The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15
EoRD COUNSEL TELLS JURY
 | THEY SIT IN MOST SER- IOUS CASE
RGUMENTS ARE COMPLETED
|.,,rseI Complete Final Remarks and |court AdjournIng For a Day While Judge Prepares His List Of
 Instructions.


 onths from the day that the Fird- |r,bune $1,O00,000 libel case opened
 this city the long addresses of {ounsel closed. The final word was d to the jury for and against Henry ord and Court adjourned for a day give Judge Tucker an opportunity arrange his charge.
 Elliott G. Stevenson. chief counsel the Chicago Tribune opened the sh days session with the closing af- pment for the defendant. He laid Fhcipal stress on the ignorance" of snry Ford. He proclaimed that MT. prd vas so ignorant that he did not bov he was an anarchist and that idealism was . part of this ignor- be-
 From this point the attorney branch out and attacked Ford witnesses Id their recital of the Ford was prk, belittled the tremendous labors the Ford organization in behalf of government and called them . boice between doing war work and 5ing nothing.
 Finally MT. Ford's philanthropic brk was discussed. Andrew Carne- died yesterday, showed the lawyer. De papers say he gave away $35O.- o,00O compared with that record bnry Ford is pjker.
 During the course ce his remarks Stevenson complained to the jury ht when Judge Murphy speaks for 5. Ford his remarks are called elo- |ence but that when he himself leaks his efforts are dubbed vehem- Ice. The final argument for MT. trd was made by Alfred Lucking. hior counsel for the paintiff.
 Every seat in the courtroom was pwded and every foot of standing hce occupied when MT. Lucking be to address the jury. "The whole prld in the next war will be swept the fire of universal destruction Jess the last war shall have shown e value of a high court of the na- ns," said Attorney Lucking in ex- Hing the court and jury system for settlement of private disputes as openedhis remarks. fNot in your time or mine has . fy of citizens been charged with so Fious a duty as devolves upon you. le of the questions growing out of
 case is the Tribune's conception the freedom of the press. *We claim that 1t is not the freedom the press that is on trial here but
 unbridled license of the press. IS any newspaper the right irespon- Ny and relentlessly to attack the hracter of a private citizen? The icago Tribune not only called Henry rd an anarchist and then wrote an torial in an attempt to prove what said but it placed it's editor on the md to say that he meant what he 3ote, that Henry Ford is an anar- list.
 \ wish it were possible for this jury go under Henry Ford's personal pdance through Henry Ford's vast ferprises and listen to him as he ex- #lnds their mysteries-ignorance- 2e day down in Washington he heard
 naval experts of America and pat Britain lamenting the impossi- nty of getting boats to carry the lcate detActors by which enemy pmarines could be located and des- wed. Henry Ford listened to them half an hour and right there and Fn a decision arose in his mind He
 a certain swamp turned into a p yard. He saw an entirely new thod of making ships. He saw record of production. All this he
 in every detail as if it were in ual operation and in an incredibly Prt time that shipbuilding plant was work.
 This ignorant man dreamed it. Te his traducers ever dreamed so atly? Do any of us know as much that ignorant man?
 The Chicago Tribune looks over nry Ford's great industries, 1t looks
 his constantly increasing wage le; it looks into his wonderful K for the education of men who missed their chance; it looks 1n- the trade school where boys are cated an dtrained who would other go to the human scrap heap; IL s into all his great services to hu- nity and then it asks you to stop this; it asks you to brand him so
 he will not be able to hold up his q in his own community. Are you ng to say that this man Is unit to