Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-28
HENRYFORD VOTE
GOING TO WILSON
Detroit Manufacturer, Although a Re-
publican, Announces He VIII Sup
port President.
S AGAINST UNSEEN HANDS
Manufacturer Declares That Eight
Hour Law Is Best for Business
and for Humanity.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 28.-Declaring
the eight-hour day is good thing for
business and that he "can prove it,"
and that President Wilson is keeping
the unseen hands" off the govern
ment, Henry Ford today announced
that he would vote for Woodrow Will
son for president.
I'm for wilson," said Ford, "be-
cause he is on to the interests-the
unseen hands that seek to control
government. That he is holding them
off is proven by his refusal TO rush in
to war with Mexico, sacrificing the
lives of thousands of young Americans
TO save the dollars that Wall street
has invested in Mexico on a gamble.
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 forcing a great roar about the
/ eight-hour law and how it will hamper
/ business. I say-and I say from ex-
/ perience, not from guess work, that
/ the eighC-hOur law will help business.
/ Business men and employers who
| are hostile to the eight-hOur day do not
/ know their business. We have had the
1 eight-hOur day in force in the Ford
/ factory for three years and we have
I maze more iuOueN GdClt EutICCuAhS
year under it. It has proven its own
merit.
THE business of the United States
today has a momentum that no man or
( group Of men can stop. AS for the tar
/ if, which the republicans insist must
/ be revised to help save our prosperity
after the war, ] want to say that the
tariff is nothing but dollhouse rem
| edy. It may make business sprOut for
&c 1~~i ilI
( and it never can produce permanent
business plant
Il know Hughes. Teddy and Wall
/ street are behind him. I'm republic
can. but I'm for Wilson. I'm repub-
HCan for the same reason l have ears
/ was born that way But I'm for Will
I son because I believe he can do more
to enhance the prosperity and assure
/ peace for this nation than any other
candidate Anyone who does not want
peace and who wants to gamble with
prosperity should vote against him"
Friend of American WOrkmen.
Chicago. Sept. Commenting on
Henry Ford's endorsement OF Presl-
dent Wilson. Charles X. Crane, nTesl-
dent OF the Wilson Business Mems Ma
tional league. said today: The state
ment of Mr.. Ford is excellent. 1t has
particular value just now, as Mr.. Ford
is great practical democrat. He does
, not leave his faith. He lives it. He is
the most inteIligentIy helpful friend
the American workmen have. He has
/ demonstrated in most convincing fash
, ion that short hours and high wages
produce the greatest industrial effect.
/ Although making a strictly compeu-
tive article sold all over the earth, he
, does not join the republican whine Tor
higher and still higher tariff and he
has no sort of patience with the cow
ardIv doctrine with which they are
! now trying to buncO the American Peo-
pie. viz: that poor. broken, democrat
. lied. bankrupt Europe, in some magic
way is going to be a more menacing
T competitor after the war is over than
she was before"