Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1900 — COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. [ARTICLE]

COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.

They Are Sot Flocking Around Bryan to Any Alarming Extent. The Niagara Falls Cataract Journal is snatching at any straw that comes along In an effort to hold up the political fortunes of Bryan and his amalgamated party. Referring to this paper, The Cataract Journal says: “The News of course has nothing to say about the commercial travelers. The secretary of the national organiza-.. tiou informed Mr. Bryan the other day that 50,000 commercial travelers have been thrown out of employment as a result of the operation of trusts, and he said that all of those men would support Mr. Bryan. There is no doubt that most of them wilL” Oh, yes, The News has something to say about the commercial travelers. There Is not a word of truth In what the secretary says if the secretary said anything like the above. The commercial travelers never lost a situation through any act of the Republican party. Those who were thrown out of employment by the trusts, tyhich, it is now shown, are Democratic more than they are Republican, found employment again either as owners of opposition trusts or as agents for new business combinations which grew out of the rivalry engendered by the purchase of the old establishments aud organizations. ’ 1 ,V The good times which President McKinley’s protective -tariff brought upon the country opened new avenues of trade, and the commercial travelers have reaped a reward as well as other Industrial representatives. The promises of 1896 were kept to them as well as to other workers. Commercial travelers are gathering in club organizations In New York and elsewhere. The News told the other day of a splendid club organization just formed In New York citj T whose noonday meetings are attended by larger crowds than can gather in the hall on Broadway used for the headquarters of the dub. McKinley and Roosevelt clubs are being formed by commercial travelers In Chicago, Boston. Philadelphia and other cities throughout the country. This matter of the 50,000 commercial travelers out of employment joining the “calamity” hand of minstrels to fling doleful songs for campaign purposes is fliore conducive of humor than serious remark, for it is a story thrown out from Lincoln, where the ready writers for Bryan are manufacturing stories at which they laugh as they cast them broadcast upon the country. But the following from the Lockport Journal exposes the true inwardness of the secretary’s story which is taken in dead earnest by the Cataract Journal. The Journal says? “That commercial traveler who attempted to organize a Bryan Commercial Travelers’ club in Buffalo on Saturday night and who failed because he could find no Bryanized commercial travelers has now advertised for some in the Buffalo papers. Pretty hard lines when one has to seek the ‘want’ columns of newspapers to run down a few of those ‘50,000 traveling men who have come over to Bryan this year.’ Buffalo News.

The wool growers and sheep raisers have been benefited to an unparalleled degree by the return ot a protective tariff. Daring a Democratic administration and the Wilson tariff medium wool sold for 18 cents per pound In 1890. Daring McKinley and a protective tariff medium wool sold In 1899 for 31 cents per pound. In short, the wool producers almost doubled the price of their wool under a protective tariff.