. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 30, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 249 cheapest possible meat. We know that. We also know that the Meat Trust of the United States is a gang of high-handed and abomin- able robbers—robbers that rob those who raise the cattle on the one hand, and rob those who eat the meat on the other hand—robbers that fix prices—and fix them not on reason, nor right, nor natural laws, but on ;i^ as impudent as the Czar's. Most other trusts differ only in degree. By the way, there isn't any Meat Trust. We know that. And we are ready, and waiting; to hear
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 30, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 249 cheapest possible meat. We know that. We also know that the Meat Trust of the United States is a gang of high-handed and abomin- able robbers—robbers that rob those who raise the cattle on the one hand, and rob those who eat the meat on the other hand—robbers that fix prices—and fix them not on reason, nor right, nor natural laws, but on ;i^ as impudent as the Czar's. Most other trusts differ only in degree. By the way, there isn't any Meat Trust. We know that. And we are ready, and waiting; to hear, that there isn't any trust among bee-manufacturers. It is one of the commonest characteristics of this particular evil genus to deny their own existence. When the dog howls all night it means, in dog language, " There are no such things as ; We must be getting almost ready now to put things together. We were startled awhile ago to leara that those who wrote to different firms for prices on lots of bee-supplies got in reply identical figures I Hcce Rex ! There she am ! No more to be said. No place for argu- ment. No place for anything but the searching question, What are we going to do about it? What—if anything? Sad that a "decent regard for the opinions of mankind " did not keep our purveyors from this step—but it did not, it seems. Sad that it did not occur to them : We serve a select body of men; we should therefore be a little select in our methods. We did think that there were men among them that were willing to stand in the blaze of publicity as model men. We thought that some of them shrank from appearances of evil—shrank from them personally, and, more than that, shrank from them in a Christian sort of way—seeing we are taught to avoid the appearance of evil. That we were mistaken in this came to us as a sorrow and a blow. They are willing, it seems, for some prospective profits (when profits were already good) to take a position
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