3.  The next rule is commercial.  Trade itself is neither menial nor demeaning.  Rightly used, it is a high form of control.  People have things to buy and things to sell.  The maker is handicapped.  He cannot travel elsewhere to dispose of what he has.  The buyer is ignorant.  He does not know where to go, or cannot go, at first-hand, for the shoes, the hat, the reaper, the bricks, the lumber, the stationery which he must use.  There appears upon the scene the man of observation, of investigation, of capital, of shrewdness, of resources.  With one hand he gathers the products of the Pacific and of the South Seas.  With the other, he takes the output of the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf States, the Mississippi valley, the northern lakes and hills.  He sets up an establishment, he puts forth runners, advertisements, and show-windows.  He stocks shelves, decks counters, and employs clerks, packers, salesmen, cash-boys, buyers, and department heads.  The man who wants to buy, buys from a man across the sea and yet is served in his own town.

The man of commercial power is a man of world-wide rule.  He may lay up in banks a fortune which he intends to try to spend upon himself; or he may say:  I am accountable for the pocket-books of the world.  I am in authority over them.  I open a market, or close it.  I buy, dispense, and disperse human labor.  I create wants, and I satisfy them.  I will establish honest laws of trade.  What I do shall be rated as commercial law.  What I say shall be quoted as a way of equity and probity.  That man is a King of Trade.  His throne is set upon hills and seas.  His subjects are all men with needs, and all men with products of the land, the coasts, the sea, or brain, or skill.  This is the lawful King of Trade.  He represents God’s mart of exchange.  Primarily, goods are not bought and sold in the market.  They are first transferred in that man’s brain.

4.  Another rule is of concerted works:  the rule of the Engineer.  Back of every advance in our country, in facilities of trade and transportation, or of public health and safety, stands the man who thought it out.  Take, for instance, the development of the “Great American Desert.”  Who projected its irrigation, by which areas have been redeemed from barrenness and waste?  Who planned the economic use of the Niagara Falls?  Who built the Brooklyn Bridge?  Who projected the vast waterway from Chicago to the Gulf?  Who first thought of a cable across the depths of seas?  Who bridged the Firth of Forth, the Ganges, the Mississippi?  Who projected the gray docks of Montreal? the Simplon Tunnel?  Who wound the iron rails across the Alleghanies, the Rockies, the Sierras?  Who drew the wall that has encircled China for a thousand years?  Who projected the Suez Canal? the Trans-Siberian Railway?  Who sunk the mines of Eldorado?  Who designed the Esplanade at Hamburg? the stone banks of the Seine? the waterways of Venice? the aqueducts of Rome? the Appian Way? the military roads of Chili and Peru? the Subway in New York?