Arizona republican., 1919-05-22
FORD. IS WORSE
 THAN ANARCHIST
 TRIBUNE ARGUES
Attorney Says He is More
 Responsible for 0utrages Than Those Guilty of Di-
 rect Action-Purposes to Show him all they charged

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, May q. A vehement denunciaton, in which Henry Ford was characterized not only as an anarchist, but dangerous one, startled spectators in Judge Fuckers court here today. The asser- | ton came from Elliott c. Stevenson of Detroit, one of counsel for the Chi cago Tribune, which is being sued for ouemill ion damages by MT. Ford on a charge of libel. The pivot of the alleged libel published June 23, 1916 was the heading of an editorial reading;
 Ford is an anarchist
 In his comment, incident to debate on a brief in which the plaintiff seeks 10 limit the evidence, Mr. Stevenson alluded to the assaEi Einauon of Presi- dent Mckinley, thebomb outrage dur ing the preparedness parade at San Francisco, the war time Offenses of members of the Industrial Workers of the World and devoted some to the cOpperheads of the civil war He quoted President Lincoln as writing i'll reference to the banishment into the Confederate lines of Clement L. Val andingham, @ "copprhead" leader of Ohio,as follows:
 Ford More Responsible
 Must l shoot the simple minded sol dier who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the head of the willy agitator who incites him to desert?"
 50 we say to Henry Ford" the lawyer declared. you are more respon- sible for the outrages that have been committed during the war than any of the men who used direct action, be- cause you, a great leader and humani- tartan, encouraged them and they be- lieved that you must be right
 Earlier Il ithe session, Attorney AlS fred Lucking, representing Mir. 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 confine the present issue to considering only whether the headline Ford is an anarchist" was a libel It was immaterial, he said, what editorial policy the Tribune had pursued before. The Tribune, MT. Lucking sadi, had theright to show what it's motives were in publishing the editorial, and might introduce the body of the editorial in thatconnection, but he said it was far without the issue to introduce wit nesses to give testimony on Mexican affairs, where there was nothing to show that their stories were known to the editorial writer when he wrote the alleged libelous editorial.
 MT. Stevenson, replying to this, said:
 Ford is an Anarchist
 Tt 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 talking about regular dyed d-in-the-wil anar- chists, of the kind the article indicates. Henry Ford was the most dangerous kind of an anarchist that can be thought of a man who, by insidious propaganda, undermines the confidence of the people"
 MT Stevenson pointed to the assassin of President Mckinley as one who wished to destroy the power of the government by violence.
 What was it prompted him to com init the murder?'' asked the lawyer.
 The insidious propaganda that has been spread broadcast, picturing Me Kinley as the puppet of the trusts. What prompted the San Francisco bomb outrage-it was an attempt to lnt1midate the men who were working to prepare this country to defend itself and discharge it's duties. It was the propaganda which said that we had no right in the war, and that any one who engaged in it was not a patriot but q tool of Wall street, and muni- ton 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 10 have this country involved iu war '
 MT. Stevenson will finish tomorrow After he has been answered by counsel for MT. Ford, testimony will begin.