The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-10
RESIDENT WILSON
IN FORD's TOWN
Spoke Before Worlds Sales
manship Congress and
Visited Automobile
Factory.
HENRY's HAT COMES OFF
America Has Become a Creditor
Nation Instead Of Debtor
In Last Few
Years.
HENRY's HAT COMES OFF
rBy Robert J. Bender, United Press
Staff Correspondent


Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich, July 10.-Presi-
dent Wilson today como into the
west for the first time since his pre-
paredness tour and this time he
brought slogan OF peace. The first
thing he received upon arising this
morning was a message from Henry
Ford.
1t read: my hat is of to the man
who has kept this country out of war
and will continue to do so."
With this in mind, the president
arrived at 10 o'clock and was taken
mmediately to the Auditorium, where
he delivered an address to the
Worlds Salesmanship congress.
Later, he planned to speak to the
employees of the Ford motor works.
En- route home this afternoon the
president expects to speak from the
rear platform OF his car at Toledo.
The president was introduced i'm
mediately upon his arrival at the
hall. Three Thousand people packed
the floor and boxes. These are days
OF incalculable things" he began
'Tt is impossible -foranyone to pre-
dict the future Of business.
zone thing is sure. The United
States will play new part-of IN
creased responsibility.
Business in all countries has
been timid. Not until the last two
or three years has she provided her
self with the instrumentalities neces-
sary. She has produced large
numb Der. OF provincial thinkers-men
who did not think America was big
or strong enough to play q great part
in the business Of the world.
'Do you know that in the last few
years we have become creditor ma
ton instead of debtor? Our bus1-
ness Of the future will be to finance
the world and the men in charge OF
this must be able to handle 1t with
the proper spirit and mind.
Craftsmanship must hereafter be
touched with an ultimate compre-
hension OF business enterprise
throughout the globe. America will
have to place her intelligence ahead
of her goods. Salesmansh1p must
take an international atmosphere.
you've got to sell what other peo.
pie want. Your raw materials must
be the raw materials other countries
want-and your manufactured goods
the same.
eff we can once get what some
gentlemen are so loathe to give us-a
merchant marine (the trouble OF
some men is that they are slow IN
their minds) then we can adjust our
goods to the desires OF those 10
whom we deliver them.
"The only way in which you can be
sure Won will be accepted IS to be
sure YOU have something worth tax
ing.
conditions.
"The long way to get together is to
fight. Some men say they want to
helm Mexico They want to over
wheIm her with force. That 1s the
long way as we'll as the wrong way.
ssRy this you establish hatreds.
Then when you try to go In as
friends and helpmates, you find the
doors barred as if with steel. MeM-
co feels that we do not wish to help
her. hut to possess her. This Is due
to the manner in which some have
tried to exploit her possessions. So
far as I am concerned, l will not help
these men. We must respect our
own sovereignty--but we must re-
spect that of Mexico. Ny belief Is
like the Virginia bill Of rights-eV-
ery people has right to manage her
own affairs ! say this for the bene-
fit of those who would butt in.
what do we desire when this great
struggle is over? Permanent peace.
Lift your eyes to the horizon OF
business. Let your thoughts run
abroad throughout the world and
with the thought that you are Ameri-
cans and stand for the liberties and
rights of mankind, go out and sell
your goods-and in SO doing attempt
to convert them to the principles OF
America"
Redfieid Speaks.
DETROIT, Mich, July 1O-Address-
ing some 5000 statesmen and execu-
tives, attending the Worlds Salesman
ship congress here, Secretary OF Com.
merce VIM c. Redfield today declared
that the export trade of the United