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V O L . X L V I I . N o . 26. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, December 26,1908. SINGL
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J
UST at this time, when good cheer pervades the land, when hearts are filled with melody and
homes with joyousness, 1 cannot resist the opportunity of saying a word to my good friends in
the music trade.
For many long years we have been traveling the business road together and in the jour-
ney some of us have encountered many obstacles, some of which at times have seemed almost unsur-
mountable, but still we have climbed over them, only to be met in some cases with greater and more
perplexing conditions ahead.
Nevertheless, we have moved on, and as the old world has spun down the ringing grooves of
change, some of us have struck our true gait and have held closely to it, and have been successful in
accomplishing sought-for ends. Right has not always been on the scaffold nor wrong forever on the
throne.
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With the Christmas bells ringing in my ears, 1 desire to extend to my friends and readers in
every land, Hearty Christmas Greetings!
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May the Yuletide logs burn brightly for all, and may the New Year bring with it brighter and
better things!
May the trade animosity and the bitter heartburnings which have been identified with the past,
be forgotten, and may we all turn to the New Year with our hearts full of resolve to do things—to
do things that are good and right, just and true.
To those who have stood by me, year in and year out, who have aided me by patronage, by
friendly words and expressions of encouragement, I owe much, for they are the men who have made it
possible for me to create this modest trade newspaper enterprise.
It has been their stimulating encouragement which has helped to make a paper which has en-
deavored at all times to stand for something, and which has sought under all conditions to command
the respect of readers.
With their help, I have been able to place a brick now and then in the trade structure, and throw
a little mortar around it, and may 1909 witness a broadening of the music trade arch, and may all men
who are under its shelter, receive the fullest measure of return for their intellectual and financial
outlay.
And now, good-by to 1908, with all its sunlight and shadows, with all its disappointments and
shattered ambitions.
Let us turn to the brighter page, shoulder to shoulder, steady and strong,
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For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that we can do.
E D W A R D LYMAN BILL.