The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-23
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

10 EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The commercial travellers OF England are an impor-
tant body In the element or commerce. Most OF the
business OF the three kingdoms conducted through
their agency. There are special trains for their &C.
commodation. in which their sample trunks are re-
ceived and thus carried from town to town at little
or no cost for freight compared to what the same
bulk would be in regular merchandise. The hotels
very DESTROYS OF cutvatng their trade and OFFER
such Inducements as paror, called the commercial
room, for their special use and benefit The tables
OF these rooms are well supplied and the charges,
boh for board and lodging are less than to private
transient customers. Add to this. all such houses
provide for the wants OF commercial men rooms,
called sample rooms for which trine-say one shl-
ling to two shillings sterling per day-is charged.
These rooms are furnished with counters and all
other requisites for the display OF samples. This
system has become 80 universal that were 1t inter-
fered with BY any legislative enactments it would
Interested partles-buyer. seller and consumer.
Men composing this class OF the community are 10
TACTICAL Il their BUSINESS capacy ai II
their perseverance, OF high integrity and moral
worth, and from whose abors the spinning jenny OF
Manchester, the workshops OF Birmingham and the
looms OF Nottingham have been kept In motion.
Besides other industries In various parts Of the
institutions for the benefit and support OF such OF
their body az may become incapacitated by age
otherwise helpless. There are the Commercial Trav.
clIer Life Insurance Company ana other protective
companes supported manly ~ ssis class o. , se
shed fact that they are composed OF the best element
among their body for the extension Of COM
merce, and to whose untirlng excrtl0n England has
become the great commercial mart OF the world.
As their Intercourse became more lively the ex
enlarged, q cosmopolitan spirit united distant
munities and formed as it were, one great civilized
family. Let it be understood that the object OF all
trade and all activity is not to accumulate money
only, but to augment the sum OF happiness. II this
ali that they should do. Let it not be forgotten that
foreign commerce supplies us with an immense
variety OF most important articles OF which we must
otherwise have been partly, II not wholly, ignorant
IL enables us TO employ our industry In the mode In
which 1t is sure to be most productive and reduce
the price Of almost every article The Eastern States
do not misemploy their labor In the production OF
fabrics, does Pennsylvania waste its manhood in
bringing forth IT'S iron and coal The great West is
useiully serving mankind and enrching itself by the
cultivation OF It's vast prairies. The South has and
grand Staple and with I'll the rce eds Of tn the caronas
and the tobacco Of Virginia, East, West, North and
South employ themselves In thost departments OF
industry best suited to their geographical position.
Providence, by giving to each particular section
something which the other needs, has evidently in
tended that they should be mutually dependent upon
another. Being thus dependent and necessary TO
each other why should some OF our sister States
by oppressive enactments against the citlzens
OF other States In the shape OF license
samples Of the product or manufacture Of his own
State. Would not the city OF New York njure itself
did she enact law imposing forced contribution
by fine or license on coal from Pennsylvania manu-
featured copper from Maryland, on all cotton or
other commodity OF the South, upon those articles
being offered for sale In her market, the like on
corn. wheat. hogs beef brought from the West
In like manner do those States and municipalities
enacring such restrictive laws against the CONNER
cial body OF New York or other cities. act detri-
mental 10 the general interest OF the great body OF
citizens OF their respective States. IL Is an ac-
knowlcdged fact that IL IL political economy TO buy
In the cheapest and sell In the dearest markets, to
enact any law against which Is simply to benefit the
f..x.a tba nff ~ m Ia
tic and contrary TO the spirit OF our republican form
OF government, which ts government for the peo-
ple not for any particular Glass; and whenever this
class legislation should crop out, be II In ever 80
small form, 1t should be jealousy watched and no
time lost In killing It while In the bud, or 1t may
lead to such vast proportions that the vital interest
OF the people viii be effected by monopoes CON-
mencing by an indirect tax the purse. which may
finally lead to the destruction Of their political and
2nrllt freedom. n. T..