The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-10-30
"oPTIMsM AND OPPORTUNITY"

Germs in the United States and known
to practically every farmer in the
country, recently issued a business
statement dealing with legislation, in
dustrial and war conditions which
every voter should read and carefully
ponder. The Studebaker Cooperation,
OF course, is not q political organiza-
ticn, but in politics its management
individually is republican, yet it's I'M
qualified endorsement of the president
and the democratic congress is the
view of the business man and the
thousands of working men which it
employs. The statement is headed
Optimism and Opportunity" and
reads as follows:
CAS- we said in our advertisement
| of August 16, 1T is very good these
| days to be an American
During this month our country has
| encountered a trying experience in
which our finances, our foreign trade,
and even our domestic business have
been disturbed by the sudden and
tremendous wars in our ancestral
countries.
"Yet we are coming out of it WE'LL
'The president, with his cabinet
and the congress and the co-opera-
ton of bankers and business men
called to Washington for the purpose,
have promptly and nobly met the
emergency by sensible rulings and
wise laws, which will largely free our
industries and commerce from re-
straint.
"They have arranged for the is
suance of emergency currency
through amendment of the Aldrich
Vreeland law, under which national
banks can obtain all the currency
needed for legitimate business.
"They have organized the federal
reserve board which will insure the
opening of the twelve new federal re-
serve banks inside of fifty days, thus
giving ample facilities for business
TO every section of our country.
"They have amended the ship
registry laws so that American cap
ital will buy foreign ships, which to-
gether with the large number of ships
already owned by Americans will fly
the flag of the United States and
furnish ample capacity for our trade
"They have opened the Panama
| canal, and thus provided shorter
routes for our commerce with South
| America, Australia and the Far East
They have under consideration a
| plan of financing the surplus cotton
crop, so our couthern planters will be
enabled to hold their cotton until
normal markets are restored.
1.-The Studebaker Corporation
with its sixty-two years of business
experience, its thousands of employ
| ees, and it's millions of capital in
vested, appreciates the patriotic work
that has been done and the oppor
tunities thereby afforded.
Speaking from our experience and
| immediate forecast of possibilities, we
feel cheerful and optimistic over the
outlook for profitable business and
steady employment of labor with in
creasing developments of foreign
trade in neutral countries.
America is today the clearing
house of the world.
'"The great nations of the earth are
depending upon the integrity of her
friendship, the safety and saneness
of her diplomacy, the extensiveness
of he rtrade, and the soundness of her
finance.
ct is a time for Americans to show
their optimism, their patriotism and
their aggressive earnestness.
''The foundations of our national
prosperity have been laid too deep
anu IOO W DS
ed even by so great catastrophe as
the war of all Europe.
1--WE regret deeply and sincerely
that the war must be, yet we are in
no wise to blame and are happily far
removed from the theater of activi-
ties.
Friendship we feel for all, and to-
ward all we must remain in both
thought and action entirely neutral.
Our duty to ourselves and our
moral obligation to the rest of the
world compel us Americans to be up
and doing, to maintain cheerful and
hopeful spirit, to operate our indus
tries and enterprises, to pay our bills
as usual, and to conduct our affairs
generally on conservative but enthu-
siastic lines"