The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-08-23
HENRY FORD
BACKS HOOVER
Auto Manufacturer Tells Why He
Is Heart and Soul With
Candidate.
SAYS FARMERS NEED HIM
Quality of Hoover's Ability Is Fact
Already Demonstrated by
His Record.
SAYS FARMERS NEED HIM
BY HENRY FORD

In tnterUle1D actin samuel CT0tCtHeT OF
the Saturday EUeiti1t9 Post.
r AM for Hoover for President be-
cause he has shown that he can
l. size up any job, pick the right man
and direct it through to success.
Through fourteen years-ever since
Belgium-he has been handling some
Of the biggest jobs in the world. He
has made a success of every one of
them. He has shown that he is not
afraid of size.
The greatest job that the world has
ever known is now before this coun-
try. 1t is so big that none of the old
line politicians even knows that 1t
exists. We have developed this coun-
try just enough during the past six
or seven years to know that much
which was thought to be impossible
can be made possible under the right
leadership.
The task is to make such use of
the experience we have gained that
we can build rightly for the future.
Otherwise we are going to lose all
that we have gained.
We have the men, We have the
money and we can make the tools
for the job. But all these will be
useless without leadership. That
leadership, because the thing is ma
tional, must be in the President.
Hoover Has Proved Leadership
The quality of Hoovers leadership
requires no experimenting. 1t is a
demonstrated fact.
But of what value is experience in
the management of public affairs?
What difference does it make who is
President?
We all have our personal prefer
ences, but mere preference is not
important If it be true, as is said,
that no real issues are before the
country, then any man of reasonable
ability will make an acceptable Presi-
dent.
1t is quite true that we have no
real political issues. But we have an
economic problem which looms great
er than any of the old issues. 1t is
not in politics. 1t cannot be describ-
No one is mulch concerned now with
liberty and independence as tied up
with the. right to vote. We have all
the rights our forefathers struggled
for. We are concerned with new and
different rights and possibilities.
The great issue is to develop this
country to a point where every man
NOT
to work and to play
We have proved that wages can be
made high. We have now to prove
that they can be continuously paid
that there will be no periods of IN
employment over which the worker
cannot finance himself.
No man is wise enough to say how
the future should be planned. But
we have right at hand many enor-
nous developments which will keep
all of us busy.
Transportation Brings Prosperity
This country could not have de-
veloped without transportation. That
gave us national markets. These are
mass markets, and thus we have been
able to use better methods of manu-
featuring and get higher wages and
lower prices. The first rapid trans
portation came through the railroads.
Then came the automobile. The mo-
tor vehicles were at first thought to
be competitors of the railroads, but
now we know that they fit in to-
gether.
Business breeds business, and now
we have not enough transportation.
We must use the great waterways
that have been put here for US to use
both for transport and for power
Damming them for power improves
them for transportation. Besides, the
accumulation of these large bodies Of
water assists the rainfall We have
the Great Lakes and the Mississippi
partly in use, but they are doing only
a fraction of what they can be made
to do. And many other projects only
await further planning and coordina
ton. For we know that we are in
need of all kinds of transport-by air,
by land and by water-and that each
mas ltS place ana lnaL eaCn Will make
business for the others. This coun-
try needs to have it's industry more
spread out. Electricity and transport
will do this.
This program will circulate billions
of dollars. Don't say it will cost bill
lions of dollars; say it will circulate
4, billions of dollars. That is the true
way of saying it.
We have the money and will have
much more, for every dollar thus
spent will produce several dollars.
And undertaking this work will mean
that for many years-perhaps forever
we shall not have to bother about
unemployment anywhere. Both the
farm and the factory will share in
every dollar that is paid out to the
men actually on the work.
1t does not matter to me who does
the work or who owns this work
when done II is use not ownership