Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-29
IcoEMU SICATED.1

As the agents OF the A. B. Howe Shuttle Machine
saw 1T in their reply to a communication from the
Grover & Baker A gent, in the Union and American
OF the 10Th, to have their remarks general, We pur
pose to examine that remarkable document:
ssThe statemeDtia a communication from the Gro
yer L Baker agent in this city, that are misrep-
resenting and humbugging the people in regard to
the Howe Machne,' We pronounce unqualinedly
false" This then is your answer. positive deni-
alto the whole charge. Now We propose to bring
tue bear upon this case, and let the public
decide whether they are suD;ent to sustain the
charge or BY your own admission you say that
Elias Howe, Jr. has more TO do with the A B.
Howe Machine, (there really being such machine
as the " Howe" machne,) than he has with any
other shuttle Machine. Tell US tDen-tell this COM
IN nifty why the name OF A. b. Howe has been sup
pressed and that of Elias Howe, Jr., continually
used. And here we remark, that the suppressing Of
material fact is equya lent 70 telling an untruth
SGppressing the OF A. B. Howe, who is the real
owner and using that Of Elias Howe Jr. in connec-
ton with Howe Machine, is the same saying
that Elias Howe, Jr. is the proprietor. Now, we
the public if ia is is notthe real impression
Thus the agents OF the A. B. Howe Machine con-
vicfed en- their own admission Is the charge Of
humbuggry and misrepresentation well founded
We will this by asking few questions:
as long thereafter Is you could say that you had
the original Howe Machine and that were allpay-
ing tribute TO your
Why IS your advertisement, which appears still
in the Patriot, headed ''who invented the Sew
ing,Machne-E. Howe, Jr., origina, inventor and
patlentee, established in 1s45S''
Why in the same notice do you say that the A.
B. Howe Machine is superior TO all others, which you
know false insert those twenty articles (sto-
len from Ladd webster) styled what constitutes
a good wing Machine, - informing the people what
a Machine should dor
Very kind to be Why Is all this, unless to
presume upon the credulity Of the public which is
deception and TO overlap the whole listen to the
following &s'We respectfully submit tuat pa
irons the best Judges OF the merits of our Ma
chimes. II any OF them dissatis fed they re-
the Machines aud get their money! leaving it
inferred that tn patrons ali satisfied, If
not they return the Machines aud get their
ney freely md without hesitation or delay Can au-
dacity and presumption 20 further' Again, We quote
fr, IN the record: '.Thc Howe Machine Is we'll
known, is - mark the language, manufactured by
\. b. Howe, Of N. Y, brother Of Elias Howe, Jr,
the original inventor of Sewing Machines. We have
ne yer asserted Otherwise - Well there was no use
of it, The question as to who makes the Howe Ma
chine has never been involved wholly unimportant.
But it does appear that the Howe Machine is
made by A. b Howe, or that the a. b. Howe AIa-
chine is made by A. b. Howe. In other words to be
more plain A. b Howe is making his own Machine.
How strangel Important information Again,
sour advertisements here have been the same as
used by A b. Howe in New York" Here then Is our
ex;usc. Listen A. b. Howe is a brother of Elias
Howe, Jr., the original (admtting it for argument)
inventor of Sewi. Machines. Therefore A. b.
Howe had right to make a Machine and use his
brothers. name TO sell it, because my name is Howe
| and your name is Howe, and HOWE am / to sell my
Machines unless l use your name, for it is better
| than any other Shuttle Machine A. B. Howe useC
deception to introduce his Mac hine N Y. there
fore his agents here justified in doing the sam,
| thing. What code OF ethics have hereS Truly
| 'could oaly emenate from the source whence
| came.''
| There is a rule OF evidence universal as law il
SELF 'ifaIse in one, false in alI'' Now We propOs
to apply this the following ''The Howe Machine
have been awarded the premium at every Stat
| and County Fair, where they have been exhibited
they were exhb tied at the STATE Fair here last Fal
and at the County Fair in Franklin in. Did they tax
the premiumr No. VIII the gentlemen be kin
as to inform us where they ever took premium
where there was any other Machines in compettior
1.-THE A b. Howe Machine hadany merits at all owe
any other and the manner II has been introduce
here is sa incient prove this Machine would Nc
| say word. But KNOWN 2, as (and We inten
this community shall know IL too) 10, that it is a
inferior Machine, would b. doing injustice
cur own feelings in justice the Interest repr,
sent and open disregard of all that is honor alb h
fair and honest in trade, were We to remain silent.
feb2s-2t PARSONS co.