Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-05

him to examine the proposition response he made the
first and only businesske offer the Government
ceved an offer backed by millions of his own funds
offer involving the completion of the great works to high
productive capacity offer involving limited income
fixed by law and last of ALL offer involving the return
of entire developed property to the at the
expiration of the contract PERIOD at any time might
be needed for purposes.
What this meant although it cannot all be stated in
the cold language of contracts is that demonstration
was to of how cheapy power could be produced
for empoyment and productive purposes The radio de-
veloped by Ford Motor Company workman per
horsepower job for every unit of power developed Ii
million horsepower is developed at the Shoals it means
million Jobs 1t meant also the liberation of the farmer
the present heavy burdens of the fertilizer trust
More than that it meant great source of munitions
military resource American controlled and OF the flfsJ I'M
pOrtance.
This is the proposition which the concentrated forces
of the exploiting interests opposing This is the offer
which many newspapers and magazines are now attack
ing after having endorsed it. The late on
the newspapers apparently it was applied in other quar-
tiers first but within three months there have been
cered and wholesale assertions OF their former position
by the press.
Why? Is there a better or more promising offer in
SIGHT? No. With the Ford offer refused there will
be any offer heard Of Why then? Is it personal
opposition to Mr. Henry Ford AS that strangely,
enough the real opposition against Mr. person
ally 1t is against his system OF service in business Ii
he were less likely to make Muscle Shoals demonstrate
of ho cheapy the necessares of life could be made there
would be less opposition to his offer The great fear is
that he will actually accomplish what his offer proposes
If Henry Ford had agreed to do business along the
old lines charging the powerusers all the traffic would
BEAR charging farmers all they could pay, squeezing out
every personal prOflCS CnaC cOuQ be naulI ne
agreed to business along the lines his opponents
follow boosting prices and profits Muscle Shoals would
been HANDED to him long with the blessing OF
every exploer in the land But the power trust knew
that would demonstrate that costs little to pro-
duce and less The fertilizer trust knew that
he would demonstrate what wholesale system OF rob-
berry has been practced against the American farmer In
fact system of uong business would be the udg
ment Day for the Old System, and the Old System has
gathered itself in brstlng alliance to it's life
This is the meaning OF the opposition. Two opposed
systems colliding head on.
What temporarily becomes of Muscle Shoals may be
matter But the Ford offer has already done
TINS nation 1t has given millions of dollars of val
lie to property that the interests said wasn't worth
Nickel 1t has given the System of Sefshness in business
death warning. That system knows it too No other
meaning be attached to this unparalleled concentra
lon of hostility to the only offer which the government
pendent.