The herald., 1896-09-27
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS MANI
FESTO.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS MANI
FESTO.
Editor Herald: We enclose you let
ter to the commercial travellers OF the
United States and earnestly request you
to publish the same In full. thereby
giving 1t circulation we cannot hope to
obtain for 1t in any other way.
We are working for a common cause
and the aid we ask you to give US must
be beneficial to you as well as to US. We
were dcsirous that the Associated and
the United Press would at least wire
synopsis of it to their subscribers. put
we learn that they have not done 30: our
committee is q branch Of the national
Democratic committee, regularly ap-
pointed and organized.
Hoping you will give US the assistance
requested, and to receive copy OF the is
sue containing the enclosed letter, we
are, yours very truly,
]. w. JUMP. Chairman.
To the Commercial Travellers Of the
United States:
This committee, acting under the aus
pices and authority of the national DEM
ocratic committee ask your co-opera-
ton in establishing Bryan and Sewall
commercial clubs all throughout the
United States, and will promptly reply
to all correspondence and furnish to
members of such clubs literature in sup
, port of the Democratic platform as re-
Gently adopted at Chicago.
We are particularly interested in the
organization of clubs of wholesale and
retail merchants, manufacturers and
commercial travellers and commercial
and railroad employees.
We believe it to be the case that
among those most seriously and dis
hxrt tIe lpy,e fNf
declining values which we have passed
through are commercial travellers and
their employers, the wholesale mer-
chants and manufacturers, and their
friends and customers, the retail mer-
chants of the country. All interests,
AGRICULTURAL, labor, transportation, etc.,
have been greatly demoralized and de-
pressed, but none more so than mercan-
tile business interests.
We believe that the remedy Is embod-
led In the recommendations of the DEM
ocratic platform and especially in the
re-esta tablishment of bimetallism and
equal rights at the mints of the United
States for both gold and silver.
We know that about so per cent OF the
commercial travellers of the United
States so believe. They have opportun-
tiles to know of the great and versatile
resources of our country and have every
confidence in its power and ability to
sustain at par with gold the entire sill
or supply now In the world If necessary;
and that there Is no need to walt until
foreign nations give their consent for us
to open our mintS to silver.
The surplus crops of this country for
one year only are sufficient to absorb in
payment all the silver money and silver
bullion now mined and on each succeed
ing year we would have even a larger
crop to exchange for more silver which
might be mined.
We believe In paying the bonds and
obligations of this country strictly in
accordance with the contract in coin as
1t Is written and specified In the bonds,
and we do not believe In giving the
bondholder gold and the farmers and
workingmen silver. All should be treat
ed alike. Nor do we believe In discrim-
mating against the debtor class and
compelling that class to pay obligations
in appreciated gold which were given to
be paid in either gold or silver.
We believe that the election of Bryan
and Sewau and a Democratic congress
would bring to this country such an era
OF commercial activity and industry rs
4. has never before experienced, and
that all would prosper from such a re-
suit.
the opposing forces are conducting their
campaign upon the most intolerant and
autocratic lines.
They are not using legitimate argu-
ments and honest, fair and patriotic po-
litical methods, but they call those who
advocate free silver coinage, through a
sincere and honest belief that it would
benefit the country and our people. fools,
oranks, repudiationists and anarchists.
One Of the primary tests of a fool is an
inability to distinguish ones friends
from ones enemies, and by this test the
gullible gold standard supporters who
are permitting themselves to be used
Is tools by the enemies Of this country
are foolish.
They are themselves repudia tionists
because they are trying to have the
contracts of Indebtedness made by ouI
people payable in coin repudiated
against the interest of our own peoplt
and country and paid In gold, which has
heavily increased in value and is con-
stantly increasing, thereby imposing
upon our own people vast increase ol
liabilities and Indebtedness, for which
no consideration has been received. This
would make it appear that the advo-
cate OF gold monometallism are dis
loyal to their own country and people
Their views are affected not by patriot
ism and a love of country. but by greed
and self-interest.
They are themselves the anarchists, ar
they are attempting to override the
free will of the people in order to force
their own selfish and ruinous policies ol
government upon the country, thereby
QfOVlDS LnefneSelVSS TO De enemies Ol
FREQ and enlightened suffrage and a re.
publican form of government, controlled
by the will Of the majority.
We hear rumorS and charges OF dis
charge of employees and intimidation ir
many places, and are now investigating
many of them. Many of these arise from
the acts of railroad managers, who arc
themselves in turn coerced and intim.
dated by foreign bond-holding inter
ests.
There are In nearly every state strong
and effective laws against intimidation
and we would be glad to be informed II
relation to such acts Correspondent,
will be treated with absolute confidence
The law in Missouri Is as follows:
MISSOURI STATUTES, ARTICLE vi
Section 66-If at any election hereaf
ter held in any city any person shall by
force. threat. menace. intimidation
bribery or reward, or offer or promise
thereof. or otherwise unlawfully, eithel
directly or indirectly influence or at
tempt to influence any elector in giving
his vote, or prevent or hinder, or at.
tempt to prevent or hinder. any qualifet
voter from freely exercising the right ci
suffrage, every such person shall, upor
conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty o
felony and shall be punished for each
and every offense by Imprisonment ir
the penitentiary for not less than twe
nor more than five years.
Nearly every state has a similar Law
to that Of Missouri The United States
law upon the subject is as follows:
REVISED STATUTES OF THE
UNITED STATES-SECOND Ed.