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Title: Morals in Trade and Commerce

Author: Frank B. Anderson

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MORALS IN TRADE AND COMMERCE

A LECTURE BY
FRANK B. ANDERSON

President of
The Bank of California
National Association

DELIVERED BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY
February 15th, 1911

Under the "Barbara Weinstock" Foundation

MORALS IN TRADE AND COMMERCE

The most beautiful thing about youth is its power and eagerness to make
ideals, and he is unfortunate who goes out into the world without some
picture of services to be rendered, or of a goal to be attained. There
are very few of us who, at some time or another, have not cherished
these ideals, perhaps secretly and half ashamed as though to us alone
had come an inspiration of a career that should touch the pulses of
the world and leave it better than we found it. And in the making of
youthful ideals we have changed very little with the passage of the
centuries. The character of the ideals has changed with changing needs,
but not we ourselves. Our young men still see visions; they still fill
the future with conflict and with struggle and prospectively live out
their lives with the crown of achievement in the distance. It is well
that it should be so. The ideals of our youth are the motive-power of
our lives, and even those of us who have lived far into the eras of
disappointment would not willingly wipe from our memories even the most
extravagant day dreams from which we drew energy and hope and fortitude
and self-reliance.

If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct
our first entry into the world of affairs--as unquestionably they
do--they must be counted among the real forces of the day and as such
they are as mu