New-York tribune., 1916-07-11
Slow Way to Regeneration
OF Country. lie Tells
Detroit Crowd.
GREETED BY $4,000
AT FORD PLANT
President Defends Democratic
Party as the Friend of
Business. 0

Detroit. July 10 President Wilson
urged peace reached by mutual under
standing rather than force. and de-
tended the Democratic party as a
friend Of business. in speeches to-day
20 enthusiastic Michigan audiences.
Detroit streets were lined with thou
sands o. persons who shouted greet
ings and waved American flags at him
Wherever he appeared. The hall in
which he spoke TO the worlds sales
men congress was Jammed, and an au-
dience estimated at 10000 greeted him
az the Ford motor plant. Tonight in
Toledo another throng listened to his
brief rear platform address as he was
en- route back to Washington.
Peace" 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.
Il hear some men say" he said, that
they want 10 help Mexico and the way
they propose to help her is to over
whelm her with force. That is the
wrong way as well as the long way.
After fighting them you would have
a nation full of justified suspicion
Thus you would not help them. You
would shut every door against you.
WHY Mexico Is Suspicious.
,o.o g
that she thinks we DO not want TO serve
her. but possess her. And she has JUS
tfication for these suspicious in the
way some gentlemen have sought TO eX-
plOlt her possessions.
II will not serve these gentlemen,
but ! will serve all Americans by try
ing 10 serve Mexico herself.
The way 10 establish our sover'
eighty is to respect hers
At a non-partisan luncheon in the
Detroit Athletic Club, the President
sprang to the defence of the Demo
Gratis. A prominent Republican had
told him that he had been deriving
pleasure from association with Demo
Gratis. The President recited the incl
dent and declared that he long had
enjoyed the friendship and companion
ship Of Republicans, because. being Il
teacher. he would like to teach then!
something
I'VE have been trying, some of us,
for a good many years 10 teach IN
politics. as we'll as elsewhere, this
lesson. that we are all in the same
boat" he said. I'VE have common in
terests. and it is our business TO un-
derstand and serve those common in
terests. The great difficulty that has
confronted us has often been that we
have deliberately looked al these COM
mon 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.
Democrats Want to Make Living.
81 dare say you have noticed that
the same necessity TO make living
is imposed upon Democrats as Repub-
licans. and | dare say you are ready
to believe that Democrats are just as
willing 10 make good living as Re
publicans. Therefore, il seems to me
logically 10 follow. though ] have beer
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 if you believe that they are
not as fitted to guide it as other per
sons. you cannot be doubling their in
terests; you are only impugning their
intelligence"
The suspicion is beginning to dawn,
he added, that the average man under
stands the business necessities of tn"
country as we'll as the extraordinary
man.
$50 invite your thoughts" he con-
tinued. "in what ! sincerely believe TO
be an entirely non-partisan spirit to
the democracy Of business An act was
recently passed in Congress that some
Of the most intelligent business men Of
this country earnestly opposed men
whom ! knew, whose character | trust
ed. men whose integrity | absolutely
believed in.
Views Changed on Federal Reserve.
~ refer to the Federal Reserve
act, by which we intended, and sue
ceedcd. in taking credit out of the con-
troll of a small number of men and
making It available to everybody who
had real commercial assets.
And the very men who opposed that
act. and opposed it conscientiously, now
admit that il saved the country from a
ruinous panic when the stress of war
came on, and that it is the salvation OF
every average business man who is IN
the midst of the tides that have been
trying TO describe.
"What does that mean, gentlemen ?
II means that you can get settled
point Of view and can conscientiously