White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-29
THE FORD

LIE Oultcu otdttS. oSpCNloAiy ONoA hiN
tremendous showing he made in q
recent straw vote. running right
around President Harding, the next
highest, by almost two to one.
Charles n. Hilles, head of the re-
publican national committee, who
managed one of the Taft campaigns,
in those words declares the Ford
candidacy to be a n The dem
ocratic management, over his re-
markable showing, is equally panic
stricken.
Yet these oracles, who have the
presumption to undertake to guide
the political thought of 100000
people, have committed the school
boy error of being frightened at the
effect and have completely forgotten
that there is such a thing as a cause
The Ford phenomenon is a mere eff
fect-a symptom, il you p~lease--and
the cause lies back in the m%isgovern-
ment of the last several years, which
has fostered the condition of mind
of which it is the evidence.
For upward of a generation these
men, who are supposed to have a mo-
nopoly of political wisdom and what
is best for the common people, have
preached a doctrine of special privi-
lege. They have demanded that the
laws of this nation be tempered to
favor the rich, claiming that capital
must be encouraged and that the
Door and the masses could take car
of themselves, proiting best thereby.
These laws have gone to lengths that
no nation ever before ventured upon
and far beyond even where lawmak-
ers lave feared to tread the fool
courts have rushed in.
What has irritated the people still
more is the ever presence of a faction
of corporation feet-lickers, who are
to be found w%orshiping at the toe
nails of any aggregation of men
wearing the livery OF big business
and masquerading behind a more or
less %gTandiCse assemblage OF marble
counters, wickets, adding machines
and b%ewildering figures in the form
of capitalization, along with a studied
aloofness upon the part of its men
servants to awe the public, and in
short to play the part.
There is one thing to be said to
Mr.. Hilles and to all of those polit-
zeal superpersonages who are fright
ened over the Ford thundcrbolt: Go
and remove the cause. Let any party
which takes charge OF this govern
ment just once show an honest in
tention of doing something in the
interest Of the common people, the
men and women who have the votes,
even as Andrew Jackson and Abra-
ham Lincoln, two men of the people,
did when power was placed in their
hands.
1t was some eleven or twelve years
ago that that tool of reaction and
special privilege, brother of a thirty
millionaire. William II. Taft, while
sitting in the white house, sail that
there were hosts of American people
who expected impossibilities of their
president. all such wishes being far
beyond the warrant of law, and
claimed that the president really had
slight power to do the very things
that he in his previous campaign had
promised to do for the alienation of
the masses. All know that Ford is
a mere man and has his limitations,
but they have witnessed his yer
riding of previously supposed impos-
sible industrial problems; for ir-
stance, Of his taking over a railroad
and running it at a tremendous profit
in a manner to make d plain liar
out Of every railroad man who said
that such could not be done without
billions in gratuities through the
government but in reality from the
people. Indeed there has been NO
more irritating piece of class legis-
lation in the last generation than
The Esch-Cummins law, which was
written on lines every syllable Of
which is a direct contradiction of the
railway truths proved by the bold en-
terprise of Ford.
In the face Of labor conditions that
the tribunes of big business have
claimed to be impossible. unjust anG
against the interests of the Ameri-
can people as 4 whole. Mr.. Ford has
run his private manufacturing bust
ness on a basis of paying a minimum
of Sc a day to employees, with fair
treatment to all. He may not be the
best man for president, but this one
fact alone has done more to bring
him into notice as white house tim
Der thai any other or all others com
bined. 1t has caused his figure to
stand out in opposition to all of the
numerous men to whom political
acumen is ascribed yet who have Wig
orously defended the systems by
which the man who works for days
pay has been asked to accept terms
still less advantageous to him than
he has been enjoying and have enact
ed laws to encourage capital.
The things which Ford has done
ADVICE TO The AGED