The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-24
TRUSTS THE MAIN issue
Commercial Travellers. Hotel Men
and Coupon Agents for Bryan.
Combinations of Capital in Restraint
OF Trade Have Reduced Their
Earnings or Driven Them OUT OF
acknowledgements Literature to
negative Manderson's Statements.

The address which ex-senator Mander-
son recently delivered in the presence Of
the graduating class at the Military Acad-
envy at West Point. and which is being
widely circulated by the Republican Ma
tional Literary Bureau as a campaign doc
ument, is being somewhat vigorously criti-
cised By the Democratic campaign mana
gers and it may be assumed that counter
acting literature will issue froic Democrat
ic sources.
In the speech referred to. Mr.. Mander-
son presents a series of statements in tab
ular form. the purpose of which is to show
that the military burden imposed upon the
American people by the Republican Adj
ministration is extremely light when com
pared with the burden borne by the sub
iects Of ether Governments. Mr.. Mander
son took occasion to say that the tables
had been prepared with very great care
and that he had sought to make them "ac-
curate beyond the possibility of dispute.
In the matter of the data relating TO the
foreign countries Mr.. Henderson said that
it had been brought down to the very
latest date possible" He did not say
specifically that the data relating to the
United States had been brought down to
the very latest date possible. After pre-
senting tables showing the relation of SOL
dieTs to population and area he gave the
cost of maintenance of the various mill
tary establishments as follows:
France. Sl23, 517 ,6S1; Germany s1i1, 49,
$50; Austria Hungary $50, 0S3, 02i; Russia.
1860, 191; Turkey, s19.9z17 55; Italy.
Si5,s59.6 500; Great Britain. SIS, 152, $50;
United States. ISL .ee3.927.
Contention of Democrats.
The contention of the Democratic man
ayers is that the cost of the American
Army as given by Mr.. Henderson is for
the year 1896, two years bsfore the Span
;sh- American war, ard before the issues
of militarism and Imperialism were born.
It is only the data relating TO the fore gn
establishments which Mr.. Henderson
brings down to the latest date possible. Z"
The Democratic managers set forth that
the actual appropriation for the American
Army for the fiscal year 1901 is STA 22e.-
095. which is nearly five times the amount
under the Democratic regime. Toe cost o.
the army in 1896 was only s23, 252. COS. The
rest of General Mandersons s51, 093. 92T
represents river and b-rbor and other nom
military expenditures.
All the following expenditures, provided
for in our appropriation bills for the fiscal
year 1901, are included in the European
military budget:
Army. 22OD95.55; fortificst.ons.
s7.3s3. s2s; Military Acadsmy, $3.50 $685.;
Pensions, Sl45, 245, $50; total, 1851 ,502,-
54S.22
The expenditure is about twice as much
as that paid by either Germany or Russia.
more than twice as much as France pays.
thrice as great as the burden of Great
Britain or OF Austria. six times grSater
than Italy bears, and thlrtsen times
greater than the cost of the Turkish mill
tary establishments
These facts, it is believed. are pressing
upon the minds Of the German Americans.
DIR. Hnbcrcomb's announcements
DR.. l. w. Habereom, who was German
secretary to the Republican National Com
mittee, in announcing his withdrawal fr5m
the ranks of the imperialists. at the ses-
sion of the National Imperialist
League. at indianapolis, said: IF Nc
Kinley is reelected the chances are that
The standing army OF the United States
will be increased TO zoe, 600 men. because
under the new order Of things we are
bound to be embroiled in all the troubles
OF the world
Representative Hay, one Of the fore
most member Of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, recently urged that in
order TO recruit standing army such as
contemplated by the Republican Admins
tration and made necessary by the policy
OF the Republican party, Consumption
would have to be resorted to. He based
this assertion upon the fact that when the
American Army was only 25 goo or 10000
strong, the enlistments were never enough
TO keep the army az its maximum strength
Well Informed politicians in Washing
ton say that there are three potent classes
of men at work in the interest OF Bryan
and Stevenson which were actively en-
gagged in the support of Mckinley and
Hobart in 1896. These classes OF men ara
commercial travellers, hotel men, and
coupon ticket agents. The "drummers''
and hotel men have organized an Anti
Trust League. and have established a
newspaper in New York. The league has a
membership already of fifty thousand.
Travelling Mems Position.
William Hoge. Secretary Of the CONNER
cial Travellers and Hotel Mems Antitrust
League. is a travelling salesman, a seller
of leather betting. and is well known for
his excellent standing in the fraternity
and his business qualifications. He has
said that more than two-thirds OF the
travelling statesmen will vote for Bryan and
Stevenson.
Another organization of commercial
trayelers-the Travellers Protective Asso-
ciation-with a membership of 1922. re-
Gently met at New Orleans and adopted a
report from its Executive Committee.
which contained the following references
TO the trusts:
''The dark clouds of monoDolies and
trusts still hover over us, and since our
last convention many commercial travel
ers nave lost their positions. and to use
the language of an authorized agent of the
trusts. $500 Coo commercial travellers have
been thrown out Of employment: 50 00O. COO
daily is thus saved TO the trusts By the
consequent Withholding of advertising pa
tronage from country newspapers. In other
words the trusts in these two items alone
save TO themselves Sc. 000. 600 daily. all OF
which is drawn direct from the peonle-
with such conditions realized. a great and
essential step viii have to be taken in Tho
warfare upon trusts which has now bscnma
inevitable"
It has been said By the drummers that
out of the suiferings OF the commercial
travellers first sprung the trust issue
They were the first TO feel the trust op-
preston, when more than 50 coo OF their
number were thrown out of employment
and the salaries of the majority of those
left on the road underwent reduction
Good Missionary Field.
Behind the commercial travellers are
thousands OF the proprietors OF small
hotels, whose principa. patronage has
come from these travelling men.