Show mr lukes answer 51 fain A S cornell alio representatives presenta tives of an organization known as the merchants retail commercial agency who dortho for the benefit of themselves not the merchants them to beware of my company volunteered to pay for telegrams in in regard to our standing As wo we do not ask the merchants to trust us and pay ayears a years membership in in advance as fain A cornell do I 1 suggested that the telegrams bo be sent to secretaries of their organizations tiona which they established two three and four years ago in in ili indiana and illinois to show the public and the merchants in particular how their plan worked after they had secured their years membership fees lees in in advance and left eft the town but they positively ively declined to pay for any such tele telegram gram I 1 have letters in my possession from those former secretaries in in indiana and illinois which I 1 shall bo be pleased to show the merchants when I 1 call on them we will continue to do our work and collect quarterly and they maycon may continue saucing for damages as it is evident from the following letter that the merchants prefer the idea of paying quarterly instead of in in advance and trusting for returns utah nov 1 1892 to the public neither M D F rain ain nor ES IS cornell comell wera authorized by me to make any such buell statement in in regard to mr F G luko luke or ins his business with me as appeared yesterday I 1 have agreed to pay pa mr luke quarterly for the work if he be does the work and considering that he collects quarterly and issues issued his monthly reports I 1 believe ho lie will dolt do it I 1 prefer this plan in in preference to paying a IL 11 bole years membership i in n a advance saying vane and trusting for the work w ork to be done afterwards ter wards yours very respectfully II 11 31 BOND co I 1 As to winch which plan is is the best for the merchants they will judge for themselves owing to the fact that wo we collect quarterly it is necessary for ii us to fulfill our agreement with merchants or we forfeit their accounts and three fourths of the tile membership fee yours respectfully F bracis G LUKE lilke |