. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... olitical courts ofthe world; famine, death, disease and want will crouchat our doors. Commerce is production, war is destruc-tion J- The laws of production and distribution mustand will be made a science; and then and not untilthen will happiness come to mankind and this earthserve as a pattern for the paradise of another life,instead of being a is good to see that President Roosevelt has recently-appointed to the position of Secretary of Commerceand Labor, one of the best and strongest men inAmerica—a man of the true Richard
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... olitical courts ofthe world; famine, death, disease and want will crouchat our doors. Commerce is production, war is destruc-tion J- The laws of production and distribution mustand will be made a science; and then and not untilthen will happiness come to mankind and this earthserve as a pattern for the paradise of another life,instead of being a is good to see that President Roosevelt has recently-appointed to the position of Secretary of Commerceand Labor, one of the best and strongest men inAmerica—a man of the true Richard Cobden type. Atthis time when a few^ over-zealous individuals arecalling for a stronger army and an irresistible navy, itis surely well for the president to have near him aman who believes with Ernest Crosby that, Satanstill finds mischief for idle ships to do, and withRichard Cobden that, The temptations in businessare so great that it demands the highest type ofconscience; the clearest brain and the most genuinemanhood that can be enlisted. Ill. GREAT REFORMERS—Richard Cobden ALPH WALDO EMERSONdefines commerce as carryingthings from where they areplentiful to where they areneeded. Business is that fieldof endeavor which undertakesto supply the materials tohumanity that life demands.^m^i Q The clergy are our spiritual^^^ >C^y advisors, preparing us for a^aS^Ztf^t^! pleasant and easy place in*^ T ■ I ifc . » another world. The lawyersadvise us on legal themes—showing us how to obeythe law, or else evade it, and they protect us fromlawyers jH The doctors look after us when diseaseattacks our bodies—or when we think it does.■We used to talk about The Three Learned Pro-fessions—if we use the phrase now, it is only in aPickwickian sense—for we realize that there are atpresent fifty-seven varieties of learned greatest and most important of all the professionsis that of Commerce or Business. Medicine and lawhave their specialties—a dozen each—but busi
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