The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-24

vance in our prices, and that if any furth-
er reduction of our regular prices is made
your school shall have the benefit of said
reduction.
The purchaser is to pay all charges
for freight or express under this agree
ment
Books ordered for first supply to be
date of this order; all subsequent orders
within thirty days after date of order.
(Signed) American Book Company.
These terms were adhered to, and no
others have been given by US in Penn
sylvania from that time to the present, as
our bills will show, and as the secretary
of every school board in the state who
buys from Us will testify.
Taking up the specific instances of
discrimination, as alleged: Pittsburg,
which uses Mines high school algebra,
pays 80 cents, and not 50 cents, the price
quoted in the newspaper articles.
Mcheesport and Bellefonte do not use
an algebra published by US, and hence
we cannot be held responsible for the
prices charged in those cities by another
publisher.
The geometry referred to as costing
Bellefonte 90 cents, Pittsburg and Allie
gheny $105 and Brownsville 6S cents, is
not published by US, nor is the arithme-
tic our publication, which is said to be
sold to Homestead at 50 cents, and in
Allegheny at 5216 cents.
The statement that Homestead buys
its geography at a lower rate than is &C
corded Alleg heny is not correct, as both
cities buy of Us Harper's Geography, at
90 cents per copy.
The prices quoted in Carnegie are in
correct, as the School Board of that city
has itself already shown. To illustrate,
the First ward uses Harper's School
Geography, for which the city pays SO
cents, aud not 500. as stated.
Oil City and Pittsburg do not use the
same text book Of Geography, the former
using Swinton's Grammar School Geog-
raphy, for which it pays $1.00, and the
latter the Eclectic Geography, at 96 cents.
The histories contrasted in the First
ward of Carnegie and in the city Of Bella
fonte are not the same books; that used
in BelIefonte is our publication and costs
that city but 81 cents. The higher price
of $1.10 paid in Carnegie is for a history
which is not published by this company.
Conklin's English Grammer is in use in
Carnegie and Washington. and those
cities pay Us for the same AS cents per
| copy, the same as paid by Pittsburg and
! Williamsport, and not So cents or "a
/ cents, as quoted.
Carnegie pays 80 cents for Mines Ar
ithmetic, the same as Pittsburg, and not
| 80 cents, as stated.
In the remaining cases of geography
and history in the Second ward of Car
negie that city pays 81 and 80 cents re-
spectively for these two books, and moi
$3.50 and $1.1O, as wrongly stated in the
public press.
1t should be said additionally that it is
probable that some districts procured ouI
publications through local dealers, over
| whose prices we had no control, and
about which we have no exact knowl
edge, but they cannot have varied much
from the prices offered directly to the
| districts by ourselves
For the absolute truth of the foregoing
/ statements we refer to the bills and re
ceipts from this company now in the
hands of the secretaries of the schoo
boards in the cities referred to, and w
also invite a comparison of our price
above quoted with the prices of tn,
same books paid throughout the entir
state.
This disposes of every single allega
tiou as to deviation in prices that wa
made by the writer of the original ar
ticle, and proves that the prices Of thu
American Book company to the schoo
boards are absolutely uniform through
out the state.
AMERICAN Book COMPANY.