The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-22
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER AND
BANKER.

! Sunday mornings issue. That of Judge
Siuss was not obtaiuable. The following
delivered by NJ. ". Levy, Esq, president
of the Wichita National bank, is too good
to be lost:
| "Gentlemen with the Grip. and without It.
ITO me has been assigned the most de-
| liGhtfui duty of responding to the toast of
| Our Guests which am happy to inform
you consists of your noble selves.
''The relation between the banker and
the commercial pilgrim is close and of a
most confidential nature. The credit of
his customer Is generally based or the in
formation derived from his friend the
| local banker. / trust, therefore, that
whatever may say to you or OF you to-
night will be held strictly confidential
and per cent off is the extreme discount
that will be given under any circum-
stances. and even these terms do not APP
| ply to election bets or poker chips.
"There is an affinity between your
avocatlon and niue. Beth are founded
and maintained by the confidence We in
spire Ia the community where we operate.
| Your customer relies on your integrity,
| rectltude and consciousness, for the
truth of the representations you make re-
, laring to the quality of the goods sold. He
| requires of you and holds you to the
! strictest accountability for the proper full
| fillment of contracts made with him, to an
equal extent that depositor In n bank
relies on the security of his funds on the
honesty and reputation OF the officials Of
the financial institution.
Our callipgs are both of ancient date.
Mine originated when the Lord made a
| sight draft on Adam for a rib, wherewith
TO construct partner for Adams Express
| company (No stock on the markell.
This transaction was completed on tho
Bank OF Euphrates.
Shortly after this event Noah construct
| ed Il sample Case made of gopher wood
pitched within and without. He was the
father of triplets, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
all born at different times; and when he
became grandfather he established the
precedent which is followed on such occa-
sions by many to this day, namely, paint
ing the old town rich carmine hue, and
awakening in the morning with Il severe
headache; mayhap some of you may know
how 1T is yourself.
When Noah started ont on his trip he
filed his three-story saratoga with sam
plies of all living things 1t is susceptible
of proof strong as holy writ that every
time he drew be got pair until he had a
'fulFark flush to the deck, and when he
saw the flood raised" caused every one
to drop out" Noah evidently was no
novice at the business, for history informs
us that he succeeded in slipping in con-
pie Of elephant trunks without paying for
extra baggage.
King Solomon had the utmost conf
dencce in your fraternity. Wnen any of
his favorite friends desired to travel he
furnished them with pass token, and
grips" to carry their baggage in.
The commercial traveller belongs to no
one country, sex, sect or religion. He is
Omnipresent. In the frozen zone or ia the
tropics in darkest Africa, or Greenland's
Icy Mountains, from the Great l. tkes to
the Dead Sea, from the Golden Horn to
Japan, from alpha to Omaha, upon
every sea or river wherever human habi-
tation has found n Judgment, there will he
be Also Were the facts recorded it wonld
he made manifest that when Christopher
Columbus brought tAmerica over to
this country the first person he
met on landing was representative Of a
fruit house who had samples Of the finest
stock of new-CrOp chestnuts Ia the market.
and for every purchase of hand organ
with a monkey attachment his house pre-
sented the buyer with a patent double
action Maccaroni photographic peanut
rooster.
"Why sir, within the past month ! met
gentleman OF your profession who wit
messed the landing Of the Pilgrim Fathers
on Plymouth Rock; and he sold them in
meat for Thanksgiving Day pumpkin
pudding. l should have decidedly donbt-
ed the veracity of this statement had it
not emenated from the man who made the
sale and who offered in consideration of a
good cigar to show me the original order
Should | be asked to name the profess
sion having within its ranks the highest
type of physical manhood, the representa-
tion of The Appolo Belvidere the most in
teilectual minds, the most interchangeable
laborers, the most unselfish aud self sacri-
ficing spirits, the most urbane and polite,
the most patriotic, The most charitable,
should uDhesitaiingly and unequIvocabiy
reply, the American commercial traveller.
The intellectual attributes of Shake
speare's mind are encompassed by you
Poetry for your own entertainment and
that of your friends. Your duties as col
lectors requires a knowledge of law, your
physical needs. that of medicine, your re-
ligious tendencies, that of the Gospel;
your contact with all CHASER, metaphys-
les. For the obstreperous VINO refuse all
your Establishment TO purchase, the kuowl
edge of warfare is indispensable.
You gentlemen OF the grip have your
vices and your virtues. The latter largely
predomuate. The greatest of the former
is your inordinate modesty, and your eX
cessive fear that in your enthusiasm you
might vary from the strictest line of truth
III RECOMMENDING your WRITES, ana your ue-
hesitation of being forced to carry on a fir |
tation shou,d one be thrust upon you
when off your usual guard against such
calamity >-
within your body we find the most |
charitable ana severest critics. To you, |
all the worlds a stage Tragedy and |
comedy, tears and smiles are interviewer |
with your daily life The efferyescent aud |
buoyaut spirit of the commercial traveller |
ia IA pin He = nlnfoprat and |
democrat. He calls no man his superior. |
and none beneath his notice. He mixes |
his politics as he does his drinks Whether |
his congressional candidate is Tom, or
Jerry, is immaterial to him; if compelled |
TO make a selection he will combine the |
two. In peace as In war be is OF heroic
mold. A midnight wreck or burning |
hotel with all its concomtant horrors |
finds him foremost in the labor of rescue; |
seeking none, and accepting no reward, |
save that Of his own seif-respect. Show |
me "A crowded street car and the first to |
arise TO offer his seat TO age or sex Will be |
a drummer. In politics he is wise as n
serpent and harmless as dove. but Otis |
sau to think what a commercial tramp |
can accomplish when he SO iisl eth.
Children have a natural in-
stiuct for the good and true. Many |
and many time have | seen a toddling
babe with faitering steps make its way TO
one OF your calling, reach out its little |
hands with implicit confidence TO be taken
10y one whom II had never seen before aud |
with full faith and confidence nestle Its
head on the sheiteging breast. and with
soulful trust sleep the slumbrr of innocent
childhood The widows weeds aud the
orphan appeals find no more responsive
chord IN any rank than yours. Aud the
sacred name of home. wife, mother or
sweetheart is ever uppermost in his heart
and his mind.
As a philosopher, mentor and guide he
stands forth pre-eminently unrivaled and
uneQualed. When in 4 strange town. uu-