. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITiv. pasty's Clfkvti}onq>l}ts J The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. THE HONET-PRODUCERS' LEAGUE AND COMB-HONET GUARANTEE. As to the League, and the exceedingly important matter presented on page 259, I am not nearly ready to say all I think about it. On one particular point I can say what I think. Don't, please don't, raise the guarantee higher than a thousand dollars. The public have more sense than you give them credit for, brethren. They have been dazed and bored, a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITiv. pasty's Clfkvti}onq>l}ts J The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. THE HONET-PRODUCERS' LEAGUE AND COMB-HONET GUARANTEE. As to the League, and the exceedingly important matter presented on page 259, I am not nearly ready to say all I think about it. On one particular point I can say what I think. Don't, please don't, raise the guarantee higher than a thousand dollars. The public have more sense than you give them credit for, brethren. They have been dazed and bored, and fairly forced, into a safe and sane conclusion bv the myriad offers in the press of SoO, and $500, and SIOOO, and $10,000— big money for something and everything and nothing—great sums for solving little puzzles so childishly simple that one could hardly help solving them if he tried. The safe refuge of conclusion has beeo reached that business does not consist in giving away money, and that all such offers are deceptive—pure bluff it may be—prearranged it may be—at the very least with some invisible string attached to them. All folks with an atom of sense incline to pay no more heed to ihenr than they do to the fat pocket-book that lies so temptingly on the walk April Fool's Day. To illustrate what I mean, let me ask this ques- tion: Why not offer a »iiWo« dollars? You reply. That would defeat itself; because each man would laugh and say, "These people haven't got a million dollars, and they are making no arrangements to raise ; Well, just as little should we be making any arrangements to- raise the $10,000; and (oiks would conclude so. The child's, " Bet you five thousand million dollars," does not secure any assurance. And when the quack doctor offers $10,000 for a case which his remedy will not cure, few people hustle to get the money—in spite of the fact that they k)ww that there are multitudes of incurable cases in the world. Let's
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