. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XV. Number 6 GfiflRflGTBR SKETCH. HON. PETER WHITE. LUMBERMAN AND STATESMAN. " The truest wisdom is a resolute ;—A Napoleon Maxim. IT is a wide gulf between the view held in the present day of men of commerce and that proclaimed by Cicero in the early centuries, that all artisans are engag- ed in a degrading profession, or still stronger expressed by Plato and Aristotle before Cicero's time, when they were wont t
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. TO CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XV. Number 6 GfiflRflGTBR SKETCH. HON. PETER WHITE. LUMBERMAN AND STATESMAN. " The truest wisdom is a resolute ;—A Napoleon Maxim. IT is a wide gulf between the view held in the present day of men of commerce and that proclaimed by Cicero in the early centuries, that all artisans are engag- ed in a degrading profession, or still stronger expressed by Plato and Aristotle before Cicero's time, when they were wont to declaim in a pitiful way against the noble rights of labor. People delight in the present day to do honor to the men who labor in the ranks of commerce and manufacture, though the time is not long gone by when some one spoke in gibing tones of Scotland as a nation of shopkeepers. Out of scores of instances that might be named, it may be remarked that Gladstone, England's (;. O. M., was the son of a merchant ; Samuel Moiley, who, as a British legislator, fought valiantly the cause of the masses, was a great merchant ; Joseph Chamberlain, Birmingham's proud son, is a king of com- merce. Going further back, it may be noted that Sir Robt. Peel, following in the footsteps of his father, was a printer of calico. Our own country produces numbers of examples on similar lines. Captains of Industiy are not alone leaders in the commercial world, but, the particular training that comes from activity in business, has shown to the people how well fitted are men of business for that other business arena, where are made the laws by which our country is governed. Complaint is sometimes made that par- liament and the legislatures are controlled by men of the professions, especially of the legal profession. An analysis, however, of the composition of our governing bodies, will show that a very considerable sprinkling of them are business men, and that not a few of these take a foremost positi
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