Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-02
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As the agents Of the A. B. Howe Shuttle Machine
saw 6t in their reply 10 a communication from the
Grover q Baker Agent, in the Union and American
OF the 26th have their remarks gene raj, pur-
pose to examine that remarkable document:
ssThe statement ia a communication from the Gro
yer Baker agent in this city, that we are misrep
resenting and humbugging the people in regard to
the Howe Machine pronounce unqnalihedly
false" This then is your answer. A positive deni-
alto the whole charge. Now We propose to bring
the facts bear upon this case and let the public
decide whether they are sufficient sustain the
charge not By your own admission you say that
Elias Howe, Jr-, has more TO do with the A B.
Howe Machine, (there really being no such machine
as the " Howe" machine,) than he has with any
other Shuttle Machine. Tell US tnen-tell this COM
N 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 equivalent to telling an untruth
Suppressing the of A. B. Howe, who is the real
owner and using that Of Elias Howe ,Jr.. in connec-
ton with the Howe Machine, is the same as saying
that Elias Howe, Jr., is the proprietor. Now, we
submit to the public if tn is the real impression
Thus the agents of the A B. Howe Machine are con-
victed en- their own admission. Is the charge of
humbuggry and Misrepresentation well foundedS
We Will answer this by asking few questions:
as long thereafter you could say that you had
the origin al Howe Machine and that were allpay
ing tribute your
Why is your advertisement, which appears still
in the Patriot, headed sswho invented the Sew
ng. Machine-E. Howe, Jr., Original inventor and
pattentee, established in 1s45?''
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 Sewing Machine, % informing the people what
Machiae should dol
Very Kind to be sure. Why is all this, unless to
presume upon the credulity of the public which is
deception, and 70 overlap the whole listen the
following: ave respectfully submit that our pa
irons are the best judges OF the merits of Ma
chimes. II any of them are dissatisfied they
turn the Machines get their money !" lea wing
to be inferred that their patrons all satisfied
not they can return the Machines and get their uo-
ney freely nd without hesitation delay. Can au-
dacty and presumption go further' Again, we quote
fr,m the record: ''The Howe Machine is well
known, is" mark the language, manufactured by
A. b. Howe, of N. Y, brother Of Elias Howe, Jr.
the original inventor of Sewing Machines. We have
asserted otherwise. :" Well there was no use
of it. The question a to who makes the Howe Ma
chine has been involved wholly unm portant.
But it does appear now that the Howe Machine is
made by A. b. Howe, that the A. B. Howe Ma
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 advertise nents here have been the same as
used by A. B. Howe in New York" Here then is our
excuse. Listen A. B. Howe is a brother of Elias
Howe, Jr., the original admitting it for argumenD
inventor of Sewi Machines. Therefore, A. b.
Howe had right to make Machine and use his
brothers. name TO sell it, because my is Howe
and your name is Howe, an HOWE am / to sell my
Machines unless use your name, for it is better
than any other Shuttle Machine A. B. Howe used
deception TO introduce his Machin In N. Y. there
fore his agents here justified in doing the same
thing. What code of ethics have we heref Truly it
''couId only emenate from the source whence it
came"
There is rule of evidence universal as law it.
self, ''false in one, false in aII' Now We propose
to apply this TO the following ''The Howe Machines
have been awarded the premium at every State
and County Fair, where they have been exhibited. -
They exhib tied the State Fair her last FALL
and at the County Fair in Franklin Did they take
the premium? No. viii the gentlemen be so kind
to inform where they took premium.
where there any other Machines in competition
If the A B. Howe Machine hadany merits at all owe
any other, and the manner it has been introduced
here is ficient to prove this Machine would not
say word. But KNOWN :, we (and intend
this community shall know it too) 10, that it is an
inferior Machine, would be doing injustice to
feelings in justice to the nIerest repre-
SENT open disregard Of all that is honorab lie
fair and honest in trade, were remain silent.
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