The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-11
DETROIT CROWDS
 LIKE PEACE TALK
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too close at the little processes with thoughts and your imagination run abroad throughout the whole world, and with the inspiration of the thought that you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice and the princi- pies of humanity wherever you go, go out and sell goods that will make the world more comfortable and more happy. and convert them to the principles of America."
 At nonpartisan luncheon in the De- troit Athletic club the President sprang to the defense of the democrats. A prominent republican told him during the day that he had been deriving pleasure from association with democrats and the executive recited the incident and de- clared that he long had enjoyed the friendship and companionship of republi- cans, because, being teacher, he would like to teach them something.'
 We have been trying, some of us, for a good many years to teach in politics, as well as elsewhere, this lesson, that we are all in the same boat" he said. We iidNC SOiiiiioll illtSIcSlS duQ IL IS our business to understand and serve those common interests. The great difficulty that has confronted us, gentlemen, has often been that we have deliberately looked at these common interests from self-chosen angles, which made them look as if some of us were separated from others and as if some of us wanted to depress business for example, and others of us wanted to exalt business
 IN SAME BOAT
 T dare say that you have noticed that the same necessity to make living is ina- posed upon democrats and republicans and l dare say you are ready to believe that democrats are just as willing to make good living as republicans. Therefore, it seems to me logically to follow. though I have been quoted as having no regard for logic, that demo- crats are naturally as much interested in the business prosperity of the United States as anybody else. So that if you believe that they are not as fitted to guide it as other persons, you cannot be doubting their interest; you are only inn pugning their intelligence"
 The suspicion is beginning to dawn, he added, that the average man understands the business necessities of the country as well as the extraordinary man.
 So I invite your thoughts" he con tinued, ''in what I sincerely believe to be an entirely nonpartisan spirit to the democracy of business. An act was re- gently passed in Congress that some of the most intelligent business of this coun- try earnestly opposed-men whom knew men whose character I trusted, men I refer to the federal reserve act by ing credit out of the control of small to everybody who had real commercial that act and opposed it conscientiously a runous panic when the stress of war every average business man who is in the midst of the tides that have been trying to describe.
 means that you can get settled point of view and can conscientiously oppose progress if you do not need progress yourself. That is what it means. I am not impugning the intelligence even of the men who opposed these things be- tause the same thing happens to every man if he is not of extra ordinary make up, that he cannot see the necessity for thing that he does not himself need When you have abundant credit and control of credit, you. of couruse do not need that the area of credit should be broa den cd v