Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-06-17
FORD SAYS ENEMIES
TRIED TO GET HIM"

in an autIlo!lLeu- pti"oh"t i|''N' ~
Ford officials all over hte country,
tells the exact financial CONDITION
of the Ford Company and explains
Jewish attacks in his magazine, the
Dearborn Independent. The lettef
lis the first answer to published re-
ports about financial difficulties OF
the Ford Company and the first Of
fetal explanation of the antl-JeW-
iish propaganda in Ford papers. The
letter is signed by his secretary.
A significant statement in the
letter. regarded as explaining the
large number of designations from
1.-The company early this year, Is
that Mr.. Ford did not deny pub
llished difficulties because he want
! ed to discover where and how that
story started, and he did.
The letter states that the Ford
Company has borrowed no money
| from the banks, as was reported,
and that the enormous transaction
| of buying out his stockholders Tor
500, 600 900 has been fully consum-
mated According to the letter. the
| last of the notes involved in this
deal We're fully paid recently be
lfore maturity. 1t characterizes the
whole story OF financial difficulties
las utterly false. a hoax by the press.
The full text of the letter, writ
ten in the third person. follows:
"Gentlemen-Th most of
publication in the United States to-
day is the Dearborn Independent.
| No Ford official doubts that he
probably hears about it more than
he cares to sometimes, and that IS
what we want to talk to you about.
THE Dearborn Independent Is
Henry Ford's own paper and he au-
thorizes every statement occurring
therein. One proof of the yirility
| of the Dearborn Independent is the
enemies it has made. Henry Ford
has always had enemies. He made
lenemies when he sinale-handed
/
which sought to restrict auto man
iufacture under the so-called Selden
patent.
He made enemies when he vol
UNFAIRLY raised the minimum wage
of the country TO the highest point
| il has ever reached. and then raised
lit again. He made enemies when
he proclaimed his horror of war. lie
made enemies again when he threw
his whole energies into winning the
war and refused to take 4 dollar
for it for himself. There are a
Hot of persons and interests in this
Icountry who would like to see it
proved that business cannot be run
lon the Ford idea.
''You have q most illuminating
lexamplc of it in recent months. You
remember when the whispering
Icampaign' started with its slogan
Wen get Ford A little later ii
broke in deluge of newspaper re
ports that the Ford organization was
lin financial difficulties.
"You did not see any denials, did
you? Mr. Ford was watching the
progress OF that storm of propaSan-
da across the country. deaf to the
Iappeals of the press association fol
lone word from him that would lei
them down gracefully from the
HOAX they had perpetrated on the
lcountry. He wanted to discover
whore and how that storm started
land he did
THE whole story was false. Ey-
cry banker in the United States who
was at all conversant with the Ford
Financial status knew it was false.
mir. Ford was not asking for g
dollar. although more money than
IVAN street controls was offered
him for the notes involved in the
transaction of buying out his stock
holders. an enormous transaction
Involving 800. 100000.
The last of these notes wcr;
lpatu Be1Orc MA tUfllN. ON ulu nv
see any aplurge about that in thu
paper. did YOU?
"A man of whom it was sale
1.-TWO months ago. We've got him,
iclears himself of every financial OBJ
litigation in an enormous sum, ant
yet il is not news to the interests
that will never forgive Henry Fore
for introducing the square deal il
business. Perhaps you will under
lstand now some of the enmity visit
ed in the Dearborn Independent.
People ask you every day. per
haps. a question which runs lik'
Ithis, "Why is Henry Ford attacking
the Jews?' The answer is. Their
us no attack and no campaign
against the Jews
1.-THE Jewish question. as ever,
business man knows, has been fes
tering in silence and suspicion her
lin the United States for a long tim
and none has dared to discuss i
because Jewish influence was stron: