Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-10-19
MIR. FORD'S REMARKABLE
STATEMENT


STATEMENT
Perhaps the most impressive
statement so far made in this cam
paign by any business man is that
voluntarily contributed by Mr.. Ford
in favor of the election of Mr.. Hoo
yer, though Mr.. Ford is a Democrat
and was at one time a candidate for
the Senate on the Democratic ticket
in Michigan.
Having announced his support of
Mr.. Hoover and predicted his cleo
ton, Mr.. Ford gave an interview
last week at Detroit, in which he
expanded his views on the political
situation. Prohibition, he declared,
is providing the froth in the cam
paign. "The American people are
not going to chase around a barrel
of beer. Not only will the agitation
for revision of the 18th Amendment
bring ruin to those politicians who
are sponsoring it, but you will not
hear much of it after this election
is over After November it will be
settled finally, and settled right"
Mr.. Ford believes that it has been
the fashion to agitate the question
for a number of years, but that the
newspapers and magazines, and the
people as a whole, will grow tired
of the subject, that it will wear
itself out like stale joke" and that
in a few years it will be accepted
as a fact, be as well enforced as
other laws, and become a fixed pol
icy of the nation.
Whoever is elected, he points out,
must swear to defend and enforce
the Constitution, but no President,
whatever his views, can change it
even if he would Any change must
be proposed by Congress, which is
Overwhelmingly dry, and will re-
main so, and be ratified by three
fourths of the States, through their
legislatures, and a large majority
of these are dry and promise to re-
main so.
Mr. Ford takes the view that eco
nomic issues are the ones upon
which the election will turn, and in
his judgment Mr.. Hoover will sweep
the country because of his equip
ment for the task that lies ahead,
because of his sound views, and be- !
cause he proposes to carry out, and |
expand, the policies which have been
pursued under Mr.. Coolidge.
On this subject Mr.. Ford makes
this remarkable statement:
The revolution in industry
that has taken place in the past
few years is only the beginning.
Some people think that we are
now in the industrial age. No,
we are just on the threshold of
what 1 would call the indus
trial and comfortable age" and
Mr.. Hoover will be its first great
government leader. He is our
first example of the new type Of
statesman.
You know real craftsmanship
is the business of cleaning the
way for what God Almighty is
going to do. Something new is
here, and Mr. Hoover is part of
it. If you will look back in his
tory you'll find that each great
crisis in the world has produced
its own man to solve it. Some
times the man seemed slow in
coming, and the solution was de-
layed, but ultimately the man
always has appeared.
Mr.. Hoover, it seems to me,
is just the man we need today to
clear the way for what 1 be-
lieve will be the greatest indus
trial development the world has
ever known. The old science of
government as practiced by pol
iticians is a thing of the past
The new science of government
calls for engineers-social en-
gineers.
No far-sighted business man can
loubt this. Never before has it been
10 clear that America is on the
threshold of an expansion such as
10 country has ever seen, and that
prosperity will, if the nations bust
less is wisely managed, roll in like
tide. Improperly managed the gov
abandoning the policies
which have been tested and found
lot wanting, may plunge the coun-
ry into a state of industrial stag
alton and even of panic and retro :
ression.
Reading aloud the statement of
II. Hoover about the Punishment of
overly in America, Mr.. Ford said:
That is precisely what 1 am talk
lg about. That is what 1 mean
hen 1 say we are only at the be-
inning of the industrial and COM
)rtable age President Coolidge's
,b has been primarily one of stab
ization, and he was peculiarly fit
ID for it. He has cleaned up the
chris left by the war, he has
rought government expenses back