Open letter to Henry Ford.
Detroit, Hotel Statler, 2. August. 1916.
Dear Mr. Ford,
I came from Europe [as] I announced in two wireless messages to make a report to you.
I did not come to make new suggestions.
I did not come to ask anything.
I did not come to discuss the quarrels of your representatives.
But I came to tell you something that will make you glad and proud, something that repays you for much of the trouble that has accompanied your efforts.
People in [New York] and here say that you are not your own master. I do not believe that, that just as I cannot believe that you, Mr. Ford, who pick up tramps and treat them gently can be so rude as a message [delivered] Monday by Mr. [Delavigne] in your name makes you appear.
It has been suggested to me to try to see you by appointments made in a roundabout way. I thought that too undignified, and [preferred] to address my request for an interview personally to you. I sent two letters to both your home and your office.
The barrier around you being more impregnable than that around kings, kaisers, presidents or other financial magnates I [illegible] am making this request for an [illegible] interview through this paper, in the hope that it will reach you and secure me an answer.
Sincerely yours
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