THE TRAVELLING MAN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1063, 21 July 1910, Page 22

THE TRAVELLING MAN.

Speaking to the National Travellers’ Association in Chicago, Mr. Henry J. Bohn, of the “Hotel World,” said (inter alia): — Before passing to his direct relations to the hotel I wish to say a few words why the travelling man is as he is- Human nature under like conditions is very much the same the world over. What makes the commercial traveller strong and lusty, broadminded, liberal, generous, self-reliant and wholesome? Exposure to temptation. The oak is not grown in the hothouse. Law and prison walls do not make a good and strong man. I know a community in this state of some two thousand people where every man and woman obeys every law and regulation; abstains from excess

in foods and drink; attends regularly religious services. Is this not a model community? Gov. Deneen can tell you that this model community is located in the city of Joliet (a prison). I tell you, gentlemen, the man or woman who cannot stand temptation, by a natural law, must perish off the lace of the earth. The commercial traveller who must be kept sober by statute is neither a credit to himseii nor a profit to his house. iue successful travelling man of to-day must be made of sterner stuff.