The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-07-15
BUSINESS NEED NOT fElR.1
If HONEST, DEMOCRATIC ADMIN.
ISTRATION WILL NOT MOLESr
1T SAYS WILSON.
PRESIDENT Says That Friendly Feeling
Is Felt for Legitimate Enterprise
Urges Peaceful Common Sense Set
uements OF Industrial Problems.

Detroit, Mich, July 1O.-President
wilson urged peace reached by mu-
tual understanding rather than force
and defended the Democratic party
as friend of business in speeches to-
day to enthusiastic Michigan audi.
ences. Detroit's streets were lined
with thousands Of persons who shout
ed greetings and waved American
f1ags at him wherever he appeared
The hall in which he spoke to the
worlds Salesmanship congress was
damned, an audience estimated at &c.
900 greeted him at the Ford motor
plant and tonight In Toledo another
throng listened to his brief platform
address
Peace" was the shouted response
OF the salesmanship audience when
the president asked them what they
desired when the present world strug-
giles are at an end. And he added that
permanent peace was his desire.
At non-partisan luncheon in the
Detroit Athletic club the president
sprang to the defense of the Demo-
Gratis. A prominent Republican had
told him during the day that he had
been deriving pleasure from associa-
ton with Democrats. and the execu-
tive recited the incident and declared
that he long had enjoyed the friend
ship and companionship OF Republi-
cans, because, being teacher, he
would like to teach them something"
I'VE have been trying, some OF us.
for a good many years to teach In
politics, as well as elsewhere, this
lesson. that we are all in the same
boat" he said. I'VE have common
interests. and it is our business to un-
derstand and serve those common in
terests.
II dare say that you have noticed
that the same necessity to make liv-
ing is imposed upon Democrats and
Republicans. and I dare say you are
ready to believe that Democrats are
just " willing to make a good living
as Republicans. Therefore, it seems
to ME logically to follow. though I
have been quoted as having no regard
for logic, that Democrats are natu-
ally as much Interested in the busi-
ness prosperity Of the United States
as anybody else So that If you be-
lieve that they are not as fitted to
guide It as other persons. you can not
be doubling their interests; you are
only itnpugning their intelligence"
The suspicion is beginning to
dawn" he added. ''that the average
man understands the business neces-
stiles Of the country as well as the
extraordinary man.
IAN act" he added, "was recently
passed in congress that some Of the
most intelligent business men Of this
country earnestly opposed = men
whom I knew, men whose character
] trusted, men whose integrity 1 abb
solutely believed in. 1 refer to the
federal resrve act by which we in
tended, and succeeded in taking credit
out Of the control 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 Conscientious
ly now admit that it saved the coun-
try from a ruinous panic when the
stress of war came on and that 1t is
the salvation of every average busi-
ness man who is in the midst of the
tides that have been trying to de-
scribe.
| What does that mean gentlemen?
1t means that you can get settled
point of view and can conscientious
ly oppose progress If you do not need
progress yourself. That is what it
means. am not impugning the in
telligence even of the men who op-
posed these things because the same
thing happens to every man If he is
not of extraordinary makeup, that he
can not see the necessity for a thing
that he does not himself need. When
you have abundant credit and con-
troll Of credit, you of course, do not
need that the area of credit should be
broadened."