The evening times., 1900-10-10
DRUMHERS FOR BRYAN
Commercial Travellers viii Vote
Against the Trusts.
Some of the knights of the Grip Who
Have Been Spared by Monopoly
PerfunetoriIy support Mckinley
and Roosevelt to Retain Their Po-
sitions-wiII Strike With Ballots.

tsNinety-five per cent of the commercial
travellers In the United States and about
one hundred per cent of those men who
were commercial travellers till the oa-rush
Of trusts drove them from the road, will
vote for Bryan and Stevenson is what
commercial traveller said today.
This is in confidence. I have to appear
as a Mckinley man. But I have plenty of
justification for my perfidy. 1 am one of
the few of the once noble army of travel
ing statesmen whose services were eonsid
cred valuable enough to be retained by the
assimiiating combines that wiped out our
old firm. And I've got wife and babies
to support 1 want to hold my job. So 1
say Mckinley and appear to like it be-
fore the trust spies But wait until
get into the election booth.
Wait until the thousands of has been
commercial travellers and the hundreds of
those present (the remnant of a once pow
erfal class get behind the curtain in the
voting place. Won't we swat 'em at
the polisi
~ want to say to every mechanic, every
clerk, every accountant, every motorHfan,
every conductor, every railway train agent,
every iaborer, and every man who works
for monopoly. play your part. keep your
own council and then-'Swat 'em at the
pelis
Ten years ago il was estimated that
10000 travelling men were employed in
the United States. This class of men put
more money in circulation than any other.
II IS conservative to say that the salary
ann expenses of these men amounted to
svsrage of SIS per day for each. That
means S9s0. coo daily, or $2SS. 900 for
the 500 working days of the year
.Si'ae trusts have reduced the number of
travelling men during the last ten years
uEtli there is less than 10000 of us left.
Nearly all of this has been accomplished
since Mr.. Hanna became President of the
United States. The American Tobacco
Company alone, according to the chair
man OF the national committee of the
commercial travellers, put 5000 Of US out
Of the running
$50 | say, Swat EN- at the polls. broth
er travellers.
In few months. or year or two at
least, unless the march of trade COM
bination is stayed, there will be less than
5000 travelling statesmen left TO tell the
tale The whole tendency of the COM
mercial combine is TO transact business
IN the cheapest way possible-and that is
by Irsil
Every merchant knows this; every
travelling salesman knows il, and there
living in this country today. If there be
any class OF citizens in the country VINO
should vote to down Mr.. Hanna it is the
travelling statesmen, both those now en-
ployed and those who have been forced
out of employment And what applies to
the travellers applies in greater or less
degree to every employe OF commercial
trusts
IF anybody doubts what I say let him
peruse the following partial list of trusts,
together with the number Of concerns
they have put out OF business, and which
is -aached for by the National Demo-
craze Committee of Commercial Travel
ers at ST Louis and has never been dis
puted:
ArsarieaH Agricultural Chemical Company
fertilizer pants1 .-..---.-.-...-..-..-.. q
American Automatic Weighing Machine Com
pany 4conceFTs) ---------------- 3
American Ak and Tool Company (plantsJ...,. 10
American Bicycle Company (pl4ntsl ........-. IS
American Chieie Company tchewing gum
PiEntSl D
American Cotton Oh Company properties. . I23
American Hide and Leather Company (eon-
American Linseea oil Company (p,ants) ..... 81
American Mating Company (concernsl ...--.- 81
American Sewer Pipe Company (plants) .-...- 81
American Thread Company CplaHts) -.-....... I3
American Tinp!ate Company (nilis) -.---.---- asf
American Type Founders Company ICON
American Window Glass Company (per cent
,naer; 0a an W-it;ns p.rer 6on,,,snv icon 81
Asphait Company Of America (per cent of
am :, =: 81, -, % %
International Paper Company (pIants)--...... 80
International Silver Company (plate con-
ceFHs1 - - u
(niis. 90 per cent OF aiD iD---.-----.-.------ Ii
Mount yeEnon-W WeodbeTry Cotton Duck Gem
pany (pIills. 90 per cent OF ali).-.......... II
National Lead Company (plants)- s)-.--..--..-.. IS
cent Of all 90
National Starch Manufacturing Company
(coaceTaS) ~
National Tube Company (eonecrns) ..-..... II
National Wall Paper Company (concerns).... 80
Otis (Passenger1 Elevator Company (eon-
ps eerhsa r. ~; So; ;oor; I.onoa-- %
Standard Metal Company, journal bear
ings fconcerns}- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 10
Union Bag and Paper Company 6Per cent of
alb ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
Union Steel and Chain Company (properties). as
United Fruit Company (eoEeeFnsl .----------- u
United States Envelope Company (eonceTns}.. 10
United States Flour Millirg Company (big
United States Worsted Mills largest mills)-.. 10
In addition to the foregoing are the
following, which absorbed nearly all of
their competitors, the actual number of
which l have not at hand just now.
American Car and Foundry Company.
American Cement Company
American Edible Nut Company.
American Felt Company.
American Fisheries Company.
American Glue Company.
American Iron and Steel Company.
American Lithograph Company.
American Ordnance Company.
American Radiator Company
A:aerican School Furniture Company
American Silk Manufacturing Company.
American Soda Fountain Company.
American Smelling and Refining Company.
American Steel and Wire Company
American Steel Casting Company.
American Sjeei 80 Company.
American Sttawboart Company.
American Sugar Refining Company.
American Switch Company.
American Tobacco Company.
American Woolen Company.
California Fruit Gamers Association
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company.
Continental CemeHt Company
diamond Match Company.
Electric Boat Company
Electric Vehicle Company
Glucose Sugar Refining Company
Havana American Company.
/ international Automobile and Vehicle Tire Com
par.-
international Car Wheel Company.
international Heater Company.
International Steam Pump Company
Kodak Limited Company.
Manhattan Spirit Company.
National biscuit Company
National Casket Company
National Glass Company.
National Saw Company.
National Screw Company.
National Shear Company.
New England Cotton Yarn Company.
Pacific American Fish Company.