Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-15
THE FORD ADVERTISEMENT

district to be Independent thinkers on
matters affecting them and their fami-
lies interests.
The workingman-this giant who
makes and pulls the ma
Chinery of all industry and to whom
the capitalistic munitions making
class would not leave a cog of his
own workmanship particularly is be-
coming a student Of social conditions
because of Mr.. Tavenner's efforts. And
as there is no stopping of an idea
once it has taken root, the man who
has the door of his intellect opened to
the necessity of his being alert as
we'll as Industrious will continue I'M
assisted to the truth. Ideas grow and
bear fruit. But a man first must turn
a receptive mind toward the warm
sun of truthful investigation and keep
faithfully to the best interests of his
class if he would get anywhere with
his learning
Much as it is derided as being i'm
possible in free America" there is,
nevertheless, a decided tendency-if
not acknowledgement the fostering Of
class distinction and it has been
brought out sharply in the promises
made to the Navy league by numerous
manufacturers that their" employees
would be sure to join soidiery pre-
| paration. Of course. it is possible
with an unopened eye to see how they
could make good on such assertions.
! Your job or a gun to your shoulder
might be the demand. 1t is to this
! justiiable cowardice of a man I'M
willing to suffer his family starvation
| that the capitalistic class ever has
turned to complete any dirty job it
ever undertook.
| Workers of America must organize
! for mutual protection just as insist
emily as the leeches have organized to
protect the dollars wrested from la
boris output and made off labor's
hide. When a portion of undeveloped
country is parceled it is men not dol
/ lars that are in demand The pioneer
with brain and hand his only equip
ment sets the ground in motion and
his bones whiten the prairies before
the scene is thought propitious for the
coming of the cushioned leisured
class. Dollars dumped by the car
loads in waste places will not grow
grain nor gather anything but tar
nish. Ignorant foreigners any
scraps of humanity, dumped by the
carloads will make the desert bloom
and for the other fellow. 1t is to make
the earth bloom for himself and his
| loved ones that Henry Ford, Clyde
Tavenner and other decent men and
women are doing monumental work
| of love in educating the worker TO
sensing of his possibilities.
The method by which this is to be
accomplished is SO simple its strength
| has been belittled. 1t is the develop
ments of mans consciousness of his
right to labor and his inalienable
right to the product of that labor. 1t
| is a lesson that could as we'll been
learned by the workers Of Europe
with a minimum Of bloodshed in com
parison to the river of red that has
ensued because they did not heed the
encroachment Of the luxury-living
ruling class Now all classes are meet
ing determination, the only hope left
being that out of the dead will be
quickened the abolition of a profit sys-
TEN: in other words, cooperation. Co
operation in industry, an equal event
button of the necessaries of life event
ually must be the standard of civili-
cation and none but the workers may
bring it about.
i Henry Ford's advice on the NUM-
tons question and soldiery is the
most wholesome thing man coulG
take. His great effort in behalf of
humanity will go for naught unless
each conscientious man and woman
does as he suggests-use every oppor-
tunity to voice a decision the United
States remain the Queen Of Liberty
and Righteousness.