South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-11
WILSON DEFENDS
HIS PA RTY IN
DETROIT SPEECH
Declares it is a Friend of Bus
mess and Also Seeks to
Make a Good
Living.

DETROIT. July 11.-Pres't Wilson
urged peace reached by mutual I'M
Outstanding rather than force and
defended the democratic party as a
friend Of business IN speeches Mon
day TO enthusiastic Michigan audi
ences. Detroit streets were lined
with thousands OF persons who
shouted greetings and waved Ameri-
can flags at him wherever ne ap-
peared. The hall IN which he spoke
20 the Worlds Salesmanship congress
was damned. an audience estimated
at $4,000 greeted him at the Ford
plant and Monday night. in Toledo.
another thrOns listened TO his brief
rear platform address.
Peace" was the shouted response
OF the craftsmanship audience when
the president asked them what they
desired when the present world
struggles are at an end. And he add
ed that permanent peace was his
desire.
Defends Democrats.
At a partisan luncheon in the
Detroit Athletic club. the president
y
Gratis A prominent republican had
told him during the GAY that he had
been deriving pleasure from associa-
tion with democrats and the eXecu~
tive recited the incident and decIar-
ed that he long had enjoyed the
and cornpanionship Of re-
publicans. because being a teacher
he would like 10 teach them some
thing"
we 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 The great difficulty
that has confronted us. gentlemen,
has often been that we have deliber-
ately looked at these common inter-
ests 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
US wanted TO exalt business.
All Would Make Living.
81 dare say that YOU have noticed
that the same Necessity TO make a
living is imposed upon democrats as
republicans. and / dare say you are
ready 20 believe that democrats are
Just as willing TO make a good living
as republicans. Therefore. Z seems
20 me logically TO follow, though
have been quoted as having no re-
gard for logic. that democrats are
naturally as much interested in the
Of nj
states as anybody else. So that il
you believe that they are not as tit
ted to guide ii as other persons. YOU
cannot be doubling their interest;
YOU are only impugning their intel
lgence."
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
so / invite your thoughts" he
lin what l sincerely be-
lieve to be an entirely non partisan
spirit 10 the democracy of business.
An act was recently passed in
that some OF the most in
telligent business men of this ccun-
try earnestly opposed whom 1
knew. men whose character / trust
ed. men whose sincerity 1 absolutely
believed in / refer to the federal
reserve act. by which we intended,
and succeeded. in taking credit out
OF the control of a small NUM- Der
Of men and making it available to
everybody who had real com mercial
assets, and the very men who Op-
posed that act. and opposed il con-
nov admit that IL saved
the country from a ruinous panic
when the stress OF war came on and
that il is the salvation Of every aver
age business man who is in the
midst of the tides that I have been
trying TO describe.