The Detroit times., 1914-07-29
OSBORN MAKES
PLEA FOR SPIRIT
OF TOLERATION
Deprecates Bitterness Between
PrOtestants and Catholics as
Shown in Ulster
BOARD OF COMMERCE
ADDRESS Is CHEERED
Urges Employers TO Get Into
Greater Personal Touch
With Employees

The address OF former Governor
Chase S. Osborn. before the Board OF
Commerce, Tuesday noon was large.
ly plea for spirit OF federation be-
tween PrOtestants and Roman Cath
0lics and for greater manifestation OF
brotherhood LetWeen employer and
employe. II was typical Osborn
speech couched in the faultess o.
horn English and delivered with the
usual Osborn VIM Tho address was
listened 10 with close attention by the
Zig audience and won frequent ap-
plause. President Charles b. Warren
introduced the speaker, who said In
part:
am told that Detroit business men
and manufacturers are in advance OF
their congeners I'm this country and In
the world and believe u Consequent
" I credit YOU with having as high
ideals OF citizenship as have. and
believe YOU are Just as anxious 70 per-
form the duties OF citizenship as ! am.
II this is true have not come 90 teach
YOU but TO review with you those
things that we may mutually regard
as important such review VIII be
good for me and will reimpfess you
am mea curing you largely by q dis
tfnsulshed address given recently by
your president MT Warren In IL he
said many striking things Among
other things he stated You are not only
having the way for Industrial fairness
and Industrial practical sense IN every
way but that also your Hight IA tllunl-
mating the pathway 10 higher indus
trial humanity and justice lie saws
Won are q step ahead of the law and
not a step behind H. In the yester-
days II was a contest on all sides Of
taking Each person seemed 20 he
seized with tho desire 10 take as much
as possible from his fellows, TO throw
as much load on the other as he might
and 10 ride hard and fast upon those
who were under him But the spirit
Of your Board OF Commerce members N
beginning TO he one that viii make
the competition OF the future 60 be q
race as 10 who shall give the most
rather than who shall take the most
You are Offering yourselves with
eagerness 20 your ambitious UrgNniZa-
tion and to the building ~ Detroit but
YOU viii agree with me that YOU can
not build Detroit separately from
Michigan. and you cannot construct TIE
state Independently OF the nation. Con
seuuently, IL YOU are TO do your whole
public action II you have not already
done so, which is altogether likely In
the past II has been too true that bust
ness men have not taken as much ir-
terest In public affairs AS was their
duty and would have been good for the
state, as well as themselves,
This attitude OF recreaucv Is also
being corrected. There must be leader
ship In political ethical and moral aC-
tivities a Z well az I'm business II that
leadership is TO be meaningful II must
command the best minds IN all OF the
communities that 20 20 make the state
, and nation. In order 20 obtain the
! service OF those minds the business
fields must he dra wn from The hope
f, OF the nation lies in every man doing
fully his duty and performing for him
self his duties 81 citizenship, He must
not leave those duties unperformed,
and he must not hire others 20 DO his
duty for him few citizens hirCd
substitutes during our great Civil war.
In onr great political wars tho hiring
81 substitutes and the lodging %
drafts are altogether too common
am glad TO believe that these charges
do not lie with any force against the
business men Of Michigan
Let us consider for moment tho
situation ms TO the goVernorship OF
Michigan I believe | am the only can
didate on the Republican ticket who
has had any considerable business eN
perlence This Is not az ~ should he
There are men In your association ana
in this room who arc equipped In every
way FOR the governorship ana even for
the presidency OF tho United states
hut they do not offer themselves Why
do they not Perhaps they are too
busy which .is poor excuse, Perhaps
thew have not made as much money IS
they desire That is 2 worse excuse
Perhaps they shrink from the frictions
and criticisms Of public life That is
no excuse az all II good men do not
offer how can the people be served nv
good men. Always Il seems 10 me the
field Of choice .or higher offices is too
narrow There must be n development
~ bravery and sacrifice among bust.
ness citizenry A. FOR myself, 7 HE
the activity OF striving for the public
and 7 like IT'S impactive thrusts. ] even
like It's criticisms that are openly and
bravely made That Is one Of the fine
things or our country Criticism Is
usually made from the housetops and
gives tho man criticised an opportunity
TO prove he Is correct or gives him n
chance 20 get right n he IS wrong In
the autocratic countries % the world
criticism is yelled, suppressed sub
terranean. and finally hccumulates a
force that eNplodes n sociai voicano.