The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-09
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
Omaha Mnrld-Herald,


In the campaign of 1896 Republican
organs were very glad to have the
support of the commercial travellers,
and they pointed with pride to the fact
that the large majority of that great
body of men was giving ardent sup
port to Mckinley and national honor"
1t was pointed out repeatedly that these
men gave Mckinley their support be-
cause they realized that the election or
Mckinley meant prosperity and that
upon Mckinley's election depended the
retention of their jobs. But things
have changed. Mckinley has served
out more than one-half of his term,
and because under his administration
trusts have accumulated many of the
commercial travellers find themselves
out os work.
The Lincoln Journal boldly espouses
the cause of the trusts, and admitting
that these organizations tend to drive
the commercial traveller out of business.
declares that it is good thing. and
that public interests will be benefited
The commercial traveller" says the
Lincoln Journal lis an excellent fell
low but he viii have to adapt himself
10 the step of the worlds procession
just as the rest of us are compelled to
do from time to time as the music
changes
1t will probably occur to a great
many commercial travellers that the
music has been changing altogether too
rapidly of late and some Of them who
realize that the trust policy is against
their individual interests, as well as
antagonistic to public interests, may
conclude that the time has come when
we should have q new musician; a
musician who will not ask us to keep
step with tunes that are entirely for
eign to this country and It's institu-
tons; 4 musician that will provide Us
with the old-time step, VITA a dance
not so complicated in its features, not
so fashionable in its characte- that the
participants must be limited 70 a select
few
The Lincoln Journal justifies the trust
on this ground:
IF they enable the business of a
community TO be done by fewer hands
at lower charges for the expense Of
handling and carrying them from the
producer to the consumer, TO kick
against them is to merely repeat the
old but now obsolete objections against
labor-saving machinery
And 10 the commercial traveller it
offers this consolation:
The commercial traveller, like the
teamster, the sickle wielder, the hand
loom operator and the woman With
her spinning wheel, will soon find
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even better and will reduce. with the
others, the cost of the luXuries and 1e-
cessities of his home and have bet
ter time altogether"
The Lincoln Journal should explain
to the commercial traveller how re may
have hope he will soon find something
else to DO that will pay him even bet
ter under a condition when, in the
Journals own words. the business OF
a community is to be done by fewer
hands at lower charges"
There is no body of men more in
fiuential than the commercial travellers.
In the campaign of 1896 many of them
realized the tendency of the Republican
party and lined up with the Democracy,
but it is true that the majority. many
of whom were governed in their opin-
ions by their environment, adhered to
the Republican party, and it cannot
be doubted that the work of these men
secured for that party many thousands
of votes.
Their eyes have been opened, and
while some of them were deceived by
the promises of 1896, Republican organs
will not find many of them foolish
enough 10 believe that it is to their in
terest to give support and encourage
ment to system that drives them out
Of business. that destroys competition
and that enables the business of COM
to be done by fewer hands at
lower charges"