The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-23
'1T10R'S HEAVY FINE
That Will Be Of Interest
Ruling to Writers.
.,.rscH,s THEORIES FALSE

,hor Of the -, .ud Tn Paw N
''''' .a 70 one Day in jail ana Co. 20 80, -.
' s'". Of si,soo-Court Holds '. ,,,. T,so.
hn. .r I. Not bad Man But nus ".o
Author .,,sd In the Book Are Fai'e'
rberein He Erred
~ Feb. 2s.-Judge william
An" or Of the United States circuit
Il seam ,ns the eastern district OF WIS
court II, oae a ruling upon authorship
' 0as will probably interest writer's IN
ina' .rts of the country, ana a''raos
al p ".necial attention OF authors u
the esp, s,ool works. The judge SEN
pnilOSVTy, Ill Ruedebusch, the author OF
tenceu nd the New Ideal" when
the w attorney Phillips held was SO
plS'f'.' that it could not be sent
implOps The mails without violation
thrOue" ostal laws, and in pronouncing
Of INC mon Ruedebusch for this OF
s s.nse the judge mainta ,n'e,.n hook
ien'' writer in publishing d oooN
anu not he taken in consideration, 'ne
nesu question to consider peihs IT'S ~,
only IN the reader and society Inc
zee. W W was one day imprisonment anu
sentence was 0,-0
. fine of $1,000 80
H~r ,arativeiy Unknown Author.
p,,odehusch lives at Mayviile'
MI "a &c comparatively unknown,
WIS., o." socision he was the cause OIL
am Is of far more Importance 'nar'
~. hook. which his attorneys w
I I1 and c. w. Felker' saio was
philosophical treatise.
Wis case" said the judge, nav
49,, oaTed Ruedebusch to the s,aho
ms ,urv has indicted you OF the crime
ne IN the indictment. and theli
s .no,son and Judgment was undoupteu
oe'la rs, OF the question Of the falsitS
ne doctrines contained In the pook
.s,s court has nothing TO 90. ina
ui's ors false from top to bottom seems
NV ~ ouite apparent to any man. iron
". hos appeared in this case, an
N '.p.sad however. that you are not
had man in the sense IN Which !. wour
howe 10 be said, II the sentiments coi,
.s,ned in that book were to be at,ri
snted 10 YOU, as you understand TN
views
Led into Theorizing.
.n,ou am inclined to think 20
,ora become imbued with notions an
.haor,es which have led you into
theorizing of yourself, without reaiizin
What II would come to, and that Tn
orlv nossible result of your doctrine
moy,d he the absolute destruction
al home life. and all the social reia
lions and everything that we hold oeai
everything that is contained In the CIV
nization of the world; would carry
hack beyond any matters entertaine
in the dark ages.
"Au that. however, would not lie
ground for a sentence In this case; %,
!, does lie in this. what 1 have no dou
you ala not realize, and that is that Il
reading of such sentiments, in the lal
uage in which they are clothed
absolutely sure to be demoralizing al
a dangerous to the mind of the youn
The license suggested is the danger
the book.
Intentions of Author.
But as you are not one or, whom
would seem to me 1t would be teit
said that there was any intention
your part to carry out such effects, I
court is justified in taking that III
consideration, and that there should n
be imposed upon you that severe tel
Of Imprisonment which would be II
posed IL felt that 1t was an INTENT
on your part to do the harm that "
necessarily be done by the dissemin
ton of the sentiments contained In q
book
THE sentence of the court theref'
is that you be imprisoned in the cour
Jail Of Milwaukee county for one al
and pay fine of $1,000, and that y
remain imprisoned until the hne
paid"
Mr.. Ruedebusch was visibly affec'
by the suspense while the judge v
speaking, and the sentence, when 1t
u finally pronounced