Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-04-22
A DRUMMER'S VIEWS
The Commercial Travellers
Falling in Line for Bryan

Falling in Line for Bryan
A commercial traveller who recently
passed through Carson thus expressed
himself to the APPEAL:
"a great change has come over the
commercial travellers during the past
year. We were for Mckinley almost
to man, and now we are for Bryan 10
the same proportion.
''Silver question I suppose. .
''No, not 80 much that as the trusts.
The com bination of the big houses has
caused them to need less men on the
road At least thirty thousand OF the
Commercial Travellers Association
have been thrown out of employment
This means also that they can get
along with less bookkeepers and less
statesmen. and in all at least one hun
bred thousand have been relieved of
their places.
Nov, lot of drummers hu,tling
about the country spending at least
ten dollars day for hotels, livery
teams, saloons, etc, means consider
able money distributed. The drumm
er pays cash, wants the best and never
haggles over prices. Ten or fifteen
drummers every month going through
small country town means much
more than only two O.. three.
! n
the wing now, and if this thing keeps
up YOU will see less. OF course, as we
circulate about a good deal we talk
more or less politics and we know what
is going on. The farmers are all kick
ing over the tremendous raise in nails,
hard ware. barbed wire and such things.
Over one hundred per cent. That's a
terrible raise and they blame the pres
ent Administration. | was talking
with man last week who represents 4
large San Francisco paper house. He
says the paper trust has caused an ad
vance of about sixty per cent in paper
and that the worst kickers he meets
are the Republican publishers. The
Democrats take their medicine anG
DON t say much, as the raise gives then
a chance to laugh at the Republican
papers that supported Mckinley. Bu'
the Mckinley papers think that it wa:
somew hat unkind for the Republican
party to use them to get into power
and then force prices up so on paper
They say that if it keeps up it vii
, make free traders of them. Oh, bu
they are roaring good and hard.
Then, strangely enough, the bank
ers are beginning to kick. Where
: dozen checks used to be drawn through
) their banks one does now. The con
centrating process goes all down tn
line and the small banks are begin
ming to feel the pinch and they trace
: to the trust system that has grown u
:. under the high tariff
"Well, my house sent a drumme
: down to the Philippines and he go
, back few days ago. He reports
$ queer state of affairs down there Tn
s L. S. government is pouring million
: of money into the islands to keep u
the war and the money is going RICH
. over to England and Germany. Jus
d think of that. The natives can trad
k cheaper on nearly everything by deal
: ing with those countries, and wher
j. they can t they give them their trad
anyhow. Americans offer certain line
of goods cheaper than the other n;
II tons, but the natives don't like tn
1t way they have been treated by til
l. Americans and won't give them trat
rs if they can avoid it. This militaI
20 trade expansion isn't exactly what it
- cracked Up to be.