Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-11
Strong for Peace in Mexi-
co, but Insists on Abso-
Lutte Right of u. S. to
Defend Border.

DETROIT. MICH, July l0.-President
Wilson urged peace reached by mu-
tual understanding rather than force,
and defended the Democratic party as
friend of business in speeches o-day
to enthusiastic Michigan audiences.
thousands OF persons shouted greet
inSS at him wherever he appeared.
The hall in which he spoke to the
Worlds Snlcsmanshp Congress was
jammcd. and an audience estimated mt
$4,000 greeted him at the Ford motor
plant. Tonight in Toledo another
thronG listened to his brief ar-plat-
form address.
feace was the shouted response
Of the salesmanship audience when the
PRESIDENT asked them what they de-
sired when the present world strug-
giles are at an end. And he added that
permanent peace" was his desire.
At nonpartsan luncheon in the
Detroit Athletic Club. the President
sPranS TO the defense of the Demo-
Gratis.
We have common interests. and it
is our business to understand and serve
those common interests" he said. 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
MS were separated from others, and as
II some of us wanted TO dcprcsS bust
ness, for example, and others of us
wanted to exalt business.
INTELLIGENCE IMPUGNED;
INTEREST NOT DOUBTED
f1nr =,
that tho same necessity to make IA liv-
ing is imposed upon Democrats as Ro-
publicans. and dare say you are ready
to believe that Democrats arc Just as
willing to make a good living as Re
publicans. Therefore, il seems TO me
logically to follow, though | have betn
quoted as having no regard for logic.
that Democrats are naturally aS much
interested in the business prosperity OF
the United States as anybody else. SO
that II you believe that they are not
AS htted to guide it as other persons,
you cannot be doubling their interest:
YOU are only impugning their intclli-
Scncc. And some Democrats had no.
hced hat tho inclination TO suppose
'hat only some persons understood the
business OF America had a tendency to
run INTO the assumption that the mum
Der or persons who understood that
business was very small. and that there
we're only certain groups and associa :
tons of gentlemen who were entitled
to be trustees of that business for the
rest OF us. have never subscribed in
any walk Of life to tho trustee theory.
nave always been inclined To believe
that the business of tho world was
best understood by those men who
were In the struggle for maintenance,
not only, but for success.
Tho man who knows the strength
'of the tide is the man who is swim
ming against it, not tho man who is
floating with IT.. The man who is i'm
merscd In the beginnings OF business
who is trying to get his foothold who
is trying to got other men to believe
in him and lend him money and trust
him to mako profltablc use of tina,
money, is tho man who knows what
the business conditions In the United
states arc. and ] would rather take
his counsel az to what ought to bo
done for business than the counsel OF
any established captain OF industry
because the captain of industry is