Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
Republican A. p. Leased Wlre]

DETROIT, July 10.-President Will son urged peace reached by mutual understanding rather than force and defended the democratic party as a friend of business in speeches today to enthusiastic Michigan audiences. Detroit streets were lined with thou sands of persons who shouted greet ings and waved American flags at him wherever he appeared. The hall in which he spoke to the WorldS Salesmanship congress was jammed, an audience of several thousand per sons greeted him at the Ford motor rlant and tonight in Toledo another throng listened to his brief rear platform address
 Peace" was the shouted response of the salesmanship audience when the president asked them what they desired when the present world strug- gles are at an end. And he added that permanent peace" was his de- ! sire
 At non-partisan luncheon, in the Detroit Athletic club the president | sprang to the defense of the demo- i crats. A prominent republican had | told him during the day that he had been deriving pleasure from associa- tion with democrats and the execu- tive recited the incident and declared that he long had enjoyed the friend ship and companionship of republi- cans because being teacher. h. would like to teach them something.
 We have been trying, some of us for a good many years to teach il politics as elsewhere this lesson tha We are all in the same boat" h. said We have common interest and it is our business to understant and serve those common interests The great difficulty that has con fronted us, gentlemen, has often beel that we have deliberately looked a these common interests from self chosen angles which made them loo as if some of us were separated iron others and as if some of us wante to depress business for example, an others of US wanted to exalt busi ness.
 'I dare say that you have notice
 that the necessity to make living
 imposed upon democrats as well a
 republicans and l dare say you ar
 ready to believe that democrats ar
 just as willing to make good liv
 ing as republicans. Therefore.
 seems to me logically to follow
 though I have been quoted as havin
 no regard for logic that democrat , are naturally as much interested
 the business property of the Unite
 States as anybody else. So that
 you believe that they are not as fiji ted to guide it as other persons yo p cannot be doubting their interest: f you are only impugning their inte
 ligence."
 The suspicion is beginning to daw
 he added, that the average man LII l derstands the business necessities I the country as well as the extraordir s arv man: So I invite your thoughts V he continued sin what I sincere . believe to be an entirely nOn-p -partisa
 spirit to the democracy of bushes s An act was recently passed in col = gress that some of the most intell Seht buslhess htH ol ti'iS C"uhtl !, earnestly opposed-men whom = knew, men whose character l truste
 men whose integrity I absolutely b = lieved in. I refer to the federal a f by which we intended and succeed e in taking credit out of the control
 a small number of men and makil h it available to everybody who h; n real commercial assets and the We d men who opposed that act. and VI l. opposed conscientiously. now adn