The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-08-14
have been abandoned and that repairs
are not furnished for any others is

oHo HOt 1uE0Aune0s IQr any others ls
branded by Attorney Bancroft as
"notoriously and absolutely false" /"
He further says that repairs for ev-
cry type( at the time Of the report)
were and have ever since been fur
n1shed by the International when
and wherever called for"
"The reports charge of a binder
twine trust is without any founda-
ton whatever" declares the reply,
which also states that the Interna-
tional has had the vigorous compe-
tition of one large and six smaller
twine manufacturers in addition to
seven state penitentlary twine mills.
In reply to the charge that compe-
tition has been largely suppressed, ("
Mr.. Bancroft cites the names of eight
firms which he declares are all ac-
tive competitors.
AS to the charge that the Interna-
tional receives rebates from railroads
and special concessions from the U.
s. steel corporation, the reply de-
clares that the harvester company's 8
relation to the U. S. steel corpora
tion is not different from its rela-
tions with other, competitors of the
steel corporation" and that during
the past z years it has bought from
the steel corporation 40 per cent of
Its total needs while it has purchased
thirty per cent from competitors of
the U. S. STEEL the balance of its
needs having been supplied by the
lnternational's subsidiary corpora
ton. the Wisconsin Steel company"
AS to the charge of increasing pric-
es the International asserts that in
stead of increasing them it's influence
has been to prevent increases; that
the self-binder sells at a very low
price relatively lower than that of
any other farm implement or ma
chine; that the selling prices are
freely fixed by the dealers and that
the terms of credit, the facilities fur
nished and expert service are more
liberal than ever before; that al
though the price of new materials
has increased more than thirty per
cent, its prices were not increased
until 1908, and then only seven per
cent; and that for 1912 q reduction
of five per cent was announced last
month.
On the subject of foreign prices,
"the International denies that per-
RENAL falsehood that agricultural i'm
plements are sold abroad cheaper
than at home," and declares that the
governments own investigation pub
lished in the daily consular and trade
reports of February, March and
April, 1909, shows that the prices for
the six foot binder, which is sold in
America for $125. are as follows:
France $l73.70. Germany $2O3; Den
mark $167.50, South Russia $685.
Great Britain $135.16, and that .'the
net prices received by the American
manufacturer are greater on the ma
] chimes soldNabroadt than at, home."
As to hescharge, that the Interna-
tional 10 a "trust,3ysthe reply is that
It was not "a merger OF the existing
corporations but new one in which
| $50, 100000 was invested by persons
not heretofore In the harvester busi-
| ness; that it has owned and operat-
ed all the properties purchased
without the influence or control OF
any of the old companies and that
the great majority of officers and
| stockholders in the old companies
had no part in the management OF
the International but sold out their
business and retired"
Finally, the International denies
that ANY plants purchased by it were
closed or abandoned, but states that
all the plants were enlarged, improv-
ed and have employed more men than
ever before; that several of the prop
critics purchased were bankrupt and
practically out of trade"
It declares that outside Of the
harvester lines, it has not more than
forty per cent of the trade in any
line and that in most of them it has
less than twenty-five per cent"