The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF
A Budget of Interesting Items Gathered
by a Caucasian Representative.

unaided success in a large way can be
found in the events OF Richard Cob
denis life. The man who never had a
chance, carved his way to greatness step
by step. first as porter, then clerk, trav-
cling salesman, mill owner, member OF
parliament. economist, humanitarian,
statesman and reformer Richard Cob
den spun his dreams out Of life's reali-
ties He saw that commerce instead
fof being merely clutch for personal
gain was the chief factor i'll civilization
He realized that we are educated
through our efforts to get food and
clothing, and therefore the man VINO
ministers to the material wants ODD hu-
mainly is really the true priest.
Golden set himself to inquire into the
causes of discomfort and failure, of pro-
gress and prosperity. And not content
to merely philosophize he carried his
theories into his own enterprises. Many
of our modern business betterments
seem to have had their rise in the rest
less prophetic brain of Richard Golden.
He of all men sought to make COM
merce science, and business fine art,
! The world moves slowly. 1t was only
about ten years ago that we in America
thought to have i'll our presidents cabi-
net secretary of commerce and labor.
Listen to what Golden wrote in I843
in the close council of every king, or
president. or prince should be a man OF
affairs whose life is devoted to COM
MERGE and labor and needs and require
ments of peace. His work is of far
greater moment than that of men of
war"
We used to talk about THE three
learned professions we use the
phrase now it is only in a Pickwickian
sense--for we realize that there are at
present fifty-seven varieties of learned
men. The greatest and most important
of all the professions is that of COM
merce or business. Medicine and law
have their specaltes-a dozen each
ties or divisions. The best lawyers now
are business men, and their work is to
keep the commercial craft in a safe
channel where it will not split on the
rocks of litigation nor founder in the
shadows of misunderstanding.
When England had tax on every
thing including bread, on grains and
meat brought into England, there was
an import tax which was positively pro-
hibitive. This tax was for the dual prr-
pose of raising revenue for the govern
ment and to protect the English farmer.
OF course the farmer believed in this tax
that prevented any other country from
coming in competition with himself.
Golden thought that food products
should pass unobstructed to where they
were needed, and that any other plan
was mistaken and vicious The question
came up in the House of Commons and
when Golden spoke on free tradss he
was Kissed, but his courteous manner
won respect, and his resourceful knowl-
edge made the opposition cautious. Cob
den was in the minority, but he went
back to Manchester and former the
Anti Corn Law League, demanding that
wheat and maize should be admitted
into the United Kingdom free of duty,
and no tax of any kind should be placed
on bread stuffs. A bitter fight was
waged Golden finally won. Sir Robert
Peel publicly acknowledged his obliga-
ton to Golden, explaining: "A new
epoch has arisen, and England is a
manufacturing country, and as such the
Irepeai of the corn laws becomes desir-
able. y
| Richard Golden elevated and refined
the world of business, just as he bene-
fitted everything he touched John Nor
ley, one of the ablest of English states
men. says: His early death at the age
of sixty-one seemed a calamity for Eng
land for we so needed the help of his
generous, gentle and unresentful spirit.
He lived not in vain; yet years must
pass before the full and sublime truths
for which he stood are realized