The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-14


production from .'Uuderstrapper" as
he chooses to call himself, and of
course that must be his name as he
does not sign any other and is evil
IDENTITY ashamed to come out and let
people know who is the author of his
silly, dishwater trash.
AS usual he gives us about a two
column article of slang and resorts to
his usual whining style OF calling
names, such as "%you're another" &C.,
&c. The only noticeable difference
between this last effort of his and
those which have proceeded it from
the same source is, that when refer
ring to himself he has omitted to call
the attention of the public to ''us
Machine men" but in all other re-
spects the article is in the same sing
song style, in one breath accidentally
telling the truth and in the next
intentionally telling a falsehood, and
the poor simpleton hasn't sense
enough to see that he is making a
fool of himself; or perhaps that
should be qualified a little by saying
that he is only demonstrating what
nature has done for him. He says
'they are moi changing the cutter
bar to their Binder but are using the
same bar, with improvements, that
they have used IS years. Thus he
admits that they are still using the
old, ancient wooden bar long ago
abandoned by every company who
knows anything about building good
machines, and in the same breath
tells you they have built binders IS
years, which everybody knows is
false. He tells us that 'last year
they put out a Reel something like
the Buckeye Reel and it was a fail
ure." 1t is true that finding their
Reel worthless in heavy lodged grain
and knowing the Buckeye, which he
has been telling you is an experiment
had the best Reel in the world, they
tried to pattern after it, but like everv-
thing else they ever did, they only
half built it, making a cheap, worth
less thing and of course, like their
wooden cutter bar it was a ~failure:
and now not having brains enough to
invent a new one and being too
penurious to build a good like
the Buckeye Reel, which costs money,
they have fallen back on the old
concern, which they themselves &C
knowledged was worthless, and are
now, in their usual deceitful style,
telling farmers that "they have got
the best Reel in the world" But
farmers won't be mlsled by their
silly twaddle and false statements and
consequently are buying Buckeye
Binders. He says Cormick's
folks changed everyone of those
Reels at a cost of thousands of dol
lars" l can refer you to at least one
man in Michigan, who bought the
McCormick binder last year, or rather
he lent some money to McC ormick's
agent and was obliged to take a
Mccormick Binder in order to get
his pay, and he says it was the poor
est investment he ever made in his
life, and his Reel has not been
changed; at least it hadn't a short
time ago, and the farmer says he is
afraid if they do put on the other
Reel they will beat HIM again. He
says he will give any farmer one, if
they have not sold more Mccormick
binders in Shiawassee Co., this year
than we have Buckeyes. He doesn't
say aOAaf they will give any farmer
but the supposition is that he means
a Mccormick binder. SO far as this
statement would affect him financially
he is probably perfectly safe. He
could no doubt give a McCormick
binder easier than he could give any
thing else, his Company having
thousands of them on hand and Of
course they would sustain him in any
such deed as that, being only too
anxious to get rid of them in any
way so they could call it a "boom."
Now Mr.. "Understrapper," you
say we do not accept any of the offers
you make regarding your "claims."
We will forfeit $500 if we have not
sold at least two machines to your
one in Shiawassee Co., this year. We
will forfeit $500 if we haven't the
right to build all the Appleby binders
we choose to, either for three years
or twenty. We will forfeit $500 if
there can be a man produced in
America who ever bought a Buckeye
machine and will say that we have
not done exactly as we agreed to byhim
You had better spend your "valu-
able time" hunting up farmers who,as
you say, will Suggest something for
you to write about instead of prowling
around peoples houses to find out
what they are doing Sundays.
p. J. BRYAN,
Gen'l Ag't for Aultman, Miller &Co.
P.S.-My neigobors advise me