Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-15
FIVE YEARS IN
PEMTENIlARY
FOR MRS. 0'HARE
Trial and Conviction Plot of
War Profteers, She
,... Declares.
She Thanked God She Was
Dangerous to the Invisi-
BILE Government.

Bismarck, n. D.. Dec. 15.-A sent
ence of five years in the penitentiary
at Jefferson City, Missouri, was impos-
ed yesterday by Judge Martin j.. Wade
o: Des Moines on Mrs. Kate Richards
O'Hare. convicted Of making utter
last summer tending to discourage
obedience to the military registration.
The sentence followed a long speech
by Mrs. O'Hare, in which she reiter-
ated statements declaring her opposi-
ton to war and. defied Federal Judge
Wade to do his worst.
Witnesses at her trial testified that
Mrs. O'Hare declared in her speech at
Bowman, that mothers who raised
their sons to be cannon fodder were
no better thar a farmers brood SOW"
and that young men who are foolish
enough to enlist or volunteer are only
good enough for German fertilizer"
Judge Wade, before pronouncing
sentence. read reports from the post
office department at Washington tell
ing of the necessity for exclusion from
mails for gross violations of the postal
laws Of the Social Revolution, which
Mrs. O'Hare formerly edited, the
postoffice department stating it con-
sidered Mrs. O'Hare an extremist of
the wing of the Socialist party that is
doing everything it can to handicap
the government. The judge produced
a letter from the department of justice
at st. Louis. Mo-, giving a record of
the socialist convention held there
last summer when Mrs. O'Hare vas
chairman of the committee which in
troduced resolutions so radical that
Joseph Spargo and other temperate
socialists left the party.
These resolutions urged congress
men to vote against all war appropri-
atoms; urged laboring classes to use
massed resistance to CONSUMPTION, de-
clared Americas entrance into the
a the most dishonorable act in the
nations history; insisted the people
had not been consulted; gave the lie to
President Wilson'S recent declaration
to the world hat this was not a war
on the German people; declared ma
tional patriotism a sham and that in
teriational solidarity was the only
salvation of the workers, and insisted
that Americas wal vas as purely cap
tia listic as that Of any nation in
Europe.
Sympathetic With Germany.
I'VE are convinced that this woman
lis heart and soul, with Germany"
sNHEote the46epartnent Of justice, which
to- learn she had received a life sent
ence as it regarded her one of the
governments most dangerous and un.
Ecrupulous enemies; Judge Wade was
informed that Mrs. O'Hare last sum-
mer had informed the socialists thai
the sky was the limit for acts Of dis.
loyalty in St. Louis as the city was
against the war and the authorities
were afraid to modest the socialists.
The jurist quoted remarks Mrs
O'1Iare had made in Garrison, N. D..
just prior to her arr 81 when she again
referred to mothers who gave sons tc
the army as brood animals; where she
said we were in~ h war because
American capitalists must get back
money loaned the Allies and that il
we had loaned money to Germany w
would now be fighting against instead
of with the Allies.
Mrs. O'Hare spoke for more than
an hour in her own behalf.
"Ten thousand judges and ten thous.
and juries will not convince the hun.
dred thousand American people who
have heard my voice and looked into
my eyes nor the millions who have
read my writing that I am a criminal
said Mrs. O'Hare, in warning the court
that her conviction would add to socia.
unrest.
Her arrest. trial and conviction she
declared purely a plot of war proflteers
exploiting the people on one hand and