The Prescott daily news., 1919-07-28
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Bishop Williams Refuses to Answer Tribune Question-If FOrd's View Anarchistic Then
 l Am An Anarchist, He Says.


 Mt. Clemens, Mich, July 25.-The libel suit of Henry Ford against the Chicago Tribune swung back today to the original question, "Is Henry Ford an anarchist?"
 The Tribune, which has occupied five weeks in presenting it's defense and which has not yet concluded the effort, withdrew the field for the day to permit MT. Ford's attorneys to place Rt. Rev. Charles D. Williams, D. D., Episcopal bishop of Michigan, on the stand. Bishop Williams was called in rebuttal of the testimony of Prof. J. s. Reeves of the University of Michigan, who declared several weeks ago that many of Ford's ideas were fundamental principles of anarchy. The bishop gave it as his belief that the ideas of Henry Ford were not only not anarchistic but were Christian, very common and indeed almost com monplace. Many of Mr. Ford's obser- vations, the witness said, he himself had often made.
 Tribune counsel objected we are not trying the bishop for being an anarchist" said Elliot Stevenson. q am afraid my turn is coming" returned the bishop, because if this is anarchy I agree with it mostly" Ford counsel then asked the witness whether Henry Ford's belief that navies should be sunk, armies broken up and that all the paraphernalia of war should be destroyed or turned to honest toll was held by other than anarchists.
 q could quote half dozen passages from Scriptures that express almost that idea," returned the witness.
 Gan you do so offhand?" queried counsel.
 Slowly and impressively the bishop began to repeat from the Forty-sixth Psalm, Come behold the works of the Lord. What desolations He hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth. He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder, He burneth the chariot in the fire" Then came a quotation from the second chapter of Isaiah, And they shall beat their swords into blow shares and their spears into pruning forks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
 "State whether the sentiments ex- pressed in these articles are followed, adopted and preached by thousands of Christians within your knowledge" said the Ford counsel.
 "That is pretty large order," re- sponded the bishop, but I will say that in the main these views of MT. Ford are distinctly Christian, common ly preached in Christian pulpits, and that if they were lived up to it would be pretty good Christian world. Under cross-examination the bishop said he believed in patriotism. He de- clared also that, as MT. Ford had quoted, patriotism was sometimes "the last refuge of a scoundrel." T have often seen it so," he declared
 The witness said he did not con sider that Mexico was in a state of anarchy at the time of the border trouble. There were riots and dis orders there, he said, but there was also a form of government over the larger part of the country.
 "The recent riots in Washington did not indicate anarchy to you?" the bishop asked of his interrogator. Whereupon MT. Stevenson hed short furry of anger and then began hurling crossfire of questions at the witness. 'Do you believe in the doctrine of non- resistance?"
 "No, I don't"
 Tt is the belief of anarchists"
 "Yes, and the belief of Christians who are not anarchists, too."
 T asked you if it was not the opin- ion of anarchists? Will you be good enough to answer the question:"
 T will answer it according to my understanding. of the truth.