The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-07-11
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
| FRIEND OF BUSINESS
WILSON ASKS COUNTRY TO WIN
OTHER NATIONS TO
AMERICA.


understanding rather than force and dc
tended the Democratic policy as a frien
: ,oI business in speeches yesterday t.
enthusiastic Michigan audiences. De
trolt streets were lined with thou
SANDS of persons who shouted greet
lngs and waved American flags a
him whenever he appeared. The hal
in which he spoke to the World.
Craftsmanship Congress was damned
Jan audience estimated at 10000 greet
ed him at the Ford motor plant anC
. tonight in Toledo another throng listen
Led TO his brief rear platform address
Peace" was the shouted response O.
the craftsmanship audience wnen ,he
president asked them what thew de
sired when the present world struggir.
iare at an end. And he added that
f'permanent peace" was his desire.
AT non-partisan luncheon in the De
troit Athletic Club the President
Sprang to the defense of the Demo
Gratis. A prominent republican had
Itold him during the day that he had
.been deriving pleasure from associa.
HON with Democrats, and the President
iTecited the incident and declared that
ihe long had enjoyed the friendship
| and cOmpaniOnship of Republicans. be-
cause, 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 les
son, that we are all in the same boat"
The said I'VE have common interests.
hnd it is our business to understand
Land serve those common interests.
The great difficulty that has confront
cd us, gentlemen, has often been that
1--WE have deliberately looked at these
icOmmOn 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
Jus wanted to exalt business.
All Equally Interested
81 daresay that you have noticed that
the same necessity to make a living is
imposed upon Democrats and Republi
cans, and | dare say you are ready TO
believe that Democrats are just as viii.
ing to make a good living as Republic.
cans. Therefore, it seems to me lOgt
cally to follow, though | have been
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
fitted to guide it as other persons, |
you cannot be doubling their interest, I
you are only impugning their intelli- |
gence"
The suspicion is beginning to dawn,
he added, that the average man I'M
derstands the business necessities OF /
the country as we'll as the eXtraordin- t
airy man.
80 | 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, men whose char
acter | trusted, men whose integrity
absolutely believed in. | refer to the
federal reserve act by which we in :,
tended and succeeded, in taking cred
it out of the control of small num-
Der 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
". 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 Dus-
mess man who is in the midst of the
tides that | have been trying TO de
scribe.
Men Who Oppose Progress.
'yNhat does that mean, gentlemen!
1t means that.you can get settled
point of view and con COnscientlously
oppose progress if you do not need pro-
gress yurself. That is what it means.
I am not impugning the intelligence
even of the men who opposed these
things, because the same thing hap !
pens to every man if he is not OF
extraordinary makeup, that he cannot