of the weaker and 

 more timid ones are trampled 

 under foot and crushed in the 

 grand rush for popularity, self-ag- 

 grandizement or wealth. It has 

 been clearly and practically dem- 

 onstrated through the history of 

 the ages and nations of the past 

 and present, that the masses are 

 a class of toiling producers, sul)- 

 ject to the dictations of the few 

 ■who are more shrewd and capable 



than they, and it is also true that 

 labor is and alwa3^s has been, the 

 slave of that capricious and tyran- 

 nical master, capital. 



Turn which way j'ou will, you 

 must admit that almost every 

 effort to organize and conduct as- 

 sociations for the benefit and pro- 

 tection of the laboring class or 

 producers has proven a failure, and 

 with nearly every struggle against 

 the wrongs of injustice and oppres- 

 sion comes the heart-sickening and 

 crushing defeat. The monopoly of 

 capital and power is one of the 

 greatest evils that ever cursed this 

 world. What have men not been 

 led to do in the shape of sin and 

 crime for the sake of grasping a 

 few golden dollars ! How many 

 men, who might have been a bless- 

 ing to humanity, have sacrificed 

 their manhood, aye, their very 

 souls to the greed for gain ! 



Just as soon as any new enter- 

 prise comes up that promises to 

 prove remunerative for some one, 

 these human land sharks hover 

 around and over it in schools, as 

 sea sharks follow the ships in order 

 that they may grasp whatever may 

 be unfortunate enough to fall into 

 their clutches. 



Only too frequentl}- we find such 

 parties playing the role of confi- 

 dential friends and benevolent 

 persons, when all they have a care 

 for is the "■ mighty dollar." Nor is 

 beekeeping free from this. The 

 time will yet come when all the 

 silent and open injustice and wrong 

 that have been done to father 

 Quinby, Rev. L. L. Langstroth 

 and others will come up in judg- 



