The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-07-11

do not look 100 close at the little pro-
ceSSes with which you are concerned,
but let your thoughts and your lmaGin-
ations run abroad throughout me
whole world. and with the inspiration
of the thought that you are Americans
and are meant to carry liberty and JUS
tice and the principles Of humanity
wherever you go. go out and sell goods
that will make the world more com
Portable and more happy, and convert
them TO the principles of America.
DETROIT. Mich, July 10.-President
Wilson urged peace reached by mutual
understanding rather than force and
defended the Democratic party as
friend OF business in his speech today
to enthusiastic Michigan audiences.
The hall in which he spoke to the
worlds craftsmanship congress was
damned. an audience estimated at 3D.
600 greeted him at the Ford motor
plant and tonight in Toledo another
throng listened TO lbs brief rear plat
form address.
Peace" was the shouted response
OF the craftsmanship audience when the
President asked them what they de-
slider when the present world strug-
giles are at an end. And he added
that permanent peace" was his de-
sire.
At a non-partisan luncheon in the
Detroit Athletic Club the President
sprang TO the defense of the Demo-
Gratis. \ prominent Republican had
told him during the day that he had
been deriving pleasure from assocla-
ton with Democrats and the executive
recited the incident and declared that
he long had enjoyed the friendship and
companionship of Republicans. be
cause being a teacher, he would like
TO teach them something. We have
been trying. some OF Ills. for good
many years to teach In politics. as
we'll as elsewhere. this lesson, that we
are all in the same boat, he said.
I'VE have common interests. and ii is
our business TO understand and serve
those common interests. The great
difficulty that has confronted IFS. gen.
tlempn, has often been that we have
deliberately looked at these common
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 10 depress business,
for example. and others of us wanted
to exact business
Same Necessity.
Il dare say that you have noticed
that the same necessity TO make a liV-
ing is imposed upon Democrats as Re.
publicans, and | dare say you are
ready to believe that Democrats are
just as willing 10 make a good living
as Republicans. Therefore, it seems
to me- logically 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 any
body else. So that if you believe that
they are not as fitted to guide il as
other persons, you cannot be doubling
their interests: you are only impugnlng
their intelligence.
THE suspicion is beginning to dawn.
he added, that the average man knows
the business necessities of the country
as we'll as the extraordinary man.
$50 invite your thoughts" he con-
tinued lin what sincerely believe to
he an entirely non-partisan spirit 10
the Democracy Of business. An act
was recently passed in congress that
some Of the most intelligent business
men OF this country earnestly OPP
character trusted, men whose integ-
rity I absolutely believed in. I refer
to the federal reserve act by which
We intended and succeeded, in taking
credit out OF the control Of a small
number Of men and making it avail
able to everybody who had real COM
mercial assets. and the very men who
opposed that act. and oppose it con-
scientiously. now admit that 1t saved
the country from a ruinous panic
when the stress Of war CAME on, and
that 1T is the salvation of every avail
able business man who is in the midst
of tides that l have been trying to de-
scribe.
Can Be Honest Opponent.
What does that mean gentlemen?
It means that you can get a settled
point Of view and can conscientiously
oppose progress If you do not need pro
gress yourself. That is what it means.
I am not impugning the intelligence
even OF the men who oppose these
things. because the same thing hap
pens to every man If he is not of az
traordinary makeup, that he cannot
see the necessity for thing that he
does not himself need. When you have
abundant credit and control of credit.
you. OF course, do not need that the
area Of credit should be broadened."
Talks at Toledo.
TOLEDO, Ohio, July 10--"The
United States will go 10 war only in
case OF unmistakable necessity" said
President Wilson in a five minute talk
at the Union station here this after
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