The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-15
Mrs. O'Hare Defies Court
Before Sentence Is Pro-
nounced by Judge.
TRIED TO CREATE
CLASS PREJUDICE
Used Many Vile Epithets in
Effort to Defeat Aim Of
Registration.

Bismarck. \. -. Dec. li.A sentence
Of five years ii the peuitentiary at
jefferson city. Mo, was imposed to-
dan by Judge Martin j. Made Of Des
Moines. ON Mrs. Kate Richards o.llare.
convicted Of making uuerances In
speech at Bowman, y. D.. last summer
tending 10 discourage obedience 70 the
military registration.
The sentence followed Il long speech
by Mrs. O'Hare. In which she rciter-
ated statements declaring her opposi-
tiou to war and dciied Federal Judge
Wade to do his worst.
Judge Wade. before pronouncing
sentence, read reports from the postof-
flee department at Washington telling
Of the necessity for exclusion from
mails for gross violations Of the Social
Revolution. which Mrs. OHare former
IL edited, the postoffice department
stating il considered Mrs. o'llare an
extremist OF the wing of the Socialist
party that Is doing everything 1t can
tn handicap the government. Tho
Judge produced Il letter from the de-
partment of justice at st. Louis, Mo,
giving 4 record of the Socialist con-
Ncution held there last summer. when
Mrs. . Hare was chairman of the cont
mittee which introduced resolution So
radical That ioseph Spargo and other
temperate Socialists left the party.
These resolutions urged congressman
ip vote against all war appropriations;
urged lahoring CLASSES To used massed
resistance To conseriptton. declared
Amorlea's entrances into the war the
most dishonerahle act in the nations
history; insisted the people had not
been consulted gaN. the he To Presi-
dent Wilson's recent declaration 10 the
world that this WAS not a war on the
German people: declared national pa
tliotism "A sham and that international
solidarity VAS the only salvation of the
workers and insisted that Americas y
war was as purely capitalistic ns that
Of amy nation in Europe.
Dangerous Enemy"
We are convinced that this woman
Is heart and soul with Germany"
wrote the department of justice. which
advised Judge Wade il Would be glad To
learn size had received a life sentence.
as II regarded her one Of the govern
ment's most dangerous and unscrupu-
lous enemies. Judge Wade was In
formed that Mrs. OfIlare last summer
had informed the Socialists that the
sky was the limit for acts Of .isoyalty
in st. Louis, as the city was against
the war and the authorities were
afraid 10 modest the Socialists.
The iaiist quoted remarks Mrs.
o'llare had made III GarrlDhn, y. D.,
Just prior Ia her arrest, when she again
referred to mothers who gave sons 10
the army as brood animals where sho
said we were in the war because
American capitalists must get back
money loaned the allies and that ii ".
had loaned money fo Germany we
would now be fighting against instead
of with the allies.
Deties the Court.
Mrs. O'llare spoke for more than an
hour in her own behalf
Ten thousand Judges and ten thou
sand juries will not convince the hum
dred thousand American people who
have heard my voice and looked into
my eyes, nor the millions who have
read my writings that am n criminal"
! said Mrs, o'Hare IN warning the court
that her conviction would add To social
unrest.
Her arrest, trial and convictions she
declared, purely a plot of war prof.
teers exploiting the people on one hand
and debasne the government on tho
other, who desired in this way to re-
move from their path a woman they
found dangerous to their cause.
She insisted she had never been ac-
CltSed of pr convicted of a crime, bur
merely of intent To commit crime
/ This Judge and jury usurp the right OF
God Almighty when they pretend to
| look down into my heart and find hid
! den motives there" declared tho
! speaker.
Mrs. o'iiare devoted large part
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