The Detroit times., 1912-10-24


Bill after bill was passed TO reduce
the tariff. Mr.. Taft, true to his trust
N more ways than one. vetoed every
bill. Yet every one was In the favor
OF the toilers of this country.
Now they tell you that we are go
Ing to have q panic--that We are go
ing TO have an area OF free soup
houses Don't be scared by that cry
as long as there Ii work to do. The
best workers OF the country are In
favor OF dealing with the trusts In a
strenuous way. Let US enforce the
laws against trusts. especially the
criminal laws. Let's deal with all
alike-the rich just the same as the
poor.
Eight years ago pleaded for a
primary law. was fought by Mr.
Warner and mis- friends. They ridi-
culed the schoolmaster who wanted a
primary. They saM nothing would
come OF IL. Eighty thousand Repub-
licans voted for me In that election.
Afterwards, my enemies passed pri-
mary law-and what did you getY
You got rotten law. II were elect
ed governor, I'd 20 to work TO give
YOU a primary election law that would
mean something, and whereby man
wouldn't need fat pocketbook In or
der to be elected.
'T advocate the initiative. referen-
dunn and recall. Those principles
don't belong 10 Roosevelt. The Demo
Gratis Rave been arguing for them for
years The credit should go rather
to william Jennings Bryan. haven't
anything against the Bull Mooser
Thank God, thousands OF men have
left the grand old party and are
thinking for themselves.
"I can't sympathize with any presi-
Dental candidate who argues for any
who teaches school Is getting 15 to
! work as q man. don't believe In
! charity. I'd say 70 Carnegie. III
you've got so much wealth that you
don't want. why don't you go back
TO Homestead where you made 1t and
distribute II justly?' Charity Is only q
cheap way OF chloroforming your
conscience. want justice, not char
ity.
.Mr. Musselman says that I'm not
fit to be governor because I'm not a
business man. Twenty-eight years
ago ! began with 10 men and women
in Big Rapids. Now, I've got 500.
have not received an endowment oil
one dollar, not one dollar from Big
Rapids. Doesn't II require business
ability to organize an institution OF
that magnitude? For 28 years Mr.
Musselman has been making money
heNe been making men and women
Glad Hes an ldeallst.
They try to ridicule me by saying
that I'm an idealist. Thank God / am.
Whlt Is an idealist? A man who
wants tomorrow to be better than to-
day. A man who wants better gov
ernment for Michigan next year than
this year.
II want to talk little about the
national candidates. II you want To
find out about Taft. ask Roosevelt.
II You want to find out about Roose-
voIt. ask Taft. Four years ago Roose-
welt likened Taft TO Abraham Lin
coin. wouldn't do that for any
man. This nation has produced only
one Abraham Lincoln. If could, ia
put statue OF Lincoln In every city,
so that every man and woman could
look into that face and see a higher
deal OF manhood. wouldn't liken
Woodrow wilson to Lincoln-yet
! Theodore Roosevelt likened Taft TO
him. What does Roosevelt say about
Taft now?
"Mr. Wilson tried to do in Princeton
what ] tried 10 do at the Ferris in
stitute. He tried to make one man
as good as another. Woodrow Will
son tried to rule out aristocracy, and
came near losing his job Then he
did work in Nswa Jersey that I'd like
to. do in Michigan. He, cleaned up
New Jersey. lnSGod's name, IL you
want to find out what he is, see what
he did. IL Isn't what man says, it's
what a man does. that determines
what he !s. That's his character.
Woodrow Wilson never got into a
political back alley and threw mud
or brickbats.. He is not only states
man, but Democrat in the sense that
democracy is brotherhood-that dem
ocracy means not am as good as you
are. but you are as good as / am.
Finally, II | am elected governor
OF Michigan, will do my best to
carry out the democracy that have
preached for 2S years. will be gov
ernor not for any class OF politicians,
not for any political machine, but to
give you the best government that Is
In the power of my heart and brain" "
Many workers came up to shake
hands with Prof Ferris, and he was
cheered as the automobile speeded
away.
Thursdays program includes: Noon
meeting at the Packard plant; even
ing meeting in the armory, with Sen
ator O'Gornian. of New York; Con
gressman Doremus and Alfred Luck
ing. On Friday, Mr.. Ferris will leave
for a swing upstate over the ID. Il M.
and down again on the Michigan Cen