The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-21
CROP OUTLOOK
ST|RS CONFIDENCE
Business Men Everywhere
See Assurances of Con-
tinued Prosperity.


belief that unsettling influences are
continues to make it
self evident in all parts of the United
States. The following cheerful
statements we're made yesterday to
a request from The Sun for an opin-
ion of business prospects from var
ious parts of the country which bear
assurances of a stimulated trade
activity and a belief in rapidly re-
turning period of prosperity.
Splendid Outlook, Says Banker.
Louisville, KY, May 1O.-John B.
Pittle, vice-president of the Louis
Vile Trust Company and in close
touch with local conditions, sees a
splendid outlook for business condi-
tions. He said to-day:
Fundamentally business condi-
tions are sound and the prospects of
a big wheat crop give every reason
for encouragement. From present
indications it appears that the new
banking law will work smoothly and
give general satisfaction.
''The effect of the tariff had been
generally discounted and has had no
marked depressing result yet. If the
railroads get fair treatment and
there is a cessation of political at
tacks on trusts, business will revive
with increasing confidence in the fu-
ture and we will have real, contin-
uous, healthy expansion"
Columbus, Ohio, May 10.-Busi-
ness men of this city are generally
optimistic in their outlook. A char
acteristic statement is that made by
]. s. Ralson, president of the Raj
ston Steel Car Company, who says:
II believe that general business
With the prospects for good crops
that are now half made we are GER
tainly in for period Of prosperity
if business conditions are not inter
fered with by vicious legislation.
"The situation looks to me as If
the demagogue and undertaking pub
lications which have done so much
to bring on business distress were
about eliminated, and that is all We
need for a long period of continued
prosperity"
The International Harvester Com
pany said:
"The present crop outlook is very
satisfactory, but as considerable time
must elapse before the harvest we
think it too early to make any def
mite representations.
Irving T. Bush, president Bush
Terminal Company, said
There is nothing more difficult to
change than habit. Recently many
of the people of this country have
acquired the habit of dependency.
They look for trouble and hope for
the worst. The habit has been grow
ing since the panic Of 1907 and has
required the help of many a hard
knock for the American is naturally
an optimist. The country needs it's
financial liver shaken up, so we can
get rid of the black spots before our
eyes and see things in their right
proportions.
Some one thing is going to hap
pen soon to wake us up to the fact
that things are ready for another cy-
Gle of national prosperity if We will
only see them as they are. The tariff
changes are over, the currency law
has been enacted, the President has
selected able men for the Federal Re-
serve Board the railroad rate in
crease is almost settled, and crop
conditions point to record yields.
Even war with Mexico-though ter
rible from the standpoint of human
life-will bring certainty out of un-
certainty and arouse the people from
contemplation of their troubles to
action"
San Francisco, May 10.-F. S. Lip
man, vice-president of the Wells
Fargo-Nevada National Bank, said:
''The liquidation now going on all
over the country must be completed
before we can expect prosperous
times. The bounteous crops now in
prospect should accelerate the pro-
cess and indeed may bring about
good times unless Offset by adverse
governmental action having the eff
feet of expressing business and en-
terprise. The crops provide the
fund upon which our prosperity is
finally based, but we must at our own
peril solve Alright the main problems
of the relation of government to in
dustry. Until this is done uncertain
ty will prevail, tending to delay the
return to prosperity
Portland, Ore, May 10.-A. S.
Mills, president of the First National
Bank, said: with the Federal re-
serve banks in successful operation.
with big crops this year, as now
seems most probable and with the
granting of the railroads request for
a per cent increase in rates this
fall, there should be very material
improvement in business conditions
throughout the United States"