French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-05
WHY FORD WILL VOTE
FOR WOODROW WILSON
Says He is Supporting the President
Because Wall Street is Against
Him-AdamsOn S-Hour Law.

The statement of Henry Ford, the
automobile manufacturer. giving his
reasons for supporting President VIII
son in preference to the Republican
candidate is as follows:
ITO begin with I'm supporting Will
son because Wall Street is support
ing the other man, Or, rather, because
Wall street is against Wilson.
I'm for Wilson because he is 'on to-
the interests-the unseen hands that
seek to control government and is
holding them off, That he is 'on to-
them and is holding them off is prov
ed by his refusal to rush into war
I with Mexico, sacrificing the lives of
+, thousands of young Americans TO save
F; the dollars that Wall street has in
vested in Mexico on gamble.
For this one reason alone the ma
tion is under an DBL cation to return
Wilson to the White house.
"But for purely business reasons,
which may appeal more directly to
many men, the welfare of the country
demands Wilson's reelection. The
Republicans are raising a great roar
about the eight-hour low and how it
will hamper business.
81 say-and 1 speak from expert
ence, not from guess work-that the
eight-hour law will help business.
''The employers of the country
should be as enthusiast cally behind
Wilson in his advocacy of the eight
hour day as the workers, and they
would be if they knew their business.
For employers who are hostile to the
! o. n 6ou do 10 -
business.
we have had the eight-hour day in
| force in the Ford factory for three
years, and we have made more money
each succeeding year under it. It has.
proved it's own merit.
Republicans are arguing that when
the war ends all our prosperity will
cease-unless we have, a Republican
in the White house.
81 deny first that war is responsible
for the present prosperity. The Ford
/ company has not taken dollar of war
contracts has refused them time af-
ter time-and yet our business has
grown constantly and we are now
/ 200 600 cars behind orders.
'.The business of the United States
today has a momentum that no. man
Or group of men can Stop.
'As for the tariff, which Republi-
cans insist must be revised to help.
save our prosperity after war, l want
to say that the tariff is nothing but a.
hothouse remedy. 1t may make bus
mess sprout for a little while, but it's
effect is artificial and it can never
! produce a hardy, permanent business,
plant.
''If we cannot compete on even
terms with any country on earth, then
we ought to quit. There is absolute
ly no necessity for hard times. There
is enough in this world to do for
everybody, and this country always
will find enough to do if the interests
and Wall street will keep hands off
and not rob the many and enrich the
few.
II believe the President 1t the nail
on the head in a recent speech when
he said:
""The relations of capital and labor
must be regarded as human rela--
tionship Of men with men. Labor
must be regarded as part Of the gen
eral partnership of energy which is
going to make for the success Of busi~
ness men and business enterprise.
when We get somewhere near that
bas s the real cause of hard times will
disappear. And believe that Wilson
as President VIII do more to bring an
approach to those conditions than
Hughes.
q know Hughes. Teddy and Wall
street are behind him
I'm Republican. but I'm for Will
son. I'm a Republican for the same
! reason 1 have ears-I was born that
way. But I'm for Wilson because 1
believe he can do more to enhance the
prosperity and insure the peace of this
nat on than any other candidate. Any
one who does not want peace, and
who wants to gamble with prosperity,
| should vote against him"