Semi-weekly herald., 1916-07-27
CRITICISM OF FORD

| Aenry fOTu, tne man tnat mas man
ufae;.rcd and sold so may cars in
this country and who went to Europe
with IA peace party only TO be laugh
ed at by many. is receiving his share
Of the public criticism today.
We are not so sure that he should
receive all the criticism he is getting.
We think that whatever mistakes he
has made have been Of the head
rather than of the heart. Perhaps
he has brooded over the question of
war until he has become a peace fa-
natic.
Regardless of his good intentions
he has been criticised rather severely.
Some even call him an enemy of the
country. His influence is perhaps
not the best for the country at this
stage of the worlds history. He is
altogether out of joint with his fei-
low-countrymen who feel that this
nation can not afford to place iself
at the mercy of a war mac. I'D in
order to hold up an ideal.
The San Francisco Bulletin gives
Publication to the following:
According to returned members of
the Ford expedition, it was the val
cule of the American press that pre-
vented the peace party from doing as
much good as it might have done. OF
the sixty newspaper writer's who went
on Mr.. Ford's ship as his guests all
but few used the opportunity to
make joke Of their host, and their
fellow-travelers, and the purposes for
which the expedition was sent out.
The Telegram awells at length on
Ford in the following article:
We will admit that some men in
this country have apparently gone
crazy over war and military prepared
ness, but after all are they SO danger
Gus to American manhood as some of
those who have entirely lost their
reason and all sense of honor for the
nation in their blind pursuit of peace
at any cost?
Take Henry Ford, for instance. He
was not content to make his fellow
Americans the laughing stock of
Europe, by his silly junKer across the
seas in the name of peace, but now
he has become so fanatical in his
peace ideas that he is actually trying
to block the machinery of this gov
ernment in protecting the lives of
| Americans along the border of Mex
leo. From Detroit comes the dispatch
which says that Ford, in line with his
pacifist policy, has announced that
any employees of his motor car COM
pany who are members of the Michi
gan national guard will not only not
receive pay while absent on duty for
their government, but will forfeit
their places in his factory. Many of
Ford's employees intend to enlist as
recruits of the guard and they will
likewise relinquish their places to the
staff. Mr.. Ford's chief assistant is
quoted as saying:
we would be sorry to see any of
our men resign to enlist in the guard,
but both recruits and state militia
men will be treated alike--as though
they quit the plant to engage in
other lines of business"
When we consider that Henry Ford
has made so much money out of this
great country that he was able to
raise the wages of his employees SO
that even the men who swept out
his factory received not less than So
day, we cannot excuse his new
order on any account of economy.
Ford's factory and his millions
would not be safe if other Americans
should assume the attitude that he
has taken with regard to prepared
ness and the upholding of American
honor.
When an American citizen, enjoy
ing all the safeguards and all the
blessings that citizenship in this
great republic affords, will do any
thing he can in his power to thwart
the efforts Of his country to protect