Evening star., 1896-07-30
BUSINESS MEMS LEAGUE
A Form Of Campaigning That May Prove
Very Effective.
1t Will Cover the Whole Country and
Reach All Classes for Sound
Money.

Tho campaign for sound money is not
to be left to the exclusive guidance and
control Of the politicians. The proposition
that the question at Issue Is Of a business
rather than of a political complexion Is ac-
cepted, and business men are preparing
to take an earnest and organized part
in the fight. Merchants manufacturers.
tankers brokers, transportation men, all
show a desire to serve the cause, and will
move in their own way to do SO. They
expect to distribute more documents than
the regular campaign committee. More
arguments will be held across business
counters than on stumps. More people
will be reached and addressed in this way
than by the orators employed to spellbind
the multitude In public halls and county
court houses.
Belief That 1t VIII BE Effective.
This project is Of an ambitious character,
and recommends itself strongly to many
leading men. 1t is new, and the belief
is that If properly carried out it will prove
very effective. The question is of pure
ly business nature, and whenever two or
three are gathered together in the matter
Of trade 1t comes up of is own accord.
1t needs no forcing-no by-the-way intro
duction or apology. The merchant offer
Ing for sale pair Of shoes, the manu-
factrrer great bales of goods, the banker
negotiating a loan. the railroad manager
special rates over his line. each naturally
drops into discussion Of the money ques-
ton with his customer. and all may in
that way increase the circulation of the
sound money argument. All will do so.
The arrangements to that end are now in
progress. and by the middle Of August
1t is intmated that the largest and most
widely extended business mems league ever
organized in the United States will be in
existence and at work.
Can Reach All Classes.
The facilities Of the league for reaching
all classes and conditions Of men will be
very great. Every commercial traveller will
become a canvasser. not only for orders, but
in the interests Of sound money. There are
hundreds OF thousands of men so employed
They have their state associations their
clubs, and they exert a good deal Of influ-
ence. Their business takes them into all
Of the small towns and trading points They
travel by rail, by boat, by bicycle by coun-
try wagon. They have the widest acuuaint.
ance with people in every section of the
country. These men. whose interests are
allied with those of their employers. are all
for sound money. Several clubs in the mid
die states have already telegraphed their
congratulations to Mr.. Mckinley. and are at
work for him. and their messages are among
the most highly priced Of all received at
Canton.
The Kind Of Literature.
The literature that the business men will
distribute will not be the regulation politi-
cal literature-the cuttings Of political de-
bates, and all that-but business arguments,
prepared by business men for business con-
sumption. These men feel that from hong
experience they have gotten the hang
Of reaching the everyday man on a busi.
ness proposition that at this time he may
be willing to listen to them when he might
draw back from great orator OF famous
political expounder. At any rate, so con-
vinced are the business men of all grades
and all lines that this is a business mans S
year. and that a great deal depends on his
activity, that they are going to set the pegs
for hard pull, and strong pull, and a pull
altogether. The league will extend from
Maine to Texas, and from New York to Cali
fornia. :.