Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-05
1.-THE GREAT AMERICAN
DRUMMER" HEARD HERE

ers explained that he was just fresh
from the land of the big red apple, the
home of coal and gas, brave men and
beautiful women. His tribute to his
State was glorious. He told OF how
privates in the Northern army went
back to their homes after the war, but
having had glimpse of Arkansas,
had never been satisfied till they re-
turned to make their home there.
He carried his hearers to heaven
where he found the golden streets, the
pearly gates groups Of beautiful wo-
men and everything as he had pict-
ured it save great number OF men
wearing shackles. He wondered at
such treatment in heaven. but his
guide, supposed to have been st. Pc
ter, explained that those men were all
from Arkansas. and that if he did not
keep them chained, every bloomin' one
of them would go back home.
The speaker had a fund OF anece-
dotes, all OF them new and pertaining
mostly to Arkansas and the Arkansas
drummer, but there was a great deal
of food for solid thought interspersed
at regular intervals and which caused
the drummer present to feel more sat
isfied than ever with his lot. He sta
ted that there are five hundred thou
sand commercial travellers in the
United States and that they are the
men who keep the world moving, that
they are the piston rods Of commerce
and stand out in bold relief as the
leaders in thought and the business
world. He had been drummer for
quarter Of century and had travelled
all over his section of the country.
At every town he found that the lead
ing merchant, the most prominent
lawyer. the biggest banker. the best
preacher and those on top in other
professions had, at one stage Of their
life been drummers. On tho other
Hand he had been through the'bis pen
itent,ary In Missouri and there he
found men OF all callinss and profess
sions. save tho. drummer. Not one
Of them had ever Sroken into tho Ar
Kansas Legislature, either. and for
these and sundry other reasons he
was bound to admit that tho drummer
after all is . pretty good fellow.
Speaking Of sordid matters, such -
salaries, Mr.. Moore declared the drum
mers are: the best paid men in the
country. Congressman used to draw
Esa1aries Of $1,000 each per annum.
and there were one hundred thousand
drummers who made bigger salaries.
In other words, the drummers Of the
United States drew salaries amounting
to 500, 100000 and turned in expense
accounts for &500,o0o.ooo more. Talk
about your billion dollar Congresses
said the speaker, 1t does not compare
with the money spent by the drum
mers Of the land. He could take the
salaries paid the drummers and buy
all the oil cafs Mr.. Rockefeller would
need in lifetime.
The drummer was declared the salt
of the earth, generous to a degree,
never struck or worked boycott, was
the guardian of the peace and a be-
lever and defender of the law, who
was always ready and willing to help
those in distress
He had noticed one thing in the
thousands of towns he had visited
! that there are negro doctors, negro
lawyers, negro druggists, negro mer-
chants and negro preachers by the
drove, but thanked God there are no
negro drummers, and never will be.
In fact, declared the speaker if the
drummers had their way this would be
white mans country sure enough.
Mr.. Moore spoke on this line for
more than an hour. and there was not
dull or prosy sentence in his SER
mon In fact he was repeatedly inter-
rupted by applause, and at the con-
clusion there was a great demonstra-
ton of approval ON the sentiments he
had expounded.
| The Smoker.
At the smoker which took place
in the Hotel Jefferson dining room.
happy-go-lucky sentiment prevailed
and with Judge w. D. Jones, the wit
test of local wits as the chief fun
producer" of the evening, there was
nothing lacking. Judge Jones started
the ball-a-rolling when he introduced
Mayor Toney, referring to him as the
clean street mayor" Judge Jones is
NOTED for his cleverness to gag and
when he continually handed them ont
Friday night he kept the guests in an
uproar. The guests included mem
ibers of the Travellers, U. c. T. and
Pine Bluff Board of Trade. More than