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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
DRUMMERs AND THE TRUSTS

No one needs to be told how closely con-
nected with the commercial life of the
country the travelling salesmen-the drum
mers-have become. Drummers are prov
erbially hustling, wide-awake business
men. having a keen insight into human
nature and an all-absorbing desire to sell.
They are personally big-hearted fellows,
good company and liberal spenders. They
are among the most welcome
guests at the hotels, in both city and
country, and a constant source OF revenue
to livery stables and hackmen. Every
transportation line is patronized by
the drummers. The amount they
year foots up millions of dollars. The
hotels, the boarding houses, the horse
owners, the drivers, the porters, the news
boys and the bootblacks considered to-
gether collect many other millions of dol
lars from the drummers
From this brief statement II can be
seen that if the drummers were eliminated
they would be missed, badly missed. by
great many persons including the mer-
chants to whom they now afford the bene-
fits of close competition.
Wei, the very existence of the drummer
is threatened. President Dove, of the
Commercial Travellers National League,
told the Congressional Industrial Commits
sion at Washington the other day. regard
ing the effect of trusts upon commercial
travellers that: "It is a case of $50, 1000
men fighting for their very existence as
a body of expert business men; and they
are fully alive 20 the seriousness of the
situation" The $4,000 drummers of the
country. Mr.. Dove asserted, "spend So
100000 a day." among the railroads and
the various enterprises which they patron
| ize.
When a trust consolidates into one say
| forty separate factories or other business
houses, each maintaining a set of sales
men, the need for thirty-nine of the sets
disappears, and the one set covers the
| territory with a hard-and-fast scale of
! prices, which the merchants must pay.
| Indeed, some of the trusts do not retain
even one set of drummers; they are all
DISCHARGED since the trust controls the
particular commodity which they have
been selling. and persons who wish il
must go TO the trust for it. The trust
doesn't have to" sent out drummers
And when a consolidation takes place
and a hundred more drummers are
thrown out of employment, the thousands
Of dollars which they have been In the
habit of scattering about over their routes
are shut off from those who have been
receiving them. This money. however,
does not remain in the pockets of the con-
sumers; prices of commodities do not go
down as the cost Of producing and mar
keting trust productions decreases. The
| millions which the drummers have here
tofore distributed will go into the Golfers
| of the trusts.
The destructive onslaught of the trusts
upon the drummers is not matter of the
| future. but of the present. 1t is going on
every day. Each dispatch In the daily
news reports telling Of another new trust
organized under the laws of New jersey
(or any other state for that matter though
New Jersey is the worst sinner ia the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
A FOURTH FOR FTDDLERs.

The forthcoming Fourth of July prom
ises to be made memorable in Dyer coun-
tY Tennessee. They are going to hold at
of "old-time fiddlers," and ex-Gov. Bob
Taylor-'lang may his elbuck jink and
dddle'-is going to be there to take part
in the exercises. Arrangements for che
great event are under the charge of "the
enterprising Mr.. Stump Brackin," accord
ing to the Dyer County Herald which
goes on to say that everybody is invited
and should attend" and that among those
who viii certainly be there are some
blind, some lame, some bald-headed, ana
some of all ages, none of whom know a
printed note from fence rail. yet all OF
whom know how to get next TO natures
heart and rob the fiddle of its sweetest
harmony"
That is 10 say,-there will not be 'vio-
llnist" in the lot but just fiddlers. Note
books and sheet music will be unknown.
as will also fantasies, rhapsodes and
other such swell names as "violinists" af-
feet for the tunes they play. But there
win be real music. plenty of it, and Of
the fetchingest kind. What man is there
with s9uj SO dead who never to himself
hath said, when he heard Share I'm"
played by an energetic and tireless old
time fiddler. by Jings, I feel just like
dancin!" And that will be one of the
tunes of the Dyersburg convention. To
keep it company there will be also Got
ton-eyed Jo' Dance the Peavine."
Sugar John. the Baby" Georgia Gals.
Money Musk old Uncle Ned" and a
long list of similar time honored airs which
every old-timer has in his repertory
Likewise there will be an entire absence
of spike-tai.ed coats, champagne and pates
de fole gras. But nobody will miss them.
II will be in order for anyone who wishes
TO do so to take off his coat and make him
self at ease. and the inner man will be re-
called with barbecued meat, cornbread and
pies of all sorts. to be washed down with
gallons of the finest buttermilk in Tonnes
see. il would be queer American who
could not enter into the spirit OF such
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

From the Chicago Times Herald.
I Wisht at I'd been here when
My paw he was a boy;
They must of been excitement then
When my paw was a boy;
In school he always took the. prize,
He used to lick boys twice his size
l bet folks all had bulgin' eyes
When my paw was a boy.
There was a lot of wonders done
When my paw was a boy;
How grandpa must have loved his son,
When my paw was a boy
He'd git the coal and chop the wood,
And think up every way he could
To always jist be sweet and good
When my paw was a boy.
Then everything was in its place,
When my paw was a boy;
How he could rassle, jump and race,
When my paw was a boy!
He never, never disobeyed;
lie beat In every game he played
Gee! What a record they was made!
When my paw was a boy!
1 wisht at I'd been here when
My paw he was a boy;
They'll never be his like agen-
Paw was the noodle boy,
But still last night l heard my nav
Raise up her voice and call my paw
The worst fool that she ever saw
He ought of stayed a boy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

country) means that 100 or more drum
mers' heads have been or will be cut off.
The chair trust threw coo men out OF en-
ployment. The American Steel combina-
tion, according to Mr.. Dove, caused the
discharge Of 800 travellers in one day from
one house taken into the combination.
The tobacco deal cost $50 men their posi-
tons at one time.
These facts and figures are sufficient
TO show why every drummer should be a
Democrat in the next campaign, since
the trust is the creature Of iniquitous Re
publican tariff legislation, which the Re
publican party will not repeal, and
why the railroads and the merchants
and the hotel keepers and others should
combine with the drummers 10 smash
trusts and overthrow the party re
sponsible for them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
THE DEMOCRATIC BATTLE CRY.

The Times Herald of Chicago has under
taken to find out what the members Of
the Democratic national committee think
will be the issues which the Democratic
party viii present to the people in the
campaign of 1900. II the members Of this
committee fairy represent the sentiments
Of the party it is evident that silver will
be leading issue, though not an issue
to the extent It was in the last national
campaign. Only one of them favors drop
ping silver altogether, though several of
them seem to be satisfied that 1t would
be advisable 90 make opposition to trusts
more prominent than the demand for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio OF 16 to /.
At this time it seems safe TO say, judg-
ing from the expressions Of these com
mitteemen that the Chicago platform will
be reafiirmed. with additional planks con
demning trusts and the policy of the ad-
mlnistraton in respect to the Philippines.
OF course the situation in the Philippines
may undergo such a change before the
meeting of the national convention that
The declaration relative to these islands
will be very different from what It would
be if it We're framed at this time. There
is undoubtedly, however a strong feeling
among the members of the committee ana
in the party against militarism and impe-
rialism. But it may not be strong enough
to shape the policy of the party.
1t is evident from what some Of the COM
mitteemen say. and from the expressions
of Democratic leaders outside of the com
mittee, that a strong effort will be made
in the national convention to push silver
into the background. This could be done
by demanding free and unlimited silver
coinage without insisting upon the ratio
of 10 to /, but there is nothing in sight as
yet 10 justify the opinion that IL would
be successful. Mr.. Bryan seems to be
the choice of the party for the nomination
for President, and he couldn't consistently
accept the nomination on platform which
didn't demand silver at that ratio.
Several of the members of the commit
tee declined 90 commit themselves on the
questions asked by the Times Herald.
Their refusal to express opinions would
seem to Indicate that they are not yet
satisfied as to what the battle cry of the
democracy will be in 1900. In fact. this
uncertainty crops out in some of the re-
sponses to the Times-EIeralds questions.
That there will be opportunities for great
changes in public sentiment on public
questions before the arrival of the time
of the meeting of the national convention
there can be no doubt. Hence, it is not
TO be wondered at that some Of the mem
bers of the committee hesitated to ex-
press opinions as to what the next Demo-
cratic platform will contain, nor is it to
be understood that those who spoke frank
ly didn't do so with the unders landing that
their views might be modified by SUISSE
quent developments.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
A TALKING coMMIssIoNER.


Mr.. Lewis NJ. Haupt Is in danger of los
ing his position as a member of the com
mission recently appointed by the Presi-
dent 10 determine whether the United
States ought TO build the Nicaragua canal
or assist in finishing the Panama canal. It
seems that he has been talking too much.
He is quoted as saying in an interview a
few days ago that this new commission
is simply another game of procrasdna-
ton, brought about by the allied opposi-
ton to the United States getting possess
sion of a short route to the Far East"
All of the opposition, however, is not try
ing to prevent the United States from get
ting a short route TO the Far East. Even
Mr. Haupt admits that. He says that the
opposition is composed of the transconu-
mental railways which are afraid that the
canal would ruin their business, and Eng
land whose trade with the Far East is
very great. and who thinks if the canal
were built she would lose some of that
trade.
ragua canal howeveris the Panama Canal
Company. That company want to saddle
the cost of building their canal on the
United States. They haven't sufficient mon
ey 10 build 1t themselves, and they can't
get it from Frenchmen. They expect, how
over. that if the United States should fur
nish the money France would own and con-
troll the canal. With all OF this opposition
Mr.. Haupt seems to think that the out
look for the building of the Nicaragua can
al isn't very promising.
The impression all along has been that
England has no objection to either the
Nicaragua or the Panama canal, but If
what Mr.. Haupt says is correct she is us
ing her influence against both of them. He
says that English capitalists have been
trying for a long time to get possession of
the mouth of the San Juan river. so as to
block the building of the Nicaragua canal
There may be truth in what Mr. Haupt
says. 1t is certain that the friends of the
Nicaragua canal are having great deal
of opposition. The impression, however,
which was created by the action of the
last Congress was that there was still
doubt of the feasibility of the Nicaragua
canal route, and that if it could be built it
would cost a great deal more than the
amount estimated by the Walker commits
sion. For these reasons 81 100000 was APP
propriated for a thorough investigation of
both the Nicaragua and the Panama
routes, with the view of ascertaining which
was the more feasible one and the cost
of each. To get this information a COM
mission was authorized. OF this commits
sion Mr. Haupt is a member.
II is known probably that he favors the
Nicaragua route. There is perhaps no OBJ
lection to him as a commissioner on that
account, but If he expressed the views at
tributed TO him in the interview in ques-
ton he has practically disqualified himself
for the work he mas been appointed TO do
Any report which he assisted in making
would be attacked in Congress If it were
admitted that he accepted a place on the
commission holding the opinion that it was
nothing more than factor in a game 10
prevent the construction of the Nicaragua
canal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

At the recent Unitarian festival in Bos-
ton Secretary Long told this story: Dur
ing the winter l went with the presiden-
tial party TO Savannah, where we were
most kindly and courteously received.
Everything was done to make the visit
pleasant. On Saturday afternoon we We're
taken down the river, and on returning
the chairman of arrangements said: To
morrow IS Sunday, and you will have the
day to yourselves. We have all sorts of
churches in Savannah, and you can go
wherever you wish Wen said the
President, I am a Methodist and 1 think
I win so 10 the Methodist Church After
the others had expressed their choice. l
said, Have you some little, struggling
was his reply, but We have a rundown
Episcopal Church that is almost as had ;
did not accept the invitation for | want
ed the pure, unadulterated badness of
our own denomination"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
CIaimed by Chicago.

Chicago beats the world" announced
the tall, slim travelling man after he had
taken late lunch il the hotel cafe, says
the Detroit Free Press. 1t claims every
thing and comedies nothing. A novice
would be made to think over there that
Chicago exploited the universe, stocked
il, watered the stock, issued half a dozen
series of bonds and run it ever since.
what do you think l went up against
in that town last winter? L was coming
out of one of the theaters when a cadaV-
erous-looking genius with ten-inch hair
asked me if 1 was a lawyer. l humored
him to learn what his game was Well,
SIR he continued you have chance TO
make a fortune You have seen this play,
strong on the stage and strong In the box
office. It's superb yet It's a bald-faced,
unmitigated, cold-blooded plagiarism.
wrote it, every word of it. Not a situa-
ton, climax or sentence is changed. Go
after the author for damages and I'll
give you half.
Il lodged through the crowd ahead of
US and made my escape"
what was the play?"
" THE Rivals -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

observation-disclosures Chapter No g. r. A.
M; Golden Rue Lodge No. y, I. O. o. f.
Special Nouces-Dividend No. a. the
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company;
Dolls Day for Wei Kid at Byck Bros. ;
Ship Notices, Strachan & Co, Consignees;
Notice TO City Court Jurors; Vegeta bles
Just Gathered, at Gardners To-day; So
Easy Helmken's Cafe; Notice to Superior
Court Jurors; A Chance for Summer
Home on Wilmington Island at Small
Cost, C. H. Dorset, Auctioneer; Whining
ton Island Lots at Auction, c. II. Dor
sett, Aucrioneer
How to Get Rich-C. H. Dorset.
Business Nouces-Shakespeare, Artie.
lie Panic and La Carolta Cigars.
Beef-Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Rex Vienna Sausage-Cudahy Packing
Company.
A Rauier-Byck Bros
A Crash Is a Good Thing-M S. Brown
Mineral Water-Apolinaris.
Amusements-The Brinkley Opera Com
pany at Matinee and Night.
Legal Sale-Receiver's Sale, Estate J. s.
Bailey.
Postum Cereal Cohee-Postum Cereal
Company.
Observation-Disclosures Summer Resorts,
L. Boyer's Sons, Publishers, Philadelphia.
Perfume-Murray & Lanman's Florida
Water.
Sauce-Lea & PERKINS, Worcestershire
Sauce.
Legal Notices-Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate Nancy Bryan, Deceased;
Petition for Incorporation The Pine Apple
Growers Company; Notice TO Debtors and
Creditors, Estate Cassandra o. Airs. De-
ceased.
Medical-Munyons Liver Cure; Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Castorla; Gu
ticura Remedies; DR.. Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy; b. b. B.; Duhys Pure Malt
Whisky; Sloats Vegetable Bitters.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

According, to Senator Allison of Iowa,
the Western political leaders think the
Vice Presidential nomination Twill come
West next timer" That may be taken TO
mean that the leaders are laying pipe to
make 1t come West next time" Do the
Westerners want everything? They now
have the Presidency, and they have got
a cinch on the speakership and will prob
ably get most of the good committee
chatrmanships
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

A London cable says that recently a
publisher of that city by the name OF
Sands announced his intention of collect
ing and publishing Mr.. Ambassador
Choate's bon mots and anecdotes in book
to be called "Choate's Jest Book" But
Mr.. Choate expostulated. with the result
that the book was suppressed. Our am
bassador to the Court of st. James had no
Joe Miller.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

The Electrical Review announces that
committee has selected the name OF
''electromobile" in the place of "automo-
bile for those horseless carriages which
are driven by electricity The new name.
however, does not supply the want 1t Is
less satisfactory than the name which is
proposed 10 be discarded, for the reason
that all horseless carriages are not cleo
trieally propelled. and name is needed
which will cover the whole class without
distinction Of means of propulsion. II
"electromobile" were to be adopted. il
would be necessary TO have other names
for the machines driven by gas, gasoline.
compressed air. petroleum and possibly
other powers yet 10 be developed. No
"electromobile" win not do. Automobile"
Is the besi general term SO far discovered
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

A woman's club in Kansas has decided
that its members shall wear divided skirts
during the stormy season, when the wind
blows something like thirty-five miles or
more an hour. and to recommend that
other women who may not possess divided
skirts wear trousers, the same as their
fathers and brothers. These Kansas wo-
men evidently think that it is best to
give the wind an unimpeded sweep
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Under the new navy personnel bill Ad-
miral Dewey will receive a salary of $13, 800
per annum. The senior rear admirals'
pay is $500 at sea and $6,375 ashore.
mirals' pay is s. 800 at sea and 81, 675 ashore.
Sampson is in this list. Schley has been
assigned to shore duty, hence will receive
the minimum pay of his class. Sampson,
having an assignment at sea, will receive
the maximum of his class.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Speaking of the prize fight in New York
q contemporary recalls the fact that tho
Hon. William Court Gully, speaker of the
British House Of Commons. is the son OF
prize fighter. His father, John Gully.
was butcher. and afterwards prize
fighter. and seems to have made money
from each business.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Appling county, Georgia, and Horny
county, South Carolina, are receiving spe-
cial notice from the press of the country
at large because recently each has sue
cessfully resisted mob lawlessness and
the courts. These Incidents of the tri-
umph of law and order are especially val
liable object lessons at this time, when
the mob spirit seems TO be abroad in the
land, even in such staid commemorative
as Maine, Vermont, Connecticut New
York and Pennsylvania.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Mob regulators of religion in Maine the
other day tarred and feathered a preacher
whose preaching they did not like. Mob
regulators of morals at West Berlin, Vt,
CARED and feathered Lothario whose dove
making they objected to, on Sunday night
last. Mob government seems 10 be rather
popular in New England these days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

The Savannah yacht Dragon has a hard
proposition to go up against in the race
the Charleston yachtsmen crackajacks at
the sport, but they have good boats and
know to perfection every foot and fathom
of the course they viii sail over. There
rent from the Cooper river stake boat to
the sea buoy but is as familiar to them
as is the High Battery promenade. How
ever. we have confidence in the Savannah
craft and her excellent personnel, and
hope to see them beat "our friends, the
enemy" on their own course.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

There is a story afloat in Detroit which
says that Pingree is going to retire from
politics. Has the Mole ST. Nicholas cor
respondent entered Michigan journalism?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Inventors of automobiles TO be used
in Paris will have to study with great
care the regulations issued by the minister
of public works, which enumerates ali
sorts of requirements that the vehicles
must fulfil. They must be so constructed
as not to allow any matter to escene
which might cause explosions or cause
any unpleasant smell. They must also be
made so as not TO brighten horses The
be so arranged that the driver can work
them without taking his eye off the route
he is following The carriages must be
view ahead. and the various gauges. etc
must be so placed that they are liz m
after dark. Every vehicle must be pro-
vided with TWO distinct systems Of brakes
each capable of shutting off automaticoI,
~ the motive force OF the motor ana
bringing it under instant control.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Richard Croker has helped to make
mark at which he might throw stones