Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20

But this rsvslAtion-by the publication
that the A" Planet, jr., !" implements we're
sold much cheaper 20 the foreigner than
any American could buy them, naturally
raised a small storm about the ears Of the
manufacturers, s. l.. Allen d Co., OF
Philadelphia; :. and IS they could not deny
this long-standing foreign advertisement,
nor these equally long standing discounts
to tho foreign retail buyer, they coneocted
the following series Of deliberate mis-,
statements concerning the matter, and
sent them to The WORLD for publica-
tion:
.PHILADELPmA, May "a. 1890,
We are to-day in receipt Of 4 copy Of your issus
Of May IL, calling attention 70. your article
nenrion is made in tbs sriiele Of our goods, and
as the statements are either Wilfully, or through
matter OF simple justice 20 ourselves you publish
in your next issue this letter, II order that the
well aware that Tits viii not repair the injury
j. We deny in toto that our prices to the 90
higher than 70 tho export trade.
z. We deny IN toto that we sell sinEle ma
Gs We sell at wholesale 70 the domestic buyer, or
any lower than We do 10 the domestic retail GUS
s. We pronounce as absolutely faise the Etate-
ment that the discounts which you Qoote on
onr goods are quoted to the retail buyer abroad.
They are trade prices, and ore never knowingly
quoted TO any one not in the trade.
4. We dsny that cur seed drill is ever quoted
at 60. 80 to tine retail trede abroad.
o. We deny that our combined driIl, rake and
plough is ever knowingly quoted OF $3.50 TO the
q. Ne deny that our Freely wheel hoe and
plough Is ever quoted at 1880 to the retail buyer
Z. We deny that our Tjrefy hand plough Is
ever quoted at the price you give. -.
8. We deny that we are now advertising tc sell
abroad Of retail cheaper than we willsell at home
D. Tndcr the heading @ cultiyators protected
eb per cent" you give two columns Of prices,
one purporting to be the price III the homo
market Tor large lots at Wholesale, and one
column purporting TO give retail price abroad.
We pronounce both figures absolutely incorrect.
Instead Of quoting the domestic Wholesale price
you quote domestic retail prices, and compare
t6sn; f6ts;n nSt With foreign {s, prices but wsa
that we do not think 1t needs any argument on
our part to ysubstantiate 1t, Rnd we trust you
order to dilhbuso them OF the false impression
8. l.. ALLEN h Co.
DENyINo TREIR owN ApyERTIsEMENT.
As every issue Of fact in this letter was
Cd its face an absolute and unqualified
falsehood, and would be known to be
such by every reader of TIE WORLD, its
publication WINS decllned--entirely in the
iuJeToblh VI y. II. Alleu % TO- IL 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 WoRnD's only
statement with which they wero con-
cerned was that this was q photograph Of
foreign Rdvertisement of their goods,
and that what S. L. Allen d Co. contra
dicted IN their letter were the statements
not of The World but of themselves in
their own advertisement, or of some one
authorized by them to advertise their
goods for sale abroad at these prices.
The 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 in accordance with 1t, or that it
represented the prices paid for their inn
ploments by foreign buyers.
>. L.. Allen'& Go. refused to write such
. letter or make such a denial. THEY
DARED NOT. They knew, or had reason
to know, that The World held their re-
ceipted bills, signed by the firm, in
which they had sold, An RETAIL, TO for
eign subscribers, at the exact net figures
named in their foreign advertisement.
Not one word of this would have ap-
peared in The WORLD but for the fact
that s. l.. Allen q 90, have printed their
Misrepresentation concerning THE
WORLD in trade papers, and Republican
editors have given them wide circulation
in party newspapers, whose readers do
not know that all The WORLD has done is
to photograph and reprint from the pho
tograph plate, without charge, the foreign
advertisements of s. l.. Aliens goods,
and it is proper that the readers of THE
WORLD should know exactly what man
ner of men these protected manufao-
tureEs Of agricultural implements are.