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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 13, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I received your letter of the 27th inst., 
enclosing check of Temple I’ump Co. to 
you for $211.50. for which accept many 
. thanks, as you not only deserve much credit 
for collecting a debt that I considered value¬ 
less. but also a good commission for mak¬ 
ing the collection, and if you will name 
your commission I will certainly take pleas¬ 
ure in forwarding same. j. b. Leonard. 
Cliilhowie, Va. 
This ends one of the most stubborn 
contests The R. N.-Y. has ever been 
called upon to wage against a manu¬ 
facturing house on behalf of a sub¬ 
scriber. It is the only serious difficulty 
we have ever had with one of our own 
advertisers. There has never been any 
question about the financial responsi¬ 
bility of the house. We never questioned 
that the engines were giving entire sat¬ 
isfaction to many users. The point was 
that this particular engine was sold to 
Mr. Leonard under a definite guarantee 
that it would do certain and definite work. 
The guarantee was to be indefinite; 
and in case the engine failed to give sat¬ 
isfaction it was to be returned and the 
purchase price refunded less freight 
charges one way. Mr. Leonard was 
never able to get this engine to work 
from the start. The manufacturers sent 
him voluminous instructions, which were 
followed, but always with failure. After 
repeated trials the engine was returned 
and request made for a return of the 
money. This was refused. The engine 
was repaired, and returned with a bill 
for repairs. Mr. Leonard never accepted 
it, and complaint was then made to The 
R. N.-Y. After going over the cor¬ 
respondence, we saw clearly .that Mr. 
Leonard was fully justified in his de¬ 
mands. As is usual, we took it up pri¬ 
vately with the manufacturers. For 
months we tried to induce them to ad¬ 
just the claim. They stubbornly refused. 
We asked them to send a competent 
man to put the engine to work, and 
guaranteed to pay his time and expense 
if he succeeded in making the engine do 
the work as promised, provided they 
would agree to take the engine away 
and refund the money if he failed to 
make it work. This was also refused. 
We then advised them that the adver¬ 
tising contract was cancelled ; and that as 
Mr. Leonard could not afford to go to 
court, we would submit the case to a 
jurv of our 100,000 farmers. This they 
called blackmail, and threatened suit 
against us. It was claimed that, if we 
published the facts, other manufacturers 
would refuse to advertise in the paper. 
When the facts were made public, two 
manufacturers’ associations took it up. 
At first one of them defended the com¬ 
pany vigorously. Full page advertise¬ 
ments of the engine appeared in other 
farm papers to overcome the effect. The 
representatives of some of these papers 
defended the Temple Pump Company, 
and our representatives were told that 
our action would cost The R. N.-Y. the 
loss of much business. It was called 
yellow journalism. In the meantime we 
went right on repeating tl at Mr. Leon¬ 
ard had a contract with the Temple 
Pump Company which had been violated. 
We wanted to know whether it was safe 
for a farmer to make a contract with a 
responsible house and send his money in 
advance. We also wanted to know 
whether or not a farm paper could safe¬ 
ly insist that a financially responsible 
house should keep its contracts with sub¬ 
scribers. Other manufacturers in all 
lines saw the point at once. They said 
rightly that a repudiated agreement by 
one concern, discredited in a measure 
every house doing business in the same 
way. They saw also that if no responsi¬ 
bility for guarantees and promises was 
incurred, then the house that made the 
biggest claims would get the trade with¬ 
out regard to the merit of the goods, so 
that the honest, conservative house 
would he at a disadvantage in competi¬ 
tion with houses that had no intention 
of making good on promises and guar¬ 
antees after the sale was made. It was 
probably this attitude of the trade gen¬ 
erally that decided the contest. The 
demonstration was one of the most en¬ 
couraging and edifying features of the 
whole controversy. There was, however, 
one other telling feature. Farmers took 
it up, and expressed themselves freely. 
Many of them wrote to other papers in 
which the advertising was appearing, de¬ 
manding that it be withdrawn. Finally 
a new agency of broad business experi¬ 
ence and strictest integrity came to rep¬ 
resent the company. A. prompt investi¬ 
gation was made and a check soon fol¬ 
lowed for Mr. Leonard’s claim. It was 
a stubborn, persistent contest. Just for 
the money involved in this transaction 
it would not be worth while. But it is 
more than that. It is a victory for a 
principle. It has demonstrated that a 
farmer had redress for any honest 
grievance with a financially responsible 
house. It has demonstrated that a farm 
paper is justified in defending the just 
rights of its subscribers. But more im¬ 
portant than all, it has demonstrated 
that the great army of manufacturers 
and business houses throughout the 
country not only stand up squarely for 
it, but actually demand a “square deal.” 
Globe Association. Chicago. Ill. 
Inquiries are beginning to come in 
again about this concern, indicating that 
they are renewing their activities. We 
thought we exhausted the subject last 
J'ear, but it is evident that some of 
our old friends overlooked what we said, 
and also that the new subscribers have 
never had any warning. Hence we re¬ 
peat the advice to leave them alone. 
Their offer of employment is a fake, and 
the offer of 170 pounds of sugar for 
$1.25 is also a fake. The quicker you 
get their circulars into the fire the safer 
you will be from their schemes. 
Would you please tell me about Alfred 
Post & Co.. 205 Greene street. New York, 
and J heir quotations on ginseng and golden 
seal ? As the prices are higher than any 
others, I thought something might be wrong. 
Please give me your opinion. w. s. p. 
West Virginia. 
Your suspicions are well founded. Al¬ 
ways be wary of concerns that send out 
price lists offering or quoting higher 
prices than the market. Alfred Post is 
said to be the sole owner of this busi¬ 
ness. His principal business is buying 
of furs from trappers and exporting of 
the raw furs. Ginseng is evidently a 
side line. A judgment for $151 was re¬ 
corded against him on March 24, 1908, 
at Camden, N. J., for goods consigned 
to be sold on commission. It has never 
been satisfied on the records. He is re¬ 
ported slow and unsatisfactory from 
country shippers, and has no credit 
standing in New York City. In this 
market he is held to cash transactions. 
I called on express company again and 
found Adams Express Company had in¬ 
structed their agent that if party was still 
importunate for a settlement of his 
claim to pay the same and take his re¬ 
ceipt. This was promptly done. I again 
thank you for your kindness in pushing this 
matter to a settlement. I shall do what 
I can to aid in getting you subscribers 
for your valuable paper. If I can at any 
time be of service to you down here, I 
shall be glad of the opportunity. 
Maryland. g. f. p. 
This claim was for $4.20, for a case 
of eggs shipped in June, 1908, and 
broken in transit. Claim was put in, 
but never paid. Complaint was made to 
us in July last. We have been on the 
job ever since. It took three months to 
effect settlement after we took it up. 
In making the complaint the shipper 
said he did not mind the money loss 
so much as the fact that he was done 
up by the express company and could 
get no redress. If these express com¬ 
panies were wise they would change 
their tactics. They are certainly laying 
up trouble for themselves, and they 
will reap the fruits later on. The peo¬ 
ple will not stand their methods forever. 
As to the St. Cloud Land proposition, 
some years ago Disstons formed a stock 
company with the object of raising sugar 
cane there. The company went to great 
expense, installed a fine sugar mill, etc. An 
insect attacked and destroyed all the cane, 
and the project was abandoned. The mill, 
I believe, was subsequently shipped to 
Mexico. Then they tried rice, and that, 
too, proved unsuccessful. As I heard and 
understood it. it proved so sickly that the 
laborers could not stay there. For years 
the prairies lay idle. Now some company, 
I see, has acquired the land to sell to 
Northern investors (?). I would advise 
prospective buyers to visit Kissimmee before 
buying. Look the ground over and I know 
they will find cheaper and more desirable 
locations near Kissimmee that will prove 
far superior. a. h. s. 
Florida. 
The above is from another man on 
the ground, or at least near it. The 
advice is good. You can usually get 
cheaper and better land outside the con¬ 
trol of these land promoting companies 
than within their jurisdiction. We sim¬ 
ply want to give all the disinterested in¬ 
formation we can find for the benefit of. 
those who are interested. We have no 
object but the protection of those who 
may not be in a position to get the in¬ 
formation for themselves. 
I am very well pleased with the paper, 
especially the “Publisher’s Desk,” which, by 
the way. is worth its weight in gold. Had 
it not been for a little article I saw there 
I would have been out $100, but very fortu¬ 
nately I only lost five dollars. 1 was going 
to invest in the Woman’s World, and sent 
five dollars for first payment, but when I 
saw your advice I accepted it and am very 
grateful that I did not send any more. 
Massachusetts. a. t. l. 
Many people have said they do not 
see how we can afford to run this de¬ 
partment of the paper. Strictly from 
a financial point of view, perhaps we 
cannot afford it. It is now costing at 
the rate of $10,000 a year, and of course 
there is no direct revenue from it. But 
a letter like the above—and we get 
hundreds of them—is -worth something. 
It at least makes one feel that he is 
doing something for a class of people 
who have heretofore had no help in 
matters of this kind. j. j. d. 
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