The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-09

0MXS tn threw a fit" to use popularity expressly language ant
AS then stepped in it Ford. the members of the association de-
chred. "a "outs to ruin them. Instead of running anybody, he greatly
in the light of subsequent events, that he did any harm to himself Anyway,
he is willing to try it again. Concerning the wage increase Henry Ford
said that it al "only a just reward to the mn who remained loyal to the
company" The unniiated might wonder why 10 other great manufac-
turing and Industrial institutions neglect to give the same policy a trial,
1t VA IL writersp pleasure to know Henry Ford during the days of his
struggling; the days Off dicule, mostly, they were. And even in the face of a
astounding success including bestowal of undspued benefits upon mankind,
the ridcue survives; and it coners little credit upon those who indulge it
Moreover, it does nothing lore to Henry Ford than to make him ever more
popular and useful For Ford is a "a of principle, and ridicule cannot
prevail where principle is involved Ford as impervfous to ridicule when,
in Detroit, he drove his first tiny automobile about the strees-a contrapton
which looked not unlike a large-szed perambulator. Later, when h auto-
mobile was a admitted fact lie declared he would produce a machine which
would go a mile a minute. Again the mossbacks denied that a mn could
possibly do something which had never been done before.
The first attempt which the writer witnessed to make a n automobile u
a mile a minute on the frozen surface Oft the edge of Lake St Clair and
the Detroit river. Ford and some mechanicians shod a car with spiked belts
around the tires, and took it up the lake about three miles n day when the
ice was glare. 1t was planned, as we remember it, to take a mile fol the
start, time the second mile. and use the third fol stopping and they needed
all of that third. and then some. In fact, it IA a lucky thing the frozen
expanse of the river was available when the foot of the lake "a reached.
for the automobile, with spiked tires off, skddng like a mad thing over
the ie. Henry Ford almost skidded home that time. 1t wa generally
admitted a speed of a mile a minute as not attained, but there a excite
ment enough to make up for the failure!
car which he thought might make the speed o a perfect roadbed. Again
,s low. nothing hnt ~ e-tnn had hen housht of in gasoline
engines. Laughed at and scorned by professed wise men, Ford kept right
along working ut his W ideas, and the world is the beneficiary.
Now. n o more did Ford bow to public opinion" when he went into
politics" He had the audaciy o tell the august managers of the Democrat
party that he would accept the nomination rendered him, nut he would make
n o campaign. If Michigan people wanted him fol senator they might vte
for him. Again it a the writer's privilege to witness political developments
in Michigan last year The people wanted Ford but they could not resist
money; at east a sufficient number of them oui OF Fords opponent
a declared elected, but the end is not yet Monday, the vice-president of
the United states lad De1Ore M senate a peuuOn IN WHICH henry fOru.
Democrat. "a formal notice that he would contest the election of Truman
H. Newberry, Republican, to a seat in the United States Senate, and asked
fr a recount of ballots. Excessive use Of money in Newberrys campaign,
intimidation of voters, improper rejection of ballots, fragrant violation of
Michigan election laws, and many other charges (after the manner Of law
yers) were made in the petition signed by Ford.
OF course this part OF the program is all Republican and Democrat poll
tics. Henry Ford. probably. cares nothing about the matter Probably he
knows he was elected, but is willing to let the politicians scrap it out if
they want to- The u.s. of money in the NewberTy campaign ws so careless
in Detroit last summer that it a laughed about OF the streets, most people
never believing he had a chance against Mchigans idol Meeting ar old
acquaintance o n the street the writer asked him how he was getting along.
The ma is a newspaper cartoonist. "Oh Il am nut of a job just now" was
the reply, "bt I should worry-Im making cartoons for papas fat headed
boy for a hundred dollars a throw"
Everybody has seen the pages of laudatory articles about Newberry in
sue great publications a Golfers, for instance. And n o newspaper man
believes those articles we're spontaneous. They we're. in fact, sickening to
anyon who knew the facts wherewith they purported to DEAL Republicans
in the national Congress cn scarcely afford to seat Newberry in the face
Of ven a fraction of the evidence which might be produced against him.
Henry Ford is more Democrat than he is Republican. The man of pnn-
cne will win-even in the United States Senate, where, it must be admitted
money has talked. upon occasion.