The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-31
A CONFESSION AND A coNcLU,
SION

remarkable editorial under the above
title.
1t seems to think that in our talks
about the evils of capital we have
caused the pendulum of public opin-
ion TO swing too far in one direction,
and unless attempts are made to
swing it into its rightful place-a hap
DIV mean between the two extremes
we are likely to raise up a nation of
pessimists.
4 nation of discOntents with whom
hope has fed.
Appleton's says that the magazines
and newspapers have done their share
in spreading the gossip and things OF
evil until they have assumed the very
appearance of truth.
The magazines, the newspapers and
the statesmen have all been at fault
building up and spreading this gossip
of gloom and evil forebOdings until
suddenly we have been awakened by
the great panic and begin TO realize
the truth Of il all.
The editor of AppletOn's thinks that
we should retrace our steps and for a
while at least preach buoyancy and
hope
1t points to the fact that at a late
meeting of railway presidents twenty
two of the twenty-four had fought
their way up from the bottom.
And it insists that this is no eXcep-
tiOnal case.
It says that the same story will hold
good in all the departments of human
effort.
The late Marshall Field, the prince
Of American merchants, is an illus
trious case in point, and most Of the
American merchants today are self
made men.
The story holds true that there's al
ways an opening for men of merit and
in the end that man finds his place at
the top.
There is. indeed. q greater OpDCr-
tunitv in the United States today for
the man of push, pluck, merit and gen
JUS than in any other nation and in
any other time in the worlds history
How is it with the men of your own
. acquaintance?
FLORIDA is making more strides in
wealth today than at any other time
ami what of her chief presiding Off
Ger?
+ A few years ago Napoleon B. Brow
ard, now governor OF the state OF
Florida. was performing the menia
service Of cook on a steamboat
\ young man. who worked his owl
way up in the world, is now a member
of the United States senate from Flor
ida before he. is thirty-two years O
age.
His colleague. now a millionaire, be
gan life in Florida in a logging camp
performing rough manual labor.
How is it in the newspaper field?
The Jacksonville Metropolis and th'
Tampa Tribune are perhaps the tw,
most successful ones. Editor Carte
began his career as a sewing mackjn
agent, and Wallace Stovall as printing
. office devil in this city.
The late s. B. Hubbard, who PEI
haps built up the greatest bushes
in Jacksonville, arrived in that cit
with scarcely a penny and his bus
+ ness was a monument to his own ski
and toll, and was unaided by any spt
cial privileges.
The late Frank Cullen was an ofic
boy and before he was forty was hal
; owner of the Windsor Hotel
Make a personal application of
( everywhere and you will find that
is confined to no one place but hold
good everywhere.
q Richard S. Hall. Louis Horne, job
s D. Robertson, and other turpentir
5 operators of this city, now owning pi
latial homes and riding in autom
L biles, a few years ago were clippers
Il ''wOOdsriders, and doing such 9th.
N drudgery around the turpentine farm
o The same story may be told
+ Capt. John Inglis and Colonel Cam
lie and other of our prominent phospha
Ia miners.
Munroe & Chambliss, our banker
L started at the bottom.
C. The same story holds good of OF
Ia merchants.
II Abe Brown & Bro, Jake Klein, S
s. Whaley, Jake Gerig, c. R. Tyding
a Clark Bros. Marcus Frank, and othe
lie started at the very bottom.
lie David s. Woodrow, who has ju
$ completed one of the handsome
n homes in Ocala. and is founding a cit
Id not many years ago was a groce
clerk for the late John Mccarthy.
y At the bar it was the same way.