New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-05-13
GOOD TIMES MOVE,
Drummers to Hold Prosperity
Congress In New York.
HERMAN A. METZ THE LEADER

Empire City's Comptroller Heads Or
ganization to Spread Business Opti-
mism In Every Section and Show
That Nations Industries Are Sound.
Comptroller Herman A. Metz of New
York, president of the commercial
travellers interstate prosperity con-
gress, which is to be held in New York
city on Aug. Il and Is, has already re-
ceiyed letters and kilograms promising
support from leading business men in
all parts of the United States. The
avowed object Of the congress is to
carry on the ''let us alone" idea and
infuse a spirit of optimism and good
cheer into the business men of the
country.
The comptroller was enthusiastic the
other day over the prospect and be-
toward restoring confidence in the fu-
ture of the country.
prosperity abounds in this great
land today to degree unprecedented"
said the comptroller, despite all the
calamity howlers from here to the
river Styx to the contrary, and the
commercial travellers, who are always
on the move, can do more to spread
optimism through the land than any
other body OF men in the country.
"When over 100000 travelling men
get out on the road and talk Of good
times and financial sunshine there will
be renewal of business against which
even THAT bogy, the presidential year,
cannot prevail"
When asked what had been done in
the way of calling the attention Of
American business men to the pro-
posed conference the comptroller said:
eve have addressed our call more
particularly to the territory CONNER
cially and industrially tributary to New
York and within the zone bounded by
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo and
Portland, Me-, section in which agri-
cultural and Industrial conditions are
fundamentally sound.
II am certain that the message Of
optimistic confidence that will go out
state prosperity congress will be an i'm
portant factor in bringing about re-
vival of prosperity. We have had
many messages of good cheer from all
over the United States.
'sThe fact that few rich men have
lost money, that few capitalists find
themselves possessed of fewer millions
than year ago as measured in the
terms of stock exchange quotations,
means nothing to the rank and file Of
our population.
''Trade has been checked simply
through the paralysis of credit Incl
dental to this Stock Exchange depres-
sion, but the growing demand that pro-
ceeds from SO per cent Of our popula-
tion still exists and will have to be
supplied, and now Is the time to pre-
pare ourselves for revival Of that de-
mand that will only be more insistent
because for the past few months it has
been denied.
''The railways have promised to CO.
operate with us to the utmost extent
of their abilities. We recognize the
important part the transportation inter-
ests must bear in the restoration Of
prosperity. l believe the commercial
travellers are attempting something
which no other class dares undertake
We all realize that it is a tough propo-
sition to overcome the feeling which
has overtaken the business people since
last November"
S. G. Mead, secretary of the Mer-
chants association of New York, has
written to Mr.. Metz to say:
1T gives us much pleasure to advise
you that the association will be de-
lighted to place it's facilities at the dis
posal of the convention. offering for
the holding Of the convention the use
of our auditorium, our largest room''
William Hoge. secretary of the pros
perity congress, who has had the or
ganizing Of the association in hand,
said that the individual councils of the
United Commercial Travellers associa-
ton, whose headquarters are at Column
bus, O., and those of the Commercial
Travellers Protective association, with
headquarters in st. Louis, had taken
up the project and were doing all that
could be done to help the good cause
along.
William McCarroIl, president of the
New York Board Of Trade and Trans
portation association and member of
the public service commission, said
that he was heartily in favor of the
proposed prosperity congress.
Conditions are much better west of
the Alleghanies," said Mr.. McCarroll
than they are in the east, principally
l believe. because it is farther from
the financial center than the country
east of the Alleghanies We need
something more than talk to restore
confidence and revive trade, but / am
very hopeful that everything will boom
again after the presidential nomina.
lions are made"
The prosperity congress movement
was started under the joint auspices OF
, the United Commercial Travellers, with