The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-11

will DO the necessary"
The Presidents reference to peace
were heartily 'cheered during both
speeches.
Afternoon Address.
Part OF the afternoon speech to the
Salesmanship Congress follows:
II am glad TO find myself in Detroit
and face to face with the men who
fhave played the principal part in Civ
ing Its distinction to 1t, distinction
throughout the country and through
out the world. Looking about among
you l see that 1t Is true in this matter.
as in others. that the only man Mt for
such a job are young men and men
who never grow old. There Is the
liveliness of youth In the eyes even of
these of You who have shared with
me the. full parting of the hirsute APP
pendage.
II have been interested in some
thing that Mr.. DENLY has said to me
today. He has shame facedly admit
ted that he has found himself enjoy
ing the companionship of Democrats.
Now, ] have long enjoyed the friend
ship and companionship of Re-
publicans, because l am by instinct a
teacher and / would like to teach
them something.
We have been trying. some of us.
for q good many years to teach in
politics as we'll as elsewhere this les
son, that VIC are all In the same boat;
we have common interests. and it is
our duty to understand and serve
those common interests. The great
difficulty that has confronted us.
gentlemen, has often been that we
have deliberately looked at those COM
mon interests from self-chosen angles
which made them look as If some of
us were separated from others, and as
II some of us wanted TO depress bust
ness, for example; and others of us
wanted to exalt business. / daresay
that you have noticed that the same
necessity to make a living is imposed
upon Democrats as Republicans, and
dare say you are ready to believe
that Democrats are jlxst as willing to
make a good living as Republicans,
Democrats Interested In Prosperity.
Therefore. ii seems to me logically
to follow, though l have been quoted
as having no regard for logic, that
Democrats are naturally as much in
tercsted 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 doubling their interest
you are only tmpugning their intelli-
gence. And some Democrats had
noticed that the inclination to suppose
that only some persons understood
the business of America had tend
ency to run into the assumption that
the numb Der of persons who under
stood that business was very small.
and that there were only certain
groups and associations OF gentlemen
who were entitled to be trustees of
that business for tho rest of us have
never subscribed in any walk of life to
the trustee theory / have always been
inclined to believe that the business
of the world was best understood by
those men who were in the struggle
for maintenance, not only, but for sue
cess.
The man who knows the strength
of the tide Is The man who is swim
ming against 1t. not the man who is
floating with il. The man who i'm
mersed in the beginnings OF business.
who is trying to get his foothold. who
is trying to get other men TO believe
in him and lend him money and trust
him to make profitable use Of that !
money IS the man who knows what I
the business conditions in the United (
States are. and l would rather take /
his counsel as TO what ought To be .
done for business than the counsel !
of any established captain of industry, !
because the captain of industry is |
looking backward and the other man !
is looking forward.
Conditions Changing.
The conditions OF business change
with every generation; change with j
every decade, are now changing at
almost GREATNESS pace, and the men
who have made good are not feeling
the'tides as the other men are feel
ing them. The men who have got
into the position OF captaincy, unless
they are OF unusual fhre. unless they
are of unusually catholic sympathy,
unless they have confined to keep
close communion with the men they
are employing and the young men
they are bringing up as their assist
ants, do not belong 10 the struggle
in which we should see that every
unreasonable obstacle is .Sefnoved and
every reasonable help afforded that
public policy can afford So / invite
your thoughts in what I sincerely be-
1feFe-t to be an entirely non-parttsan
spirit to the democracy OF business"
Some Fought Financial Reform.
AN act was recently passed in Con-
gress that some of the most intelli-