Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — HOWL OF A DEPRAVED MIND. [ARTICLE]

HOWL OF A DEPRAVED MIND.

The Democrat sent copies of the Republican’s “yawp” about our piano contest, to the Interstate Mfg. Co., and yesterday ‘ received the following letter from that firm: 1 . lowa- City, la., Jan. 1, 1912. Mr. F. E. Babcock, Jaspei* County Democrat, Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Sir: We are indebted to you for the courtesy shown in laying before us the matter of your letter „of the 30th, and the copies of the papers, " for which please accept thanks. ; January Ist, is not really a good day to have your mind brought face to face with the fact that the backbiters, deceivers and men of the unprincipled class still live, and yet, we suppose that Judas has been with us every moment since the days of Jesus, and with our New Year’s resolutions to be charitable to all! men, we are not disposed to draw too heavily Upon vitrolic vials, and we will therefore make some state-

ments and comparisons and let the people draw their own' conclusions. You know “a partial truth” is the most abominable falsehood that can possibly be uttered. I have the copy of the Republican before me as I write, ana want you to get your copy and read their version of the telegram sent us, as printed by them, and then rend the REAL TRUTH of the telqmua. here it is: “Rensselaer, Ind., DcHH Inter State Mfg. Co., Quote'us by wird lowest Banner piano mahogany finish *| be used in Newspaper subscription contest. Thß piano would receive several months advertising through our columns and we expect your very lowest Wire price at once don’t sed|Htaii. The RepublicanMfcmley ft Clark. ” i:4 5 P. M.” Our reply was: •IM* “$145.00 CASH and special mention three times during contest.”

In the face oT the fact that they promised us SEVERAL MONTHS advertising, that we demanded THREE SPECIAL MENTIONS, and $145,00, cash, would you Mr. Bkbcock under the same consideration feel that you were getting the piano for $145.00? If you would, then we would not consider your advertising space of very much value to us, abd judging from the matter In print in the Republican under dates of 29th and 3Qth, Messrs. Healey and Clark place absolutely no value whatever on their advertising space and their telegram quotdd gboye was a malicious attempt on their part to defraud this house, for which they could be brought 1 to account. Futhermore it is just the same as a personal statement made by these gentlemen to the merchants of your city that space for advertising in their columns is not Worth a CENT. Also, according to their issues of dates above mentioned, they deliberately lied to us when, they stated in the telegram that it was to be used in NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST, and the good old BOOK states that God hates a LIAR, so it cannot be wondered at if all that community should even loathe men sp low in the scale of ordinary decency that they will stoop to such contemptible methods. Again they state that k local dealer has saia that the piano given away by you could be bought for $87.50. We have no comment to make against the LOCAL DEALER, because we do not believe that he ever made any such statement. But if he has, I would advise that the people of your community demand the name of the said DEALER and then go and see some of the piano’s sold by him sot $300.00 to $500.00 to their neighbors* and compare them with- the, Banner given away by you—if they have any judgment that .ought to satisfy them as to the TRUTH OF THE STATEMENT above stated, and if the pianos sold as above are not much better than your’s, then they have a right to demand a refund for excess charges.

The statement made by Mr. Hammond of the First National Bank, is sufficiently corroborative of the fact that you paid us $278.40 for the piano. We want to say that these pianos are rnadp specially for us and that in the years that we have been placing them before the public we have yet to hear the first complaint against them, while at the same time we have right now In our possession scores of'letters from our satisfied patrons. And futhermore, every piano we put out <s fully guaranteed for TEN YEARS We would be very much pleased to have the people in your neighborhood take their musically inclined friends and go and inspect very carefully, both finish of case, volume and quality of tone, ease of action, Ivory keys, in fact everything. It would simply meah sales for us, that’s all.

We feel, Mr. Babcock, that this is due you, but were it not for you we would never think of answering the Republican’s vicious, discourteous, and absolutely uncalled for attack on fjoth you and ourselves, because w’e have always noticed that it is the cur and not the well-bred pup, who makes the most unnatural noiseS. * Yours very truly, J N.. GALLOWAY, Mgr. , P- S, —You are at liberty to publish this if you wish. J. N. G. Now Here’s a penny, littl6 boy. Go buy you an all-day sucker and then run out in the back yard with your little tin sword and play soldier until' you get in Ibetter^humor.