Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
BUSINESS IF AMERICA NOT IN
 HANDS IF FEW
Republican A. p. Leased WireJ

DETROIT, July 10-In the second speech delivered by President Wilson today, which he made at the luncheon at the Detroit Athletic club, he de- clared:
 Some democrats had noticed that the inclination to suppose that only some persons understood the business of America had a tendency to run
 into the assumption that the number of persons who understood that busi-
 ness was very small and that there were only certain groups and asso- citations of gentlemen who are en- titled to be trustees of that business for the rest of us. l have never sub scrihed in any walk of life to the | trustee theory. I always have been
 of the world was best understood by
 those men who were in the struggle | for maintainance, not only, but for success The man who knows the strength of the tide is the man who | is swimming against it, not the man
 who is floating with it. The man
 who is immersed in the beginning 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 profit
 able use of that money, is the man
 who knows what the business condi-
 tions in the United States are, and
 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 cap
 tain of industry is looking backward
 and the other man is looking for
 ward The conditions of business
 change with every generations
 change with every decade; are now
 changing at an almost breathless
 pace and the men who have made
 good are not feeling the tides as the
 other men are feeling them. The men
 who have got into the position of capt2incy unless they are of unusual
 fibre, unless they are of unusailS catholic sympathy. unless they have . continued to touch shoulder with the
 ranks. unless they have continued tC , keep close communion with the mer they are employing and the yount men they are bringing up as theil assistants, do not belong to the strug-
 gle in which we should see that ev-
 cry unreasonable obstacle is removed
 and every reasonable help offered that public policy can afford
 If I did not believe in the ordin. ary man l would move out of ; democracy and. if I could find {; decent monarchy. I would live in it
 The very conception of America il 2 based upon the validity of the tudg l ments of average men and I call vol
 to witness that there have been man, 7. exceptions in American history I cal l you to witness that the average judg f mert of the voters of the Unite' 0 States have been sound judgments . call you to witness that this grea = impulse of the common opinion ha . been n lifting impulse and not a de f pressing impulse What is the oh f iect of associations like that whic f Is gathered here today. this sales if manship congress? The moral of , is that few men cannot determin a the interests of large body of me = and that the only way to determtn !. them and advance them is to hay |, a representative assembly chosen h
 , themselves. get together and talk 1 common counsel regarding them An ' do you not notice that in every gres u occupation in the United States thel u is beginning to be more and more U the common impulse and have yc not noticed that the more commc '' counsel you have the higher tl ie standards are that are insisted upo re q attended the other day the cor l. gress of the advertising men, and the