. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 824 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec GBORGB W. YORK, . EdtloF. PTTBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, US Mlcbigaa St., . CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. (Bntered at the Poat-Offlce at Chlcafto as Second-Ciasa Vail-Matter. VoLfflVI. CHICA&O, ILL, DEC, 24, 1896, No. 52, EDITORIAL COMMENTS. A 'Very Merry Christmas is our heartiest wish to each aud every reader of the Americau Bee Journal at this happiest season of the whole year. We trust it may indeed be of you the merriest Christmas you have yet been per- mitt


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 824 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec GBORGB W. YORK, . EdtloF. PTTBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, US Mlcbigaa St., . CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. (Bntered at the Poat-Offlce at Chlcafto as Second-Ciasa Vail-Matter. VoLfflVI. CHICA&O, ILL, DEC, 24, 1896, No. 52, EDITORIAL COMMENTS. A 'Very Merry Christmas is our heartiest wish to each aud every reader of the Americau Bee Journal at this happiest season of the whole year. We trust it may indeed be of you the merriest Christmas you have yet been per- mitted to enjoy. Try to make some one else happy, too, and see how much more joyful it will then be for yourself. How true, " 'Tis more blessed to Rive than to ; Again we wish you all— A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS ! The Anialsraiuation Project.—Mr. Newman, the General Manager of the National Bee-Keepers' Union, sent us the following in reply to Dr. Mason's answer to his criticism of the New Constitution : In reply to Dr. Mason's article in the American Bee Jour- nal, pages 770-2, I desire to say that being invited to " make suggestions " or criticise the Constitution offered as a basis of amalgamation, I candidly pointed out some of its imperfec- tions, without allusion to any person, supposing that was what was being desired— but by the rejoinder of Dr. Mason, it seems that an unpleasant personal controversy is invited. As I have no relish for such, and shall not indulge in it, I silently pass all that has been said—"Measures, not Men," is my motto. While I have no desire to dictate anything, I certainly have the right to eritlcisc such an important matter as sub- mitting an imperfect Constitution to vote. The members of the Union have the right to expect this of me, and I shall not disappoint them. In my criticism I have nothing to change, though I might add more to it—the points I made are mainly incontrovertible. It is nonsense to s


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