Commercial Travellers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 35, 12 January 1885, Page 2

Commercial Travellers.

1 1 (to the editor op the standabd.) / Siß.^Keading your jeport of J. T. J>avis*:> bankruptcy meeting, held laat \veek, bore otifra conviction that I have had for some time, viz., that commercial ■"travellers have a great deal to do with the numerous failuresjthat are taking place here and elsewhere. There are tw.p, distinct kinds of travellers—one that will take « no " for an answer, and anothecthat will not ; an/lift fc fh^ ] n tt>r who leave their mark m almost every town they visit. Ailbnsiness men have not the same .amount of firmness, jwdL the oiTy-tongue^ J Bnmiw'cim < -ftBSwS-i»" the outset wi&.-whom he is dealing He will persuade a managam^hisownoon: yictions that it is necessary to his success m bifeinesftiihat tffigoodi; t?$ d u he ord^ c d. from «• our "^firau ' K'r^ £° od^^^' but instead bf^lOO, the bill is nearly double that " amount /as was. jthetjase^ the feilure ' ouoted'above)- r trad at thVfend bfttlree ' months, on theJjills, maturing, the poo* tradesman finds he is hopelessly involved — m' fact, has ; to' seek 'rera^e m Ihl Baiikraptcy Court, i MJ^ffaVbusii&sl man^ would have been ; better off *Mfcr hH he ,adher6d,to the « no, IK ttrst place-; but,* as I said before, j&mnesg is lacking income, and the naint S6 on sojhick that they eventuafiy **im& *° JOT™**/'" and are' soon' iaanchadi .on tfle high road to ruini' 6( o6xme Ihk " nrms.vfronvfwhom the gooda^aw taketf : " sometimes lose, but their loss ianoSS ' compared with that of the man who^nas : to sacrifice everything because he was fedaway by the oUy tongue of the cdi&V • jmercial traveUer.--I antv&c, " r 3&a Bono Pubuco.