. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (0 K OLDEST BEE PAPER -'^ IN AMERICA ?.. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 3, 1883. No. 40. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, Abuse is Not Argument. Mr. Hamet, the publisher of VApi- culteur, in Paris, is opposed to movable frame hives. Fifteen years ago he wrote that the main quality of such hives was to be pulled to pieces like a pack of puppets. The honey extractor was, to him, a useless toy. He has continued since to fight against every new idea or improvement, and when we were in Paris, he ridiculed every thing
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (0 K OLDEST BEE PAPER -'^ IN AMERICA ?.. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 3, 1883. No. 40. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, Abuse is Not Argument. Mr. Hamet, the publisher of VApi- culteur, in Paris, is opposed to movable frame hives. Fifteen years ago he wrote that the main quality of such hives was to be pulled to pieces like a pack of puppets. The honey extractor was, to him, a useless toy. He has continued since to fight against every new idea or improvement, and when we were in Paris, he ridiculed every thing in progressive apiculture which we use in America. Mr. Hamet asserts that foul brood is generated hy the use of frame hives. Mr. Chas. Dadant, of Hamilton, 111., who has for years been writing for the European bee papers, has taken the ground that foul brood was propagated by contagion. Last spring Mr. Bertrand, editor of D''Apiculteur, published a lithograph of Mr. Dadant, and was censured by Mr. Hamet for so doing ; at the same time Mr. D. was assailed in the most vindictive manner. In the VApiculteur for August, Mr. Hamet renews the attack, more ferocious than ever, without the least provocation or ex- cuse. We exceedingly regret to see that Mr. Hamet has seen fit to use mali- cious personal abuse instead of argu- ment. He also asserts that Mr. Dadant has been published as a humbug and swindler in Gleanings, and calls him anything but a gentleman. Mr. Root justly denies that he had ever thought of publishing Mr. Dadant as a swindler. To us who have known Mr. Dadant for 10 to 20 years as one of the most gentlemanly, honest and pro- gressive apiarists of America, these insults are very annoying and perfectly unjustifiable. It is a very poor way for any one to resort to malignity instead of using argument, but the use of such is more detrimental to the calumniator, than to the person maligned. We should have taken no notice of this, were it not that Mr. Hamet as- sails him as
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