The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-09
Uhe Sutelliotln.tl1cE.
Once , Nos. 10 aud 81 Fourteenth Street
THE DEFINITION OF 4 rEDplER.


He Invndes Peoples Homes and Persuade
Them to Duy What They Do Not Want.
Philadelphia Pres. W. I8f M n
In application OF ia recent decision
in relation to hucksters and peidlers
the Supreme Couri yesterday, through
Justice Williams, delivered another
opinion which discusses tho Declaration
OF Rights, accurately picturea the char
acteristics Of tho pcddlcr, announces The
right oil u farmer to sell bis own produce
from door 10 door and defines the scope
OF tho Interstate Commerce law. :.
Agents under salary, selling n product
manufactured by Rhode Island firm
were convicted In Schuylkill county Of
! "peddling," md wnro fined. The Sn.
preme Court decided That tho Schuyl.
Kill County Court was right in enforcing
the law against these peddlers. In pass,
Ing upon tho points raised on behalf Of
the peddlers, Justice Williams said: 4
"The pcddler Is n transient Will, no
fixed place Of business, who seeks Gus.
TONERS by invading their homes and
makes sales by persuading people to buy
what they do not need, mud who, by tho
time he is wanted TO answer for his rem.
reservations aud engagements, ID ont OF
sight. 1t Ia this matter OF tracking a Ia.
boring man or woman into tho house
and laying seige TO him or her by an un.
scrupulous and self.posspssed stranger
who Is after money and has no delicate
scruplea about the manner in which be
gets 1t, that has made the peddler a
dread In the country and in the villages.
7 A rARMEn's RIGHTS.
" do not regard the sale oftlo natural
products Of the soil by the farmer or
gardener by whom they arc raised as
affected by the laws relating 10 peddlers.
Farmers are not within the mischief
which these laws were intended to
remedy, except Us they are the victims
OF TINT mischief. The carriage Of the
surplus products OF tho farm or garden
to 4 market town or from house TO house
is not pcddling, but is incidental to their
business as farmers. Peddlers are for.
hidden to sell goods, wares and mer-
These words were never in.
tended to include farm products in the |
hands OF the farmer; nor is the trans
portation OF suci products TO market
for sale, or to regular customers who are
supplied by tho grower, the sort OF bust.
ness at which the laws relating to ped.
ding arc directed. s,-
WHAT INTERSTATE COMMERCE. IS.
ut is broadly asserted that our laws on
peddling are an invasion otthc exclusive
right OF Congress to regulate Interstate
We have understood inter
State commerce 10 refer to the free inter.
change OF commodities between citizens
81 the different States without regard to
State line; our laws relating to pedllinp
erect no barrier at the State line, provide
Tor no inspection or stoppage, and levy
no tax on the introduction into or trans
portation through the State or any sort
II property whatever. The citizen OF
mother State may come into Pennsyl.
'ania when 10 will and where be will,
stay rs long as he chooses, open as many
places Tor the sale OF goods rs he may,
zee lit and enjoy the same measure OF
reedom in regard TO tho conduct Of his
business Us native citizen. But when
10 comes within the State permanently
u temporarily, he is under the protec-
ion OF its laws, and the correlative duty
II obedience rests on him. His rights
ire equal to but not above those Of the
:itizen. U.s,. .Nrr b. sa.
III it is true, as is now asserted, that
he itinerant stranger who treads the
country roads carrying pack or box
illed with sham jewelry and worthless
watches to sell to those who are credu.
ous enough to believe his represents-
ion, for many times their value, and
who as soon as no has gone through
,eighborhood moves quickly out OF
each-if it is true that such person is
| ward OF the Federal Constitution, en-.
jagged in Interstate commerce, with the
'ower OF the Government OF the United
States iuterposed between him and the
,olice power Of the State, it must BIO ad-
nitted that We have stumbled on a
tartling and unlooked.ior result of the
Investment Of the general government
With the power to regulate commerce