The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-31

But this revelation-by the publication |
o. tho foreign advertisemont-of the fact |
tbat the - Planet, jr.,n implements were |
sold much cheaper 60 the foreigner than |
any American could buy them, naturally !
iased q smutl storm about the ears OF the
manufacturers, S. L. Allen & Co., of
Philadelphia; aud as they could not deny
this long-sinn1ing foreign advertisement,
nor those equally long standing discounts
to the foreign retail buyer, they concOcted
the following series OF deliberate mis-
statements concerning the matter, and
sent them to The WORLD for publica-
ton;
r,,,.. ..,. %. ,Pn1tADELrntA, Nay "a, 1890.
Nearo to-day in receip Of q copy Of your issue
G.adeY IH3E ON ne efni9a 70 y9eT sTeie
mcpton is y ode N ;his article .oi our goods and
Mnoroncc, SO entirely false We 1sk that os
inat'cg OF simple justice 20 ourselves you publish
mis- aiei ca may ie corfected alti ouh We are
ygii a|gic that this vlh not repair the injury
j. We deny in toto the, our riices to tho do.
imesuc trace iti The same quantity OF goods are
9. We dsny in toto that We cell single ms
Salnes sa az 'e. ~ 70 We forgGn purchaser Us low
9Ay lower than We 40 TO the domestic retail Gus
toner lhuet similar ircupstAnees;
rent that the discounts which YOU quote on
qYl Eooes sie quoted 10 tho tttul buyer abrund,
quoted TO any ono not in the trsde.
=: We deny that our seed drill is ever quoted
at $3.50 TO the retal trade abroad.
y, W deny that our combined drill, rake and
PloJgh IS ever knowingly quoted al So. 80 TO the
., We deny that our Fircfy wheel hoe md
nough Is ever quoted at 3d. so to the retail buy
z. We deny that our Freely hand plough Is
| ever quoted at the price you give.
| S. We deny that we are now advertising to sell
abroad at retail cheaper than We viii sell at home
o. Under the heading 7" Cultiv.tors protected
| 50 per cent you give two columns Of prices,
market Tor large lots at wholesale, ana one
column purrortlng TO give retail Price abroad.
S quoting the domestic S W%Roesaie % Sp Price ffs
| you quote domestic retail prices, and compare
that We do not think 1t needs any argument On
Will place these facts before Your readers in
| order TO disabuse them Of the false impression
8. l.. ALLEN & Co.
| DENyINo THEIR OWN ADvERTIsEnlENr.
As every issue OF fact in this letter waa
on its face an absolute and unqualified
falsehood, and would bo known to be
such by every reader of The WORLD, its
| publication was decl1ned-e entirely in the
interests Of S. l.. Allen & Co. 1t was
pointed out to that foolish firm that The
WORLD had made no statement or state
ments whatever concerning their goods
or implements; that The WoRLD's only
statement with which they we're con-
cerned was that this was photograph Of
q foreign advertisement of their goods,
and that what S. J.. Allen & Co. con1a-
dicted in their letter were tho statements
not of The WORLD but of themselves in
their own advert isement, or of some one
authorized by them 20 advertise their
goods for saie abroad at these priCos
IHE WORLD added that it would publish
with pleasure proper letter from them
denying that the advertisement was au-
thorized by them, or that they filed
orders i'll accordance with it, or that it
represented the prices paid for their i'm
plements by foreign buyers.
). l.. Allen * Co. refused to write such
letter or mako such n denial. THEY
DARED NOT. They knew, or had reason
to know, that IHE World held their re-
ceipted bills signed by the firm, in
which they had sold. AT RETAIL, TO for
elgn subscribers, at the exact net figures
named in their foreign advertisement.
Not ono word of this would have aD-
peared in THE WoELp but for the fact
that $. i. Alien & Co. have printed their
INSTRUMENTATION concerning TIE
World in trade papers. and Republican
editors have given them wide circulation
III party newspapers whose readers do
not know that all TIE World has done is
to photograph and reprint from the pho
tograOh plate. without charge, the foreign
advertisements of $. J.. Aliens goods,
and II is proper that the readers of THE
World should know exactly what man
ner of men these protected mQnutac-
turers OF agricultural implements are.