Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-03
BUSINESS IS KING.
Big Change Has Taken Place Among
 the College Graduates.

Big Change Has Taken Place Among
 the College Graduates.
 Fifty years ago in Harvard or Yale or any of our large colleges 1t took courage for student to say that he was going into business after he got his sheepskin. "Of what use Is a di- ploma," fellow students would say to him, If you are going into business? Why, farmer might as we'll go to college as business man."
 A tremendous change and evolution have taken place in this country, es- pecially during the last quarter of a century. To-day business is king. Nothing else is more evident. It is the first impression that strikes tie for eign visitor as he makes a tour of America. Tn fact. he henrs very little of anything else. It is all business, the development of vast schemes, which makes the foreigner stand aghast. Other countries. know very little about doing things upon such vast scale as we do them here. Everywhere bus mess Is making such strides that un- fortunately nearly everything else is being covered up. We read compara- lively little in the newspapers to-day about the professions and the fine arts and the more aestheic vacations. Business Is king. We see 1t and hear it everywhere, until the brain grows dizzy, and the imagination staggers.
 Thousands of professional men are going into business. Everywhere we hear of them leaving the pulpit. the law office. the schoolroom. or the pro fessor's chair to enter merchantile life.
 Is 1t any wonder that youth every where are eagerly looking forward to business careers when they com pare the slow methods. the years of pinching economy. by which their fathers managed to lay up mere competence, and the tremendous prizes offered in the commercial world of today.
 Why should we not look at business as dignified? It has been the greatest civilizing power the world has known. for 1t has brought the people of the world together as nothing else has, tending to harmonize their differences. to develop a common language through our steamships. our telegraphs. tele- phones. and railroads. In fact. lt will not be long before there is practically but one country. for we shall converse as freely with the people on the other side of the globe as we communicate now with people in our different states. Business Is not only king. but it is also the greatest missionary in the world.
 It has taught men that selflshness Is fatally wicked and that the man Is most successful who Is most consider ate of the man at the other end of the bargain. that it pays to he unselfish and that the shortest-siehted policy is selfishness. Think what business has done in the way of broadening men of compelling them to throw away their prejudices-religious. poll teal. geographical. and racial. Busi- ness Is bringing men of all nationali- ties together. and compelling them to live together in peace and harmony. We are beginning 10 see that there Is a great gospel In business: that it is a great elevator of races: that the struggle to better his condition takes man out of the fight and mire and makes him a cleaner and more decent and agreeable man with whom to live. Millions. of people have been lifted ont of savagery through commercial efu- cation alone.