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prentlomen, whose magnificent dis- 

 tanoes necessitate is co-operation and 

 united worlc and effort. We can not. 

 as small producers, ship our product 

 to the market that needs it in lesi 

 than car-load lots to the same ad- 

 vantajre that the extensive shipper can 

 do. and we need an intelligent dis- 

 tribution of our proiiuct. whicli can 

 only be accomplished by one of two 

 ways, either by (Jovernment manage- 

 nuMit. they doing this business for us, 

 or by co-operation amongst ourselves 

 directly. I am in hopes that this spirit 

 of organization, co-operation and com- 

 bination that is now talking possession 

 of the business world will eventually 

 reach where I think it ought to reach 

 —the point where the Government will 

 take control of, and manage it to the 

 interest of all the people, and not to 

 the few who are in the combine. This 

 may perhaps be combatted by some, 

 but the student of business relations 

 and conditions will be forced, sooner 

 or later, to come to this conclusion, 

 that somehow these affairs in this 

 vast country must come under some 

 gi-and. genei-al agency and be manip- 

 ulated in that way; and this thought 

 has l)een forced upon me more and 

 more of late, and I recall one of the 

 last public speeches, I believe it was 

 made by our lamented President Mc- 

 Kinley. in which he said that nations 

 are coming more closely together in 

 these days that old methods are prac- 

 tically out of date. A few years ago 

 it was one nation against another: 

 there was no brotherly feeling, there 

 was no co-operation; but today's trade 

 relations are such that what destroys 

 or kills one nation is bound to affect 

 every other nation, and trade wjth it. 

 Now, the principle applies everywhere, 

 and these influences are becoming so 

 general, and so far-reaching, that to- 

 day there must be co-operation not 

 only of the individuals in a commun- 

 ity, not only among the people of the 

 State, but state with state, and nation 



with nation. And when we will so 

 co-operate there will be such a demand 

 for every product as we little dream 

 of. 1 have contended for years that 

 if there were ten times the honey pro- 

 duced that we now have there would 

 be a better market than there is today. 

 (Jo with me into Iowa, Indiana, Illi- 

 nois. Kansas, Nebraska — countries 

 where corn and hogs and cattle are 

 the principal products— and there the 

 buyer will come right to your door 

 and buy your hogs and your corn; or, 

 if you choose to load some of them on 

 the wagon and go to town, you will 

 find a market for every day in the 

 week; you can dispose of them any 

 time you haul them to market. How 

 is it wiu.. our honej" product? You all 

 know that you have to get out on the 

 market; liiere is no real, established 

 market for honey. I think a few of 

 us have pretty nearly established a 

 market in our communities, but I am 

 speaking in a general sense. Now, our 

 President has outlined for us some of 

 these thoughts, that we are going to 

 keep more bees; we are going to pro- 

 duce more honey; we are going to or- 

 ganize and co-operate; and the com- 

 munity that produces any one line of 

 produce is the community that has a 

 market for that product. That is true 

 of any line, it doesn't make any dif- 

 ference what it is; but the community 

 that has just a little bit of any one 

 thing is the community that has no 

 real, settled market for that product. 

 So we are going to keep more bees, 

 and keep them more in a co-operative 

 way. I would produce extracted 

 honey; another will produce comb 

 honey; and we will follow the thought 

 of specialism more and more depend- 

 ent, and as we become more and more 

 dependent upon one another we are 

 compelled to organize and co-operate. 

 I am heartily in sympathy with almost 

 if not every thought that has been put 

 before you in the address of our Presi- 

 dent." 



