492  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { AnoctobevPim.m' 
the  welfare  of  the  Association.  In  considering  the  objects  and  work  of  the  new 
National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  he  said  in  part  : 
"  Speaking  of  this  cry  of  too  many  pharmacists  and  too  many  pharmaceutical 
colleges  brings  me  to  the  subject  of  special  interest  to  this  Association,  namely, 
the  evidently  approaching  era  of  too  many  associations,  and  hence  necessarily 
of  too  many  divided  interests  and  divided  efforts  for  betterment  in  our  calling. 
"  I  think  it  but  just  and  proper  to  enter  a  protest  at  this  point  against  some 
statements  which  have  found  their  way  into  the  pharmaceutical  and  daily  press, 
insinuating  that  this  Association  is  not  of  or  for  the  retail  pharmacist,  but  is 
rather  controlled  by  and  exists  for  the  benefit  of  the  college  professor  and  the 
large  manufacturer.  Such  statements  are  as  unjust  as  they  are  uncalled-for, 
and  are  certainly  untrue.  No  one  class  of  our  members  is  benefited  more  by 
virtue  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  than  another.  We  are  all 
benefited  as  we  should  be  if  the  purposes  of  the  Association  and  its  mission  are 
fulfilled. 
"The  representation  of  retailers,  manufacturers  and  teachers  in  one  associa- 
tion was  and  is  necessary  to  produce  the  beneficent  effects  and  benefits  which 
all  must  admit  have  already  been  produced  by  the  influence  of  this  Association, 
and  the  annual  fraternal  meetings  of  its  members  in  the  past. 
"The  beneficent  results  already  attained  will  even  be  greater  in  the  future,  if 
we  only  make  the  proper  efforts  in  our  united  strength  to  bring  the  influence 
of  the  Association  to  bear  on  the  amelioration,  if  not  the  extermination,  of 
existing  evils,  whilst  a  divided  association  and  clannishness  might  fail  to  pro- 
duce this  result. 
"The  very  good  work  the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  has  ac- 
complished could  in  all  probability  have  been  accomplished  as  effectually  by 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  provided  the  right  men  had  been 
found  to  take  the  work  in  hand,  and  if  the  membership  had  been  increased  to 
make  it  a  still  more  representative  body  of  American  pharmacists.  Had  the  men 
who  now  dominate,  lead  and  push  the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists 
been  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  taken  hold  of 
our  commercial  section  as  they  have  that  of  the  National  Association  of  Retail 
Druggists,  the  same  results,  I  feel  sure,  would  have  been  achieved. 
"  Confronting  the  facts  as  they  are,  and  not  as  they  might  have  been,  how- 
ever, the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  appears  as  a  splendid  and 
deserved  success.  As  a  sister  organization,  I  heartily  congratulate  it  upon  its 
apparently  certain  successful  mission  of  squelching  the  cutter.  My  highly 
esteemed  and  beloved  predecessor  in  office,  H.  M.  Whitney,  proved  to  be,  as  he 
has  on  many  previous  occasions,  a  soothsayer  and  leader  whose  foresight  was 
accurate  and  trustworthy,  for  in  his  address  last  year,  as  you  will  all  remember, 
he  dwelled  more  strongly  than  on  any  other  topic  upon  the  crying  necessity  ot 
encouraging  the  commercial  section  and  making  the  work  of  that  section  the 
prime  object  of  our  concern  and  work. 
"  But,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  no  matter  how  essential  it  may  be  to  foster  and 
encourage  the  commercial  branch  of  our  membership  and  to  strive  with  our 
new  sister  association  to  accomplish  a  reform  and  improvement  in  our  busi- 
ness and  financial  relations,  there  is  ample  room  left  for  other  important  aims. 
There  is  more  in  pharmacy  and  in  the  aims  of  our  Association  by  many  and 
many  an  acre  than  the  restoration  of  old  prices.    Pharmacy  is  as  much  a 
