The Idaho recorder., 1922-02-10
HENRY FORD WANTS
TO BE PRESIDENT

Henry Ford has Presidentitis, the
acute disease that comes to nearly ev-
cry successful man at some stage of
his career if he ever gets close enough
to politics to give the germ chance.
There has been no announcement of
his candidacy yet, naturally, but the
political specialists have detected the
symptoms and realize that there is
nothing to be done but allow the at
tack to run it's course.
They suspected that he had been at
tackled during the Senatorial election
where Mr.. Newberry outspent him;
their diagnosis was confirmed when
Mr.. Ford began his series of pronun-
ciamentos on public questions, notably
when he made his attack on the Jews,
for no opening could be palmer, from
a Fordian viewpoint, than the oppor-
tunity to prevent the tribes of Aaron
from accomplishing their purpose of
dominating the world.
Mr.. Ford's recent declaration in re-
spect to the worlds monetary system,
and the inference that he has the
remedy for the worlds industrial and
financial troubles, are all corrobora-
ltfC. IlNCtl Ills Oi.i IOl V1QOClC OHOeilc
bears on his ambition, for Muscle
Shoals means nitrates and nitrates
mean much to the farmer in this era
of high priced fertilizers. The graft
tude Of the farmers means more votes
than any other individual impulse in
this country today.
To man whose speciality is to take
great resources uneconomically hand
led-railroads, the Muscle Shoals en-
terprise, the (prospective) waste bat
tleships-the thought of that great
reservoir of votes represented by the
embittered farmers being allowed to
run loose, with only the uncertain ele-
ment of the agricultural bloc in Con-
gross to capitalize it, must represent
an irresistible temptation.
Henry Ford showed Wall street
that he could be Independent of it in
money; what more natural than that
he should essay similar tilt with the
political trust that has dealt out Pres
idencies in the past?
AS far as issue, there are issues ly-
ing around as thick as international
complications. The Newberry case is
one of them that comes readily to his
hand. He has the purchase of a Sem
atorship, the beneficiary seated in
spite of resolution expressing the
horror of the United States Senate at
the means by which the Newberry
election was brought about. Every
iniquity involves martyr and while
Mr.. Ford may seem little incongru-
Gus in the part, he did run against
Newberry.
Politicians were little in doubt as
to what allied MIR. Ford until the ap-
pearance of book that is just begin
ming to be circulated. This is "The
Truth About Henry Ford" by Sarah
T. Bushnell. Nobody had notion
that an unreal Henry Ford had been
masquerading around, but that is the
accepted way of getting a picture of
a great man before the public.
1t is q sure-enough campaign docu-
ment, one of those From Railsplitter
to President" productions, calculated
to show the close sympathy and SEN
timental identity of the subject with
the great heart of the plain Ameri-
can people.
In it are documents and explana-
tions that make clear that the author
got her information at first hand, but
in it are also innumerable paragraphs
to show how completely the subject
of the book meets the demand for the
right kind of public servant.
Mr.. Ford believes that wealth is a
trust and strives to use it accordingly
for the betterment of the workers-he
prefers to raise industrial standards
rather than to make more millions"