Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01
"A Drum Or Not To Drum.

..rocted to Two Idi60 PSs0e- eseAAs'
al' sar the caption, 1.-TWO Of Duluths'
anuss If DRUMMERS" The ASS was
UP r;sed to find they had SO many
81. in Duluth, but almost
funded when he found that the
asoto represented just TWO concerns,
pn, tbat all the rest of the city need
alD - he accounted for There were
e. ~ men in these two groups, mostly
~ bright looking, strong, men II
the prime of life
~ wish / knew exactly how many
- such "drummers" live in
n n0 l wish 1 knew exactly how
Inv, live in the United States !
man. nan the working class, the PRO
n uI1r knew just what function
nose Young, strong, good looking
' non NAV in modern production.
'DS Come Of these men. all of them as
.mnared with the average wage
s-nor or actual producer, are draw
t inc big salaries. $4,000 a year Is
MI out of the reach Of a good drum
NOR" while $4,000 is not an unusual
s;ng The travelling expenses. rail
,,.d fare, excess baggage, botel ex-
,snses, even of the poorest paid
sa,ummer" amount to vast yearly
ann as measured by the wages Of
the average mere producer. To be
vprv conservative suppose we say
that $4,000 represents both the salary
and travelling expenses of each Of
,hose nj men. This would mean an
oogregate Of $5S5,O00. for just TWO
houses in their awful scramble to get
trade.
We can safely say that there are
at least TWO rival firms, probably 30,
that are competing" with these
bOuses for trade" This would mean
Of least III MORE drummers, with
the same salary and expense fund or
an expenditure of ONE MILLION,
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS. While the
sum spent by ALL the drummers in
the limited States and in the World
would be an amount so vast that the
average wage Garner has not measure
IN bis head that will enable him to
comprehend it.
And this does not BEGIN to tell
lie story of WASTE from which the
ASS wishes to draw some pointed con-
customs in his next article and in
cidentally take the entire responsible
My Of DIsCHARGING the whole dam
(optionaD bunch of "drummers" and
"dummeretts.
And here are the conclusions that
the ASS wishes to draw from the pre-
ceeding article about drummer"
The first one is that THEY DO NOT
ADD A PENNY to the ACTUAL
VALUE of the goods they handle. The
second is that they do add to the
COST of every article they sell. The
fourth is that in a SANE INDUS
TRIAL ORDER they would be abso-
utely functionless, unnecessary, and
the fourth is that the sooner the pro-
cess of concentration of wealth and
justification of industry reaches the
point where this great army Of
WASTE LABOR will be eliminated,
the better it will be for the world.
WHO PAYS THE SALARIES OF
THE DRUMMERS, and all the hords
Of useless parasytical unnecessary la
bOrers (?) who stand between the
real workers and their product? #
Is not paid directly, by the real pro-
ducers, it is but a part THAT is
TAKEN OUT OF THE SURPLUS
PRODUCT that is exploited. from the
Producers, so in the last analysis their
backs bear the burden and their
LIVES pay the cost.
These "drummers" do not really be-
long to the rule of the BIG Capitalists
mat is fast approaching. They are
Inc "tizzle end" of the old competitive
sssten-and fine object lesson OF
now practical" and Scientific" it is.
dow the producers ought to love It!
It's this sort of thing, continued
@ intensified that our great 60
@lesmen like LaFollette and Bryan
1a all the so-called Insurgents and
sacals are desiring to extend and
N'petuate, for the benefit Of the
small business men," very "smalr
aen, in several ways.
How "tickled" the producers ought
V De to know that instead of q few
u'eat financial Despots skinning then
wi OF surplus products the progress
I'VE politicians" are now standing N
= the power of their might and wis
s'm and demanding that the worker.
saaA hereafter be "skun" by a hort
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