The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-10-31
INDEPENDENT.
BANCROFT.
Total 1915

BY q comparison Of retail prices Of
BAncToft's Readers with those now In
use il will be seen that Bancroft's are
9l.00 cheaper per set Of 8 books, or 20
cents per copy, or 26i per cent. This
10 veil worth saving.
The Gnan,i gain will also appear
(2) IN The gain al Ae tims Of exchange.
At this point comes in the objector and
says;
"But what are we going to do
with our Old books. We can't afford
to thcow them all away and get new
ones"
The publishers were prepared
for this objection, because it is not .
new one. But they do not meet II as
!. has been met by other Publishers on
former occasions, needless Of the inter-
ests and wishes Of tbs public. oa the
contrary the public interest has been
consulted as well ~ the publishers in
terest, and the objection Is generously
met by proposition which not only
calls for no sacrifice Of any reader now
in use, but, on the contrary, when any
such reader can DO no longer used by
its owner il will DO accepted in Z pay
ment Of the book next required. The
hArdships which the public has hereto.
fore experienced in q change, arises
from the following facts:
lst. That only the old reader Of a
particular grade was received for new
reader Of the same grade that is, q
First Reader for . First Reader, q Sec
ond Reader for Second Reader, etc.
End. That at the end of three months
this mild extoltion was replaced by 4
prompt advance 10 full prices for all
books purchased, the old books remain
ing in the hands of the pupil, counting
for absolutely nothing.
Bancroft & Go. present no forcing
process Of this kind. Their proposition
differs from the above in both par'icu-
lars.
1st- When school opens after July
1885, all children who have finished
their old readers may exchange them
for the new higher reader that must be
bought IN any epent, and save I Of the
usua! price. This saying considerably
more than offsets in any family, any
occasional old book which q younger
clild could take. Figure it out and
sec.
2nd. All children who have not fn-
ished their old readers, at the close oi
the preceding year, can give them in
payment for the higher book which they
need when the lower is finished-in sis
months or in twelve months or eighteen
months or any other time when they
nsed the higher book.
When they get these higher books for
the first time in this way the prices vii
be for second reader 15c, instead of so
third reader 25c, instead Of rs, fol
fourth reader SOC, instead Of 81, TO
fifth reader Soc, instead of $l.25.
On this proposition it 10 impossible
for any one to figure out any expendi-
ture occasioned by the change. There i
none. So confident are the publisher
Of this that they are ready to furnisl
any family with complete set Of thei
elegant new readers, where fair ant
full figuring does not show gain to re,
suit to such family from the change.
Moreover, the new readers are all, from
first to fifth, bound in cloth, and with
out extra charge. A first or secon,
reader bound in cloth will last twice q
long as the usual binding,-such bind
ing AS is employed on the present Sc
ries.
Bot in addition to this the Indepen-
dent series has sixth reader which j
used IN many schools increasing the cos
$3.50. We have given the prices a
which the Independent Readers hav'
been sold. II these prices are re
duced When the publishers solicit .
new contract, it will be hecaus,
our competition has forced them to it
but they have not, up to this time, beer
reduced in Oregon. It may BE- of inter
est to the public, however, to know
that the publishers of the Independen
readers offered them to the Board o
Washington Territory on tie II of las
July at Soc set cheaper than this
Why they were not reduced to the peo
pie of Oregon at the same time so tina
they could avail themselves of the he
duction during the present year, it il
not for the publisher of Bancroft's read
ers to explain.
We ask of the public the careful con
sidetation of the above proposition. W.
think that the bugbear of extra "cost''il
making change, lis put to death. Wehavt
made the statement as fairly as we know
how to make it, We ask only that il