The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1902-01-24

severally, it tenders its Sunday greet
ing.
1t wants every one Of you 10 pros
per.
| 1t wants to see the bad become good
aud the good become better.
| 1t wants Ocsla to become a city of
brotherly love.
1t harbOrs no resentment, nor i'll
will, nor jealousy, against any bust
ness enterprise nor individual in Ocala
1t expects to live and enjoy life and
wants every one else TO do likewise.
1t wants TO see every citizen of our
beautiful city, regardless of his profess
sion, business or occupation, or of his
feelings towards the editor of this pa
per, whether of love or Of hatred, to
grow in statute and strength, intellec-
tusl and physical, and prosper in his
business, for in so doing he will help
on the good name and prosperity of
the city, and this paperexpects to pros
per as it prospers, and grow as it
grows.
Its destiny Is very closely allied to
the destiny of Ocals, and they must
grow great or small together.
It wants the Ocsls Evening Star,
the Ocala Weekly Star, the Baptist
Witness, the Religious Digest, and
the Ocala Printing company, all to
prosper and grow strong.
1t wants to root out the spirit of
envy, hatred and jealousy, and see
Ocals become peaceful, rich and
prosperous community.
1t wants to see generosity and benev-
Olence prevail, work be provided for
the unemployed, and want, and the
fear of want, and all their tram OF
evils, take wings and Fl away.
1t has heard that the Ocsla Print
ing company is ambitious to begin
the publication of a daily paper.
1t hopes that it will carry its design
into execution and be successful in
the undertaking.
Whether it shall he successful or
not, the Ocals Daily Banner is deter
mined that it shall not play the part
Of the dog in the mangeT, and back
bite and bark at others as they pass
along because they are more success
full and more deserving Of success
than it is.
We cannot build up a community
by pulling it dOwn-it can be built up
only by every man giving every other
man a helping hand.
If every lawyer, doctor, editor,
preacher, merchant, and hotel man,
becomes envious of others in the same
line of business and succeeds in run
ming them out and closing them up,
it will not be long before they them
selves will be forced to hunt other
fields and greener pastures.
But, if the other policy is to be per-
sistently pursued and every man shall
determine to help build up every
other man, whether in the line of his
business or not, our town will quickly
feel the impulse; it will put on new
growth, spread its wings and many
will take shelter hereunder. The
whole lump will be leavened and
everybody will receive benefits.
In union there is strength and won
derful possibilities lie in the multi
plicity of numbers.
The town is all right, and the people
are all right-they are only to be prop
erly approached and properly handled.
All the world is growing better, aid
all that is in it is becoming more
grandly beautiful.
There Is a greater freedom of express.
ion OfOne's opinions and greater toll
erance of the opinions Of others than
was ever before known in any period of
the worlds history, and the pathway
Of the future il ablaze With light.
There is less drunkenness, less
dense ignorance, less rufiianism; the
homes of the people are mor- com
fOrtably aud luxuriously furnished;
greater consideration and concessions
are made 10 the wife, and in every
sphere of life woman's usefulness and
influence have been greatly enlarged.
No man who drinks intoxicating
liquors can to-day find employment
with any railway, steamship or ex-
ress company, or any of the great
business concerns of the country.
This was not the case even within
the memory of men whose heads are
not yet tinged with gray.
This is great factor in the spread
of sobriety and temperance.
Along religious lines we are growing
better, broader and more tolerant.
Ina word, the world is growing bet
ter in every way, and the Ocala Daily
Banner hopes that ii may shed some
ray of light that will help make the
whole more affulppDt