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on the principle of "live and let live," and the principle of 

 general helpfulness. When you are asking all of these ques- 

 tions, and talking about these combinations, you must always 

 remember that the other fellow can do the same thing. Now. 

 I read in an agricultural paper the other day that certain 

 trusts were doing certain things with the farmer, and if 

 they kept on doing that the farmer would do certain things, 

 and then look out! The editor thought that this was an evil, 

 but in order to correct that evil the farmer should do some- 

 thing else that was evil; he should go at him in the same :..;;< 

 way. Now that was a mistake. If the thing was wrong in 

 the other fellow, it was wrong in the farmer, and it was the V : '^^ 

 wrong principle. Everybody in the world has to live. The ;-" 

 man who belongs to a union wears clothes, and the man who 

 doesn't belong ought to wear clothes if he doesn't, and he 

 ought to have an opportunity to get the clothes, and to get 

 them honestly, and fairly, and boldly, and stand up and look 

 every other man in the face, as a man should do, and he 

 should not be disgraced and held up to public ridicule because . 

 he is not this or that. He ought to be honored because he is 

 a man, and has within him a living soul, and because there is 

 something more of him than flesh or blood — because of his > . 

 manhood, and ability — or because of her womanhood, you 

 should apply it to women. Now we don't want to forget 

 this; we are going to remember it. Now I am in St. joe ^ ' :; 

 dealing in supplies, and if you drive me out of keeping sup- - U: 

 plies I will go to keeping bees and get in competition with 

 you, and give you a rattling time, and then you would want ' . 

 to form a combination and drive me out of the honey-busi- 

 ness, and I would go to farming. I would be certain to go 

 to doing something, because I cannot die right away, and I \ : :■> 

 don't want to, and I would have to do something, and T : Vv;. 

 am just as apt to be in comoetition with you as I am in doiuf . , -^ - 

 the thing that I am doing now. Now this is the way all tliis 

 looks to me. I wanted to say this several times, but I did not . ; . " - 

 have a chance to-day. 



EXHIBITING HONEY AT FAIRS. 



A Member— -"Would it not be beneficial to the bee-industry -" ' 



to make honey exhibits at fairs?" 



Mr. Hutchinson — It is one form of advertising. We '!■"-■ 



show the public how the bees look, and when they go up to 

 the hives and see the bees storing honey you have a chance 

 to show them the honey and show them where it comes from 

 and show them the glass bottles, and you may get people to li 



eatmg honey that have never seen it before. It is one form of 'l 



advertismg that is of benefit to us— to bee-keepers at large. ■•-;::".':: 



Mr. Niver— At the Pan-American they had a very elab- - y.'':^:.:': 7.'- 



orate show of honey, and immediately after that I went to 

 sellmg honey at Niagara Falls, and I found that had educated 

 those people there to the desirability of eating extracted 

 honey, and I had a very good time selling it there. Now I 

 have thought if the National would take hold of the St. Louis 

 Fair m a practical way, and work it strong, it would pay n^c : • 





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