The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-01
THEIR EXPLANATION
STATEMENTFROM THE DUR
HAM FERTILIZERS COM
PANY.
A Full and Frank Statement of
Facts Concerning Recent
Transactions.

A Full and Frank Statement of |
Facts Concerning Recent
Transactions.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.
acopy of which was sent us and
is as follows: "At a meeting of
Ridgeway Farmers Alliance,
No. 7S4, the following resolu-
tions were adopted:
Whereas certain newspapers
in the State unfriendly to the
Alliance have diligently striven
to create the impression that
trouble existed between our AL
lance and the Durham Fertlli-
ger Company; and whereas we
believe it our duty to assert our
confidence in our ability to take
care of our own interests and
to defend said Fertilizer Com
pany from attacks of enemies
by whatever motives prompted;
and whereas the Durham Ferti.
lizer Companp has rendered to
our Alliance the sum of $2.43
upon each tag of fertilizer pur-
chased by us and embraced in
the shipment alleged by the
Commissioner of Agriculture to
be below guaranteed standard.
Resolved, That the attacks
upon the Durham Fertilizer
Company are false and unjust
and that in our belief they are
instigated by the malicious mo-
tives of representatives QSy;val
goods which have beef repu-
dated by the Alliance 5re shis
State.
Resolved, That we have com.
plete confidence in the honesty
and integrity of the Durham
Fertilizer Company and ex-
cellence of its goods.
Resolved, That we have re-
ceived what we have found ev-
cry bag Of their goods up to re-
presentations and guarantee.
Resolved, That being entirely
satisfied with the goods so fur
nished us and believing that the
real objects of the recent at
tacks are to promote rival con
Germs and to create dissension in
the Alliance and cause discord
between it and its tested friends,
we will not receive any part Of
the money rendered by the Dur
ham Fertilizer Company be-
cause we are not entitled to it,
and that our business agent be
and is hereby instructed to re-
turn the same to the Company
with a copy of these resolutions
which will be spread upon the
minutes.
(signed) g. NJ. BURTON.
Secretary.
In this connection we would
like to remark: Did anybody
ever before hear of a man who
was cheated refusing to receive
back the money out of which
he had been defrauded? And
we have actually been criticised
severely becaused we offered TO
refud this money. Surely, we
are placed between two fires. The
department and the newspapers at
the instance Of our trade rivals say
refund I" We offer to refund and
our customers say they will not take
the money. The newspapers say
We defrauded our customers; we
say and they say, we did not. The
farmer who buys and uses our goods
is satisfied with his purchases and
pays accordingly. Some editors
who run newspapers and do not buy
our fertilizers, seem net to be
satisfied.
Again see whatthe other Alliance
purchasers Of this lot Of goods have
to say: The lot shipped 10 w. B.
Sellars, agent, June 10Th, 1891, at a
regular meeting Of Pleasant Grove
Alliance, No. 1883, it was unani-
mously resolved: That we declare
our entire satisfaction with all the
fertilizers sold to members Of this
Alliance BY the Durham Fertilizer
Company, and that we denounce the
recent attacks on the said company
by pretended friends Of the Alliance
as falsely stating the facts and the
Alliance sentiment. That we sus-
peet the real motive Of such attacks
10 be in tie interest Of manufaet.
urers Of fertilizers which the ALI.
ance will not use and in the hope Of
sowing seeds Of ilscoTd and c0nfu.
sion in our ranks 10 advance the
wishes Of our open and hidden foes
| Resolved End. That we have all
the protection we want or need in
the care and ability Of state Busl.
ness Agent W. II. Worth, who
commands our firm confidence, and
We object 70 the meddlesome inter-
ference Of outside parties IN affairs
which do nOtGoncern them, and our
Secretary will send copies Of ther,
resolutions to w. III. Worth and
to the Durham Fertilizer Company,
with a letter expressing our conf.
denee in the honesty Of the com.
pany's officers aud the value Of il
fertilizer.
(Srgnejt LEVI WmTTED,
| President.