The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-17
HENRY FORD TRAPPED
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! an invasion that never occurred aud
never will occur and yet the very
war EXPERTS who are Responsible for
| that burlcnSOmC army and navy ad-
mt that our army and navcy never
! would have been ahlc 10 meet with
any mop" u success those OF other
! So.Callcd powers
Throughout the session tho dir was
thick with the object "uS Of tn" Ford
! lawyers. Alfred l.uckInE and Alfred 6.
/ Murphy. Attorney Stevenson stated
! that BY actual couu; there were l?j OBJ
! jccilun# raised on behalf "f the plain.
i licr yesterday and H. SAID that h
I thought that record would be broken
| today.
Mr.. Stevenson stated that he regarded
Mr.. Ford Us thu most important witness
! of the case. tcstifyInS at the I"ost I'M
pOriant stag" OF lhr proceedings Tn
/ Tribune characterized hm as An anarch-
! list, the attorney argued. and added:
| Il conceive II To tc my RIGHT and my
! duty 10 cxam.n" Mr.. Ford thoroughly on
this subject - that thu jury may unncr-
stand just what Mr.. FurdS views were
! in order to determine whether he Wa
what we called hun or not
In the course OF it's ALLEGED libclods
editorial. he added. "Ford Is an anarch-
! list" publishcd June %. l?lG the manu-
| faCturrr was also referred 10 as al,
! ignorant idcali%t." This directed ono
phase OF the examination, Mr.. Stevenson
! replying to objections. arguing that as
/, Mr.. Ford set himself up as an educator
! he had a right To prove that Mr.. Ford
was Ignorant" The lawy-r asked the
witness for definitions Of anarChlS;
! idcalist. "ballyhoo" and som" historical
questions, all in connection with tht
; ptlaviCH. propaganda
In the cuurS" Of his answers. while
the lawyers were arguing CNrlt"dly. Nj.
Ford INTERCEPTED:
! If Il Will d" any good, III admit that
) | am an ignorant Id"aiI%t
IF You admit 1t tiat Will for"cl"s"
| tho question:" said Mr.. Stevenson.
81 VIII admit il. just to C;o$" il"
Not jus, to clos" 1t; II YOU Will ac-
! nit II aa n fact. We Will stop tn" m
J. ulry." pursued MIR. Stevenson. eagerly.
amid SURPRISED "hjcrti"ns from Mr..
| Lurking and Mr. Murphy.
Il don't know whether u is fact or
not: that Is Tor tho jury to decide. '
said Mr.. Ford.
Later in Tho examination when tho
question WAS repeated MIR. Ford shock
, his head slowly and declared that h"
did not consider hms"lf an ignorant
idcaLst.
This was not the only volunteered tcs-
! ,iuuny with which the manufacturer
! surprised his COUNSEL The question ~
rr,.var, du">s waa under discussion nm
/ Mr.. Stevenson wa' pursuing Mr.. Ford
! chnrarI CREATION "f preparedness adN"-
Gates as uurd"r"rS.
Il advocated preparedness after VIC
! get into tn" war" SAID Mr.. Ford.
"l;ut ! was speaking Of 1918 and
1916" explained tho lawyer. The wit
ness. in an apparent abstraction ignored
(! tn. dates and. following Ais own train
{ Of thought added:
! Il was a murderer just rs well IA
anybody clS'.'
you were murderer" Easpcd Mr..
, Stevenson.
I Il was a party 10 il: on" Of the help
crs." sad the witness calmly.
! "Do you mean that in 1917 you were
3 the same Kind Of murderer that ad-
! yocatcs Of preparedness were IN 1915
and 1916"
t no; We were in tho war In 1917; in
, 1916 We wCrc not.
| Further. the witness. evidently with
. Arnold Bennett in mind. hazardCd tho
. opinion that the Revolutionary traitor.
Benedict Arnold. was writer He had
I,ry,'irn what year the United States
ORGANIZED as n nation and asked whaI
l,hc country was before that event said
! that he guessed that II was land. He
! defined treason as anything against the
| government" and said that traitor, in
! his opinion. was anyone who advocated
ovcr-prcparedness or war for aggression.