Persuasive Speech Of 1908

Persuasive Speech—1908
Jeremy Colin Newell
Hanover College
Hanover, Indiana

Henry Ford has released his invention to the public.   It is a horseless carriage that he calls the automobile.   He has told us that this contraption will eventually be made available to the entire world.   This is going to have a radical change on our society, as we know it.
Each and every person out there should have an automobile.   Every person"s daily chore time would be cut in half.   Daily trips to town would be made in only a few short hours.   Supplies from the cities would come twice as fast to the smaller towns.   Recreation will soar to new levels because every person will be able to travel wherever he pleases whenever he pleases.   Opportunities shall rise to new levels in the job market.   One could get a job TWENTY miles from where he lived and not have to move to an urban area!   A person, like you, could travel the country by himself or with his spouse, stopping, and going as they pleased unlike the bothersome, untimely train schedule.   Every person"s dreams of traveling to new lands without the hassle of planning around a train schedule will come true.
Do you know what the best part of all of this is going to be?   Ford has told us that the automobile will be very fair-priced so that every person will be able to afford one of these luxurious, technological advances; not just the wealthier part of society will be affected.   Every person will be transformed.   Families will be able to travel in a family car and they will be financially able to purchase one of the greatest fabrications of all time.   The middle class man will be able to enjoy one of life"s luxuries that only the rich in the past have been able to relish in.   I am telling you, first hand, that all of us are going to be affected and our lives are going to change.   Don"t you think this contraption is exciting for our future?
Each automobile comes in a most desirable style.   The sleek black body comes with every...