The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-18
NAILED AGAIN.

The Helena Journal says the table sof
comparative prices on agricultural i'm
Elements to home and foreign buyers as
published in The INDEPENDENT of Octo-
Der 16 sis a lie from beginning to end"
1t produces no proof of its statement.
1t can produce none because our figures
are true. Now to the test. The INDIE
PENDENT will forfeit 81 900 to any char
ity the Journal may name if it does not
prove every figure and item in the table
above mentioned to be correct, provided
the Journal will pay a like forfeit in case
we make good our statements. The
point at issue shall be determined by a
committee, one member of which shall
be named by the Journal, one by The
INDEPENDENT, and the third by the
other two. We do not ask the Journal
to attempt to prove it's charge that THE
INDEPENDENT used false figures. We
propose to take the affirmative on our
own figures and prove their veracity.
All the Journal has to do is to put up
its money.
The dishonesty of the Journal il pre-
tending to answer the figures quoted in
The INDEPENDENT by publishing a let
ter of denial from Allen & Co., whose
prices we did not quote, is too transpar-
ent to call for extended notice. But we
are also prepared to prove to the salts
faction of any impartial committee that
Allen & Go. were guilty OF prevarication.
The letter Of that firm as quoted by the
Helena journal was read in the United
States senate during the debate on the
Mckinley bill, and Senator Vest nailed
their f%alsehoods to the barn door by
producing the following letter from the
editor of the Engineering and Mining
Journal, a newspaper whose integrity
and standing cannot be assailed:
ENdINEER1NG AND MINING JOURNAL. New
YORK, Aug. 2G, 1890.-Dear Sir: / am
obliged to you for the letter of Aug 25 re-
speeding proceedings taken in the senate re-
garding our prices Current"
Prices quoted by us are, as you will no
tice at the head of the first column, "for
export only and the prices therein given
are the prices at which every foreign sub
scriber can buy in this market. 1t stands
to reason that orders for farm implements
are frequently for one only. If to buy one
machine is retail trade, then these foreign
prices are retail prices.
Our domestic subscribers are barred
from the prices quoted in these columns,
These special discounts are "for export
only" and in more than one instance we
have lost our advertiser through our pub
fishing these prices.
inclose an invoice from s. Allen d Co..
which you will see is for one of the ma
CHIMES quoted by us, and you will notice
that 1t conforms exactly with our prices as
reprinted in the World, and that the net
price on the bill is exactly as stated in the
World.
Your statement that the foreigner can
buy at retail in this market cheaper than
the domestic consumer is az indisputable as
me daily revolution OF the earth.
Yours very truly.
LII ENGINEERING N MINING journal,
Allen d Co. never answered this let
ter. They cannot do. so. They were
caught in the act and have nothing to
say. We thank the Journal for calling
public attention to this particular firm,
however, although we had not quoted
their wares. They are a fair specimen
OF the overfed concerns that are fatten-
ing on our farmers under a forty-iive per
sent tariff.
Now:get down to business, Mr.. Jour.
nal, for that $1,000 or get into your hole.
OLD and young will be interested in
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