The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-02
Optimism and Opportunity.

! uSement, 1T is very good these
i days to be an American"
During the month our country
has encountered trying experience
in which our finances, our foreign
| trade, and even our domestic busi-
ness 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-
| tion of bankers and business men
called to Washington for the pur-
pose, have promptly and nobly met
the emergency by sensible rulings
and wise laws, which will largely
| free our industries and commerce
from restraint.
They have arranged for the issu-
| ance 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 Fed
eral Reserve Banks inside of sixty
days, thus giving ample banking ia
cilities for business to every section
of our country.
They have amended the ship reg
istry laws so that American capital
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 carrying
capacity for our foreign 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 cot
ten crop so that our Southern plan
ters will be enabled to hold their
cotton until normal markets are
restored.
The corporation, with its sixty
two years of business eXperience,its
thousands of employees and it's
millions of capital invested-appre-
ciates the patriotic work that has
been done and the opportunities
the -ehy afforded.
Speaking from our experience
and immediate forecast of possihiIi-
ties, we feel cheerful and optimistic
over the outlook for profitable busi-
ness and steady employment of Ia
Dor, with increasing developments
of roreign trade in neutral cour-
~
America is today the clearing
house OF the world.
The great nations of the earth
are depending upon the integrity of
her frieuGship-the safety and sane
ness CT her diplomacy-the extern
siveness of her trade, and the sound
ness of her finance
1t is a time for Americans to
show their optimism, their patriot
ism, and their aggressive earnest
ness.
The foundations of our national
prosperity have been laid too 1eep
AID 100 strong to be seriously dis
turbed, even by so great a catas-
trophe as the war of all Europe.
We regret deeply and sincerely
that the war must be-yet, we are
in no wise to blame, and are happi-
ly far removed from the theatre of
its activities.
Friendship we feel for all and
toward 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 a cheer
full and hopeful spirit, to operate
our industries and enterprises, to
pay our bills as usual, and to con-
duct our affairs generally on con-
servative, but enthusiastic, lines.
NOTE-The above advertisement
was inserted in leading papers
Throughout the nation a few days
ago by one of the largest and most
successful American automobile and
wagon manufacturing concerns. The
advertisement is a powerful crib
ute to the sagacity of the Presi-
own story. ~.