Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-22
F0EI, ~ 7rHICT
Of WORST TYPE,
SAYS ATTORNEY
IN LIBEL SUIT
Elliott G, Stevenson Declares
That Murders and 0utrageS
InStigated by Men EnCOur-
age Bomb ThroWerS,
SPREAD OF PROPAGANDA
AGAINST PATRIOTISM
Anti-War Propaganda Claimed
Responsible for San Francis
co Bomb Outrage for Which
Mooney Was Convicted,
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Mount Clemens, Mich, May 2i.--A
vehement denuuciation, IN which
Henry Ford was characterized not
only as an anarchist but a dangerous
one, startled spectators in Judge Tuck
er's court here today. The assertion
came from Elliott G. Stevenson of De-
troit, one of counsel for the Chicago
Tribune which is being sued for one
million dollars damages by Mr., Ford
on charge Of libel. The pivot of the
alleged libel published June 23, 1915,
was the heading Of an editorial read
ing:
Ford is an anarchist"
In his comment, incident to debate
on a brief in which the plaintiff seeks
to limit the evidence Mr.. Stevenson
alluded to the assassination of Pres
ident Mckinley, the bomb outrage
during the preparedness parade at
san Francisco, the war time offenses
of members of the industrial workers
of the world and devoted some time to
the "copperheads" of the civil war He
quoted President Lincoln as writing in
reference to the banishment into the
confederate lines of Clement l.. VAL
landingham, "copperhead' leader Of
Ohio. as follows;
Must | shoot tho simple minded
soldier who deserts, while | must not
touch hair OF the head of the willy
agitator who incites him to desert?"
Eari More Culpahlc.
so we say to Henry Ford. the law
vor declared, you are more respon-
sih'a for the outrages that have been
committed during the war than any of
the men who used direct action, be-
cause you, great leader and human
itarian encouraged them and they
believed that you must be right
Earlier in the session Attorney Al
fred LuckinE, representing Mr.. Ford,
quoted much law in arguing that mili-
tary preparedness had nothing to do
with the present case and that there
were many court decisions which
would confinc the present issue to con-
siderng only whether the headline
"Ford Is An Anarchist" was a libel
II was immatcrial, he said, what edi-
torial policy the Tribune had pursued
before. The Tribune. Mr.. Lucking ad-
mltted, had the right to show what its
motives were in publishing the editor
ia' and might introduce the body of
the editorial in that connection, but
he said it was far without the issue
To introduce witnesses to give testi-
mony on Mexican affairs when there
was nothing to show that their stories
were known to the editorial writer
when he wrote the alleged libelous
editorial
Most Dangerous Anarchist.
Mr., Stevenson, replying to this, said;
at is our purpose to endeaVor to
show that Henry Ford was just the
kind of a man we characterized him
as being, an anarchist We are talk
Ing about regular dyed-in-t -the-wool
anarchists, of the kind the article in
dicates Henry Ford was the most
dangerous kind of an anarchist that
can be thought of a man who, by in
sidious propaganda undermines the
confidence Of the people"
Mr. Stevenson pointed to the assas
sin of President Mckinley as one who
wished to destroy the power of the
government by violence.
what was 1t prompted him n COM
NIT the murdor?' asked the lawyer
"The insdious propaganda that had
been spread broadcast picturing Me
t[iulcy as the puppct of the trusts,
What prompted the San Francisco
bomb outrage--it was an attempt to
intimidate the men who were working
to prepare this country to defend it
self and discharge its duties 1t was
the propaganda, which said that We
had no right in the war and that any
one who engaged in it was not pa (
triot but tool of Wall Street and
munition makers. They heard Henry
Ford and others say: There is no
danger of an attack from an enemy,
there is no enemy in sight except the
profiteers who want to have this
country involved in war"
Mr.. Stevenson will finish tomorrow.
After he has been answered by cOun-
sci for Mr.. Ford. taking of testimony
will start.