The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-15

prison. You can't put truth in a eel
and turn a key on Il"
Waaina ) War.
lis mo test 0f humanity 60 sue
cessfully wage d war. the defendan
concluded. NO brains OF courage q
manhood are required % win war
she repeated
dildrskh On peniai.
Much more could Be said on thii
subject, but no less,s said Unitet
States District Attorney a.. A. HIl.
dreth in refuting the charges Of poll.
Teal activity in the indictment and
conviction Of Mrs. O'Hare. He deniet
that the pOstmigtress at Bowman OF
anyone connected with that position
or anyone seeking It had had any.
thing to- do with the investigation
which resulted in HRS. O'Hare's in.
| dietment. Some Of the best citizeni
in North Dakota, men whom he had
known and respected for years. found
this indictment. said the prosecutor.
Attorney Hildreth expressed M
desire to urge on the court any
severity OF Judgment, but stated thai
some OF the sentiments Mrs. O'Hars
had just uttered must convince every
unbiased nearer Of the truth Of whai
he had said before the jury.
Wads's Charge.
In all the years have been or
the bench" said Judge Wade, in the
address which preceded the passing
of sentence Il have made ii rule
to try to find out whom am sending
to prison. When this case closed
made up my mind / would find out
what were the activities OF the de-
PENDANT. She testified on the stand OF
her loyalty to and support Of the
President, and / hoped ] might find
she was such a woman, and a lighi
penalty might be imposed.
There IL only one way to win q
war-men, money and spirit. Because
OF those essentials, congress enacted
an espionage law to reach people
trying to put hatred and distrust In
the hearts and minds of our citizens
received information from Garrison
in presence of counsel for the de.
Tense that Mrs. O'Hare made this
statement there:
Mothers who send their sons int
this war to become soldiers are nc
better than breeding animals. This
war is waged on behalf Of the CAPT
talists. If we had loaned our money
~ we De
now with Germany against the al
lies. The way to stop this war is K
strike
Dangerous Writer.
Il wired to the postohice depart
ment at Washington, which advised
me that The Social Revolution, which
has Mrs. O'Hare on it's editoria
staff, had been barred from the mail.
for gross violations. They told me;
The party seems to be an extrem,
of that type Of effort TO handicap the
government in every way possible
AT some period during June OF
July, the government barred The
Social Revolution from the malls.
have not been able to obtain copie:
for June and July. have before mI
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 al
eager for bullets, while "fool work
ingmen stop the bullets" Debs re-
marked: When you see the bankers
on the firing line g viii be time FOL
you TO be seized with a patriotic
itch to be shot Into a crazy quilt"
The Gospel of Hate,
Then" said Judge Wade, comes
the statement winch forms the roun-
cation or TINS whole gospel Of hate;
Inar tins Is a war OF the capitalists;
that the average man has no chance;
that zoo or SUI nhlllionaires or, biz.
iIonaires dominate the souls AND
consciousness or 99,UUO,00V Amerl-
cans"
ne quoted from an article writer
hzF Nwe a. reNA
Americas declaration OF war Oh
America into this war"
I'VE socIaIisrs wrote Mrs. o'Hare
have bitterly opposed our countryS
beng dragged lnto thus war. W.
oppose 1t NOW. We viii Oppose the
enacIment OF conscription law
and we win oppose consumption IN
mass force if need be-
This SAID Judge Wade, lis the
gospel she thinks she can help the
nation with.'
Heart With Germany.
n I'VE have placed her ia a class
that we feel is heart and soul with
Germany. Nothing would please us
more than to hear she had received
lite sentence" read Judge Wade
from a report furnished him by the
department Of justice at st. Louis.
Mrs. O'Hare was chairman of the
committee which brought in the
resolutions OF the extreme wing in
opposition to the government last
summer. This was after war had
been declared. Mrs. OHare openly
detied the government and the civil
authorities. She said the Socialists
would not be molested, no matter
what they said or did, FOR ST Louis
was against the war. and the au-
thorities were afraid to interfere.
Fine stun for our boys and girls
at this time!'
Purest sedition.
The court read from Mrs. O'Hare's
resolutions in opposition to war in
troduced at this time, calling on the
workers to refuse their support to
the government In the war; to
stand out against the false princi-
pies OF national patriotism and for
international solidarity" repeating
that this is a war OF the capitalists"
that "the forces Of capitalism which
led to war in Europe are even more
hideously manifested by capitalism
forcing our entrance into war"
That" said Judge Wade, els
splendid support for the government
seed to plant in the minds
and the hearts Of the people!"
Defended Submarines.
Mrs. O'Hare defended submarine
as directed only against the
capitalists, and declared that America
was making war on the common peo-
pie Of Germany.
But a few days before said Judge
Wade. ''the President OF the United
States In the most dramatic hour the
nation had ever known had said to
the world: This is not a war against
the German people, and before tile
sound OF his voice had died away,
these people, headed BY Mrs. OHaFe,
gave him the lie.
They brand the declaration OF war
as 3 crime against the people Of the