The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-06
READ THIS, MR.. REPUBLICAN

Henry Ford visited President Will
son Monday and pledged his support
to him, although he has been a re-
publican in the past. No stronger
argument for the reelection of Will
son has been made by anyone than
what Ford said last week when he
first publicly declared his intention
to support the president for re-elec-
ton. Just read these extracts from
Ford's statement and think them
over:
ITO begin WITH" declared Ford,
''I'm supporting Wilson because Wall
street is supporting 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
proven by his refusal to rush into
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.
''For this one reason alone the ma
ton is under an obligation to return
Wilson to the white house.
Republicans are arguing that pres
ent prosperity is unhealthy, that it is
wholly due to war and that when the
war ends all of our prosperity will
cease-unless we have a Republican
in the white house.
Il deny first that war is RESPONSE
BILE for the present prosperity in this
country. The Ford company has not
taken a dollar of war contracts-has
refused them time after time and
yet our business has grown constant
ly and we are now 100000 cars be-
hind 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 Repub-
licans insist must be revised to help
have our prosperity after the war,
want to say that the tariff is nothing
but dollhouse remedy.
at may make business sprout for
little while, but its effect is artifi-
cial and it can never produce hardy,
permanent business plant.
eff we cannot compete on even
terms with any country on earth,
then we ought to quit. There is abso-
lutely no necessity for hard times
There is enough in this world for ev-
erybody and this country always will
find enough to do if the special in
hands off and not rob the many to
enrich the few.
81 believe the president hit the nail
on the head in his speech to the New
Jersey business men last week when
he said:
"The relation of capital and labor
must be regarded as a 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
business men and business enter
prises.'
when we get somewhere near
that basis the real cause of hard
times will appear.
"And l believe that Wilson, as
president, will do more to bring an
approach to those conditions than
Hughes.
81 know Hughes. Teddy and Wall
street are behind him.
4" Pm a Republican, But Pm for
Wilson. Pm a Republican for the
same reason l have ears-I was born
that way. But Pm for Wilson be-
cause / believe he can do more to en-
nance the prosperity and insure the
peace of this nation than any other
candidate. Anyone who does not want
peace, and who wants to gamble with
prosperity, should vote against him"