The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-10-16
make a conquest of the trade of the
world, and has already begun doing

world, and has already begun doing
so.
It's destiny seems glorious one.
Our dispatches show that our steel
plants and factories of various kinds
are receiving orders for commodities
that they never received before, and
from countries with which they never
before were even on trading acquaint-
ance
This is only the beginning of the
end.
We read in the dispatches that the
war is costing the contending nations
thousands and thousands of dollars
daily.
What becomes of all this money?
It is not thrown into the sea, burned
up nor otherwise destroyed. 1t is not
likely to be repudiated. To keep
their gigantic armies in the field the
printing presses of the nations at
war are being kept busy grinding out
money, and after the struggle shall
have eventually come to an end there
will be more money IN Europe than
was ever known before, and less o.
other things that enter into the do
nestle economy.
That was the condition of things in
the United States after the civil war.
The printing presses in the north
were kept busy, and the country was
| flooded with money. Property values
of all descriptions scared higher and
higher, and flush times prevailed in
all the business centers and agricul-
tural districts.
There was but one thing apparent
ly the north did not have, and that
was cotton.
Fortunately, that was the one ar
ticles that escaped the waste and raw
ages of the war in the south, and
when peace was proclaimed it COM
manded a fabulous price.
This made trade between the north
and the south more active than it
had ever been before, and If the crop
of bad politicians could have been
headed off the country would have
| been a wonderfully united and pros
porous one.
1t would have presented a specta-
Gle to the world that would have been
absolutely admirable, but bad blood,
greed and avarice predominated, and
the saturnalia of evil prevailed.
Nearly everything in the south haf
been exhausted. Hide-bottom chairs
and tin plates and makeshifts for
nearly every article of household and
kitchen furniture were nothing unus-
ual in the richest homes.
All these things had to be replen-
ished, and fortunately the high price
of cotton enabled most of the people
to do so.
Tobacco and some few other arti-
cles commanded a fair price, and for
while there was an unparalleled ac-
tivity in trade.
The factories and other industrial
enterprises at the north were kept
busy; swollen fortunes multiplied,
and the crop of millionaires became
surprisingly large.
The waste and ravages of war will
be the same in Europe as was the
case in the United States, and her fac
tories having been closed and her
ships lost, she will look to the United
States for succor.
Nearly every article that enters
into the domestic economy will have
been lost in the wreck Of the war,
and for all these things the various
nationalities will look to the United
States for replenishment, and as mon
ey will be more abundant over there
than anything else the United States
ought to revel in trade that is with
out a parallel in the worlds history.
She will be in a position to cap
ture the trade of the world, so to
speak, and being on friendly terms
with all nations it is not unnatural to
predict that the United States will
enter upon a career of boundless
prosperity.
If we act with prudence and wis
dom we can keep this trade, and tn
mind is staggered in it's contempla-
ton of the heights that are possible
of attainment by our nation.
For a lINION PASSENGER STA