The Detroit times., 1912-10-23
FERRIS TALKS TO
1900 FACTORY HANDS

(Coatinued from First rage).
happy. In this country wealth has
shifted from the many to the few.
have no quarrel with wealth. I am
IN favor OF II. But ! want Il for ali
the people. AT the present time one
per cent OF the population owns one
half OF the wealth that exists In this
country. II they had earned II legitl.
mately, would not question their
right to II. But they have obtained
Il through legislation that butt up
trusts. and the problem now Is, how TO
secure al honest distribution OF the
country's wealth.
TAFT True To Trust"
-Four years ago the Republican
party promised reduction OF the tar
IN whereby your clothes and your
food would be brought within the
reach Of your wage But the party
didn't keep It's promise Two years
ago you elected a Democratic house.
Bill after bill was passed TO reduce
the tariff. Mr.. Taft. true to his trust
In 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 lcng as there 10 work to do. The
best workers OF the country are In
favor OF dealing with the trusts In. Q
strenuous way. Let as 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 I pleaded for q
primary law. I was fought by Mr..
Warner and his friends. They ridi-
culed the schoolmaster who wanted q
primary. They saM nothing would
come OF II. Eighty thousand Repub-
licans voted for me In that election.
Afterwards, my enemies passed pri-
mary law--and what did you gety
You got a rotten law. II were elect
cd governor, I'd 20 to work to give
you q primary election law that would
mean something, and whereby q man
wouldn't need q fat pocketbook In or
der TO be elected.
II advocate the initiative, referen-
dunn and recall. Those principles
don't belong 10 Roosevelt. The Demo
Gratis faye been arguing for them for
years. The credit should 60 rather
10 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.
Il cant sympathize with any presL
Dental candidate who argues for any
thing but full wage. Your sister
who teaches school Is getting 10 to
25 per cent less money for the same
work as a man. don't believe in
charity. I'd say to Carnegie: III
you've got so much wealth that you
don't want, why don't you go back
| 10 Homestead where you made 1t and
| distribute II justly? Charity is only a
| cheap way OF chloroforming your
conscience. want justice, not char
| ity.
"Mr. Musselman says that I'm not
at to be governor because I'm not 4
business man. Twenty-eight years
ago began with 15lmen and -wemen
In Big Rapids. Now, Fve/got 500. /
have not received an endowment OF
one dollars not one dollar from Big
Rapids. Doesn't II require business
ability to organize an institution OF
that magnitude? For RS years Mr..
Mussclman has been making money.
| I have been making men and women.
Glad He's an ldealIst.
They try to ridicule me by saying
What is an idealist? A man who
wants tomorrow TO be better than to-
day "A man who wants q better gov
nxxf %. m N
this year
Il want to talk a little about the
national candidates. II you want to
find out about Taft, ask Roosevelt.
II you want to find out about Roose.
vclt. ask Taft. Four years ago Roose-
veit iikened Taft to Abraham Lin
coin. wouldn't do that for any
man This nation has produced only
one Abraham Lincoln. II could, Ia
put statue of Lincoln In every city,
so that every man and woman could
look into that face and see higher
deal OF manhood. wouldn't liken
Woodrow Wilson to Lincoln-yet
Theodore Roosevelt likened Taft to
him. What does Roosevelt say about
Taft now7
.Mr. Wilson tried to do in Princeton
what tried to do at the Ferris in
stitute. He tried to make one man
as good as another Woodrow Will
son tried to rule out aristocracy. ana
came near losing his Job. Then he
did work In New Jersey that Id like
TO do In Michigan. He cleaned up
New Jersey. In God's name, II you
want to find ont what he is, see what
he did. It isn't what man says, It's
what man does. that determines
what he is. 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 az you
are, but you are as good as / am.
Finally, IL am elected governor
of Michigan, Will do my best to
carry out the democracy that I have
preached for IS years will be gov
ernor not for any class Of politicians,
hot for any political machine, but to
eive you the best government that II
In the power OF my heart and brain
Many workers came up to shake
hands with Prof. Ferris. and he was
/ cheered M the automobile speeded
hway.
prof Ferris will speak at 1880. We'd