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lion. Hven the I'resident felt perfectly 

 at liberty to call a uietTiher to order if he 

 wandered from the subject. In fact, I 

 doubt if a convention was ever held in 

 which the .>^peakers were kept so strictly 

 to the topic under consideration. Per- 

 haps if a ira/ President of a real conven- 

 tion should attempt to be so strict he 

 would jjive offense, but this was "just in 

 fun, you know." The members i^ave 

 tlieir views in just that same free wav. 

 They said exactly what they thouyht, no 

 matter whom it hit it "was all in fun 

 you know." That is the way everybody 

 felt, yet the information brought out was 

 really reliable and valuable; in fact, 

 those in attendance asserted that this im- 

 promptu affair surpassed the rej^ular con- 

 vention in bringing out practical truths 

 and facts. Honestly, it was /our o'clock 

 in the morning before the "Senators," 

 as they now call themselves, decided to 

 adjourn and go to bed for a little nap. I 

 nay say in conclusion, that this little 

 partv has really organized it.self into the 

 "Senate of h'ederal Parliament of Cana- 

 dian Bee Keepers I" There are an even 

 dozen members, and they e.xpect to each 

 year hold an evening session tliat may 

 extend into a iiiorniiio; se.ssion ere the 

 hour of adjournment arrives. 



WHAT ORC.VNIZ.XTIO.X M.W .\CCOMPLI.SH 



— HOW niscfssioNs arp: .ST.VRTED. 

 Mr. Doolittle, in the la,st Review, gave 

 a very graphic description of what organ- 

 ization might do in the way of controlling 

 prices; and in this issue Mr. Taylor very 

 clearly points out how it mav cheapen the 

 cost of production. Right in this line I 

 may say that the Cosmopolitan for Janu- 

 ary has a very interesting and instructive 

 article by Charles R. Flint upon "Great 

 Problems in Organization. " In years 

 gone by, organization in commercial en- 

 terprises was almost unknown. Occa- 

 sionally there was the old-fashioned part- 

 nership, which was a combination of the 

 capital and abilities of individuals. 

 Following this came the business corpo- 



ration, consisting of the aggreation of 

 many capitals. Let me quote a few lines: 



"This is the highest type of business 

 organization. The bringing together of 

 these small capitals; the employment of 

 large bodies of tiieu with highly differen- 

 tiated duties; the control and direction of 

 these by boards of directors, and supre- 

 mac}- over all of the officers of the cor- 

 poration-its president and manager — 

 have resulted in making possible the per- 

 formance by private corporations of work 

 which was impossible to have been done 

 even by the strongest government 150 



years ago The result was 



the creation of many corporations for 

 like purposes, but in strong antagonism 

 and with bitter competition between 

 them. Rut this competition could lower 

 prices only slightly, unle.ss it went so far 

 as to ruin one or the other of the compet- 

 itors. Tl\e ])robleni of low prices was to 

 be solved by the economies of larger or- 

 ganizations Further con- 

 solidation Ijecame necessary, and then 

 came into existence the so-called 'com- 

 binations,' or move frequently and quite 



improperly called 'trusts.' 



The trouble with the enemies of the high- 

 er economic organization is that they live 

 in the past and are sadly ignorant of the 



present Plenty and low 



prices were to come with the organization 

 of iudu.strv and capital, until to day. 

 thanks to this fact, more than to any 

 other, the workman gets more for his 

 money and more money for his work 

 than ever before. And yet the yellow 

 journals tell him to rebel against the in- 

 evitable social and economic order, and 

 thus stand in the way of his own advance- 

 ment. The destruction of large corpo- 

 rate capitals would compel a return to the 

 era of lower wages and higher prices." 



There is much more that might be 

 quoted, but lack of spice forbids. Those 

 who are specially interested are referred 

 to the Cosmopolitan. Evidently, there 

 are two sides to this question. Organi- 

 zation has done much good. The good 

 that it has done has greatlv over-balan- 

 ced the evil. Organization has greatly 

 improved many things and greatly low- 

 ered prices, but I think there will be 

 found only a few who will deny that the 

 formation of a "Trust" is often followed 

 by a stiffening of prices. Perhaps, how- 

 ever, this raise in prices is needed. Trusts 

 are not often absolute monopolies, but 



