The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-12
Travellers
FOR PARKER
Commercial Men All Over
the County Pledge Sup
port to the Demo-
cratic Ticket.
OPPOSE TRUST DoMINATloN
Letters State That No Glass
Of Employe Has Been So
Injured by Destruction
Of Competition.
OPPOSE TRUST DOMINATION

NEW y YORK, Oct, II, 1904.-From
ihe way letters are daily pouring into
National Democratic headquarters it is
very clear that the commercial travellers
are rapidly coming over to Judge Parker.
the heads of the various commercial tray
elels associations aud from the members
the reason for this attitude is stated to
be their unalterable opposition to trusts.
This is clearly set for in a statement re-
Gently made by the executive committee
of America This organization has a
membership Of over sixteen thousand.
This statement is as follSws:-' Since our
last convention many commercial tray
eleIs have lost their positions. To use
the language of an authorized agent Of
the trusts. three hundred and fifty thou
sand commercial travellers have been
thrown out of employment as the result
of the consolidation of the various enter
prises, and three million dollars were
saved daily to the trusts. An equal
amount was also saved by withholding
advertising from country papers. Thus
six million doilars daily are kept from the
people, When such conditions are real
izesf il Is obvious chat vigorous action
will have to be taken in the warfare
against these trusts" President Jenkins
Of the Maryland Division of the Travel
ers' Protective Association shows the
trend of the feeling of these business
men i'll a letter whihch he writes to the
National Association of Democratic
Commercial Travellers, saying lit will
afford me great pleasure to enroll as a.
member of your body. l am organizing
Parker and Davis clubs of commercial
travellers Sin this State and we will take
an active part in the campaign from this
time on."
Frank W. Street, president of the
United Commercial Travellers of the
United States has communicated with
Chairman Taggart in the following vein:
mo one is so foolish as to lose sight of
the fact that in working out their policy
of economy one of the first acts on the
part of the trusts is to dispense with the
services of commercial travellers former
ly employed by the competing firms
which We're merged into the trusts. 1t is
all very well to tell them that they will
find employment in kindred branches but
such claims do not mystify or deceive the
majority Of commercial travellers and
and whoeyer could believe so would be
credulou@ enough to think that the trusts
would rather cut down their own incomes,
in order to retain all hands and at the
same time reduce the price Of its pro-
ducts to the people"
.sThere is no class of men more gener-
ally hurt by the trusts writes President
f. L. Courtney, of the Commercial Tray
ellers' League, than the retail mer-
chants and commercial travellers.
The trusts are able and do squeeze
wages down so that a man is. barely able
to purchase the necessaries of life. The
trusts are the hideous offspring of the
Republican party. Many people are of
the opinion now, and | am inclined to
think rightly, that the trusts have already
become greater than the Republican par
ty itself. believe the time is close at
hand when the people Of the United
States will rise and by the power of the
ballot show the trusts that they are not
so powerful as they confidently imagine"
There is scarcely a state in the union
hliciS \ al hSi <iis3 |k'sAs NAoDo uAS nv
being formed by commercial travellers.
Letters from the heads Of all the state
commercial travellers organizations have
been received by Chairman Taggart, who
is greatly pleased at the interest which
these business men have taken in the
campaign.
Eve have only four weeks more, # is
true, said Mr.. Taggart as he took his
desk at National Headquarters Monday
morning, but never since the ST. Louis
convention have had such confidence
that We were going to win than ! have.
att his moment
Although the National Chairman
would give no figures, II can be stated
that these are the States which the Dem