Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 153, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 19, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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"NO MATTER WHO DOES IT
WAR IS MURDER, I AS
MUCH AS ANYONE"
"FORD'S IDEAL"
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ADMITS HE IS AN IDEALIST
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CHICHESTER SPILL?
Mt,. Clemens, Mich , July 16.—1"War
is murder." Henry Ford, on Ills sec-
ond day on the witness stand, clung
to this declaration in the face of con-
tinued questioning on the part of op-
posing counsel in the Ford Tribune
$1,000,000 libel suit. Nothing could
shake him. He would
mise. He refused to equivocate. "War
is murder," even when Tribune coun-
sel asked the witness whether he
considered himself a murderer be-
cause he bad done so much towards
supplying the government with muni-
tions of war, Mr. Ford held to his
point.
"Yen," he said, "I was a murderer
just as much as anybody else. 1 was
one of the helpers of murder. When
the crisis came we all took a hand.
But it Is all the same, no matter who
does it. If war isn't murder, what
is it?"
'You said." stated Tribune counsel,
"that the advocates of preparedness
were trying to instill fear in the minds
of the people."
"Yes," answered the witness, "the
fellows who were going to make mon-
ey out of it, who wanted war for pro-
fit,, the advocates of overprepa red-
ness, I meant. That would be the
fellows at the bottom of it; the fel-
lows who had most Interest in it."
Again and again Tribune counsel ap-
proached the question of the witness
being "an Ignorant Idealist." as the
editorial which is the basis of the
suit charges For an hour the ex-
amining attorney nagged Mr Ford,
endeavoring to draw forth the in-
stances of his knowledge of literature
and history and government. Patient
and kindly as the witness was. the
pettlshness of the attacks stirred him
finally and he exclaimed: "Oh, I'll ad-
mit that I am an Ignorant Idealist if
you wish."
"What is an idealist?" asked the
Tribune attorney.
"One who tries to make people hap-
py and prosperous." responded Mr.
Ford.
"Is that your best definition?" ask
ed counsel with some scorn.
"Let it stand," responded Mr. Ford
patiently. "I believe I can do it
little."
You assume to educate the Ameri-
can people, Mr. Ford?"
"Assume to cause them to think."
"To instruct the American people
as to their duties in citizenship?"
"Instructing the people as to how
they are exploited."
"You were assuming to tell the
American people whether they were
prepared or not?"
"Prepared to be gouged again. Pre-
pared to be exploited, yes."
"You know there was anarchy down
in Mexico didn't you?"
"I knew there was trouble on the
border."
"And I'll say another thing," said
Mr. Ford suddenly, turning to the
court, "twice I was asked to contrib-
ute money to keep that trouble go-
ing on down on the border That's
what started me off against militar-
ism."
"Did you tell the president that?"
"Yes, and I think he told me of the
same thing happening elsewhere "
Reference was made to the Henry
A. Wise Wood interviewj with Mr.
Ford and Mr. Wood's appearance on
the stand. Mr. Ford said he came to
court especially to see what Mr. Wood
looked like.
"Well, how did he look?" queried
counsel.
"He didn't look like a free man,"
answered Mr. Ford.
"Looked like a slave to the finan-
cial Interests."
"Mr. Wood," said Mr. Ford, "had
entirely misrepresented the spirit and
form of this interview and especially
of his reference to stars and stripes
and of a possible flag of a league of
nations."
Another attempt to show that Mr.
Ford has not been in agreement with
Mr. Wilson was made and agatu mot
with failure.
"As a matter of fact," said Tribune
counsel, "you wi#e opposed to the
president on his submarine policy?"
"No sir, I was not,"
"You opposed the German use of
the submarine?"
"I certainly did, yes, sir."
Mr. Ford will continue on the stand
tomorrow.
Mount Clemens, Mich, July 18.—
Henry Ford entered the fifth day of
his experience on the witness stand
in his million dollar libel suit against
the Chicago Tribune apparently as
fresh as he was the day when he
not compro-1 first took his seat before the jury. But
once he lost his temper even under
questions which verged on inBult. He
has answered quietly, patiently and
kindly throughout the long ordeal and
his manner has made a deep impres-
sion on the audience which fills the
court room. •
Once today, while Tribune counsel
wa* reading an interview published in
a national magazine, in which Mr.
Ford's ideals were set forth at length
i i]■ audience broke into applause,
counsel had just read this statement.
"What I want to do is to make the
farmer as independent as I am. tnde
pendent of the banks, independent of
the trusts, independent of the rail-
roads." Then the crowded chamber
which has been following the reading
with evident sympathy, broke the
bonds of Judicial restraint.
Questioned again concerning the in
tervlew in which he is quoted as hav-
ing said that he would pull down the
stars and stripes from his factory af
ter the war and hoist a new banner of
a league of nations, Mr. Ford denied
emphatically that he had ever made
such a remark
Did you care enough about it to
deny it?" asked Tribune counsel
'Many, many, times,' 'answered Mr
Ford, "but a denial never catches up
with the story."
"I never told John Reed, who wrote
the article setting forth these state-
ments concerning the flag, that I was
having 3uch a banner designed in my
I never ordered one design
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"It was a terrible thing to say
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added the witness.
Considerable time was spent again
in reading from President Wilson's
speeches which the Tribune wishes to
place in evidence in an endeavor to
show trial Mr. Lord has uot been in
agreement with President Wilson's
policies.
The presence of Mr. Ford o" Gm
stand is attraction a crowd which
grows daily and which packs the court
room until not a foot of standing
room is left. The early hour at which
the trial opens dally 8:30 a. m. is no
drawback. The room is usually well
filled long before counsel make their
appearance. The trial, which dragged
interminably"" through several weeks
of testimony ranging all the way from
the Mexic.in border to the battlefields
of France, has taken on new life. The
high ideals of Henry Ford has fresh-
ened th-> case and given it a new in-
terest. Only when his ideals are at
tacked is there a trace of fire in bis
tOIl-M.
"War is murder."
"The rren who are at the bottom
of war a-e the men who want to nake
money out of it."
"There is a better way than war.
Teach people to th nk for-themse ves."
"Killing oeople murder, war kills
people. War is murder. Even I was
a helper of murder. We were all in
it."
"We must have the league of na
tions, either that «r we must prepare
to the h'lt and stand ready for another
war."
On such points as these no attack
of counsel can move him. He stands
by his statements, no matter in what
direction the examining attorney leads
he will not retract. He refuses to
compromise.
"I do not hate anybody." he was
quoted in the Joan Reed article as
saying, "but I believe the men who
want war and whD try to make war
are thinking in the wrong direction."
It Is possible to make everybody
prosperous and happy. He beli ve
that is the high ideal of his life. War
stands in the path of such an accom-
plishment. therefore he hates war
Opposing counsel are still attempt
ing to elaborate upon Mr. Ford's dec
laration that he doss not care much
about history. He admits that he
made that statement and stands fcy It
"I am interested in today." he says,
"and the possibilities which It holds
lor tomorrow."
"All the lessons of history did not
teach u-i how to avoid this last war.
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