The Dickinson press., 1917-12-22
MRS. O'HARE SENTENCED
BY JUDGE WADE TO FIVE
YEARS IN PENITENTIARY

Declaring there always is a place
for real reformers, but no room on
American soil for reformers of the
Kate Richards O'Hare type in times
of peace and that less than ever Is
there space for them in q time of
national stress, Judge Wade, of Iowa,
after excoriating the defendant and
her treason to the United States Gov
eminent in United States court Fri
day afternoon decreed that she nav
the costs of her trial on charge Of
sedition and that she spend the next
five years in the United States prison
at Jefferson City, Mo.
Mrs. O'Hare, who had spoken more
than an hour in her own behalf pre-
cedlng her sentence, received it's an
nouncement without a word.
The defendant declared hers was not
q plea for mercy but a warning. She
defied the court and the Government
OF the United States; branded the in
dictment, the trial and the verdict as
"grotesque," and intimated that a
revolution among the workers of the
country would result from her sent
ence.
WITS. Mares DefenSe
g! have a hundred thousand friends
in America with whom I have worked
side by side; they have looked into
my. face and have heard my voice.
Not ten thousand judges, not ten
thousand juries could convince these
people that l am a criminal. Think,
in this time of. stress, before you do
anything that may stir UP class hatred
and prejudice when u hope is a unl.-
ed nation"
Judge Wade's reply was:
This is a Government of majorities
The conceited minority must give way
to the will Of the majority or be
crushed by the majestic power which
is America. They must yield that pa
triotism which means obedience to the
established law, which is the people,
or they must be crushed as traitors
Wade's Charge
I'm all the years I have been on
the BENCH" said Judge Wade, in the
address which preceded the passing
of sentence, 81 have made it a rule to
try to find out who I am sending II
prison. When this case closed I made
up my mind I would find out what
were the activities of the defendant.
She testified on the stand of her 10y
atty to and support of the president,
and I hoped I might find she was such
a woman, and a light penalty might
be imposed
"There is only one way to win a
war-men, money and spirit. Because
of those essentials, congress enacted
an espionage law to reach people try
ing to put hatred and distrust in the
hearts and minds of u citizens. I
received information from Garrison, in
presence of counsel for the defense
that Mrs. O'Hare made this statement
there:
"'Mothers who send their sons into
this war to become soldiers are 10
better than breeding animals. This
was is waged on behalf of the capital
lists. If we had loaned our money 20
Germany, we would be fighting now
with Germany against the allies. The
way to stop this war is to strike.'
! Dangerous Writer
II wired to the post office depart
ment at Washington, which advised
me that the Social Revolution, which
has Mrs. O'Hare on it's editorial staff,
had been barred from the mails for
gross violations. They told me: The
tparty seems to be an extreme of that
type of effort to handicap the Govern
ment in every way possible
AT some period during June or
July, the Government barred the So
cial Revolution from the mails. I have
not been able to obtain copies for
June and July. I have before me one
of April"
He read from this organ of the
socialists in whose editorship Mrs.
O'Hare is prominent, an editorial by
Debs referring to the bankers as eager
for bullets, while "fool workingmen
stop the bullets" Debs remarked:
"When you see the bankers on the fir.
ing line it will be time for YOU to be
seized with a patriotic itch to be shot
into a crazy quilt"
The Gospel of Hate
"Then," said Judge Wade, "comea
the statement which forms the foun-
dation of this whole gospel of hate:
That this is a war of the capitalists;
that the average man has no chance
that 200 or 300 millionaires or billion
laires dominate the souls and con-
| sciouness of so, OOO, 900 Americans"
He quoted from an article written
Wy A4NAS Ill VAdyS IO1lOW1Il},
Americas declaration of wal on Ger
many, on Capitalism forcing America
into this war;"
"We socialists" wrote Mrs. O'Hare,
"have bitterly opposed our country's
being dragged into this war. We op-
pose it now. We will oppose the en-
actment of a CONSUMPTION law, and we
will oppose conscription in mass force
if need be-"
"This," said Judge Wade, "is the
gospel she thinks she can help the ma
ton with"
Heart With Germany
"'We. have placed her in a class
that we feel is heart and soul with
Germany. Nothing would please Us
more than to hear She had received a
life sentence" read Judge Wade
from a. report furnished him by the
department Of justice at St. Louis.
l Mrs. O'Hare was chairman of the