Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-09-20

stock-watering evil along with the trust
"magnate" and the promoter. He is get
ting down on the earth again. Some of
the trusts in which he invested have even
gone to pieces. They were badly con-
ceived and badly managed. They couldn't
hold together. They didn't "do business"
on business basis.
There ~--aas nc reason why they should
expect to hold together. Perhaps there
we're too many purely ornamental per-
sons in the offices with high salaries.
Perhaps there were too many sons and
nephews of "the president" who sat
around looking handsome-and thinking
that there was no other task Of impor-
lance connected with their job. What
ever the cause, the badly organized and
badly managed trust has gone to pieces
or is going. Nothing can help it, II 1t
can't help itself So, too, the people are
realizing that the problem is economic
after all, that no person, nor any party,
Is to blame for this condition Of things
nor, in fact, that any person, or party.
or policy can prevent the good ones from
succeeding, can prevent the bad ones
from failing.
l.
Of the more or less handsome nephew Of
"the president" He has got to be up to
his job or he can't stay. 1t isn't enough
for him to succeed in his new position in
doing the same old things that he used
to do in the old one. There is new study
for him, new problems; buying, handling
the labor situation, selling the product
at a profit, studying the worlds mar
kets.
All this he has got to do because 1t has
got to be done; and If he hasn't the in
clination or the brains to do ii. you can
wager your last dollar at the risk of
walking from Kokomo TO kankakee that
neither the President nor any one else
will keep him in. That is why it Is the
worst kind of fol-de-rol, unworthy Of
anybody as intelligent as the Great
american Traveller, to pretend that there
are no opportunities in manufacturing
and trade now, and especially none for
young men.
Fudge!
There was never so good chance for
brains. and good health. and sobriety
and acumen, and vitality. Have these
things and capital must have you. And
| il it must have you it must pay you. The
| larger the corporation, the more impor
tant in it is the man. There are just as
| many large corporations now as there
were small ones before. As many bis
men are required as there were small
ones required before. What these so
called magnates want is somebody who
can do the work. Price is no object il
they can depend upon you. You can
strike a $4,000 position all at once. 70,
have got to show that you are worth 81,
600, or 1000. or $1,000. 1t is the sam,
old climb as il always has been: there i
| the same old ladder to go up by, and thu
same old persimmon when you get to thu
top round-and the same old persimmons
| too, all the way up at all the rounds.
| All this seems pretty long unless j
also seems to have some bearing upoi
the drummer question. | don't know
whether you ever thought Of it or not
but many different causes have been op
Grating in the last few years TO throw
commercial travellers out of work. Man
ufacturers have sought TO eliminate com
mission men, who must have laid off
good many of their travellers. The cata
logue houses. sO-called, those doing bust
ness direct with the consumer by mean
of catalogues and other printed matter
have grown enormously. They have lai
off drummers-if they ever had them; an
one of the reasons why they can sell S
cheaply to the consumer is that one ele
ment OF selling expense, the drumming
is eliminated. Any house that CORE
spends extensively, that takes care wit
its correspondence, by Just so niue
makes the selling easy; and il the. pre-
cess were kept up long enough, thi