The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-06-11
ARKANSAS JUDGE GRILLS A MIN.
ISTERIAL PACIFIST.

| IHCiO 10 Oh Oiu saying tudI
words were invented to conceal
thought" There is another turn to
the matter, that could be expressed
in another way by saying that words
are sometimes like things of living
fire, scorching, burning, soaring and
scarifying." 1t was speech of this
kind that an Arkansas jurist, Judge
w. ]. Driver, of Paragould, Ark,
used in denouncing pacifist.
1t seems that minister of the
Gospel had been hailed before the
Judge for alleged seditious utterances
and for the efforts to prevent the
men from enlisting. The Judge felt
the minister was guilty, but that he
was not convicted because his neigh
bOrs seemed to be of the same mind
as the preacher The Judges re-
mars are peculiarly applicable to
the situation here at the present
time, not referring to any minister
of the Gospel in this city at all, but
to some weakened, pro-German pac-
fists in our vicinity, that THE
NEWS takes pleasure in reproducing
what we consider one of the most re-
markedly appropriate and well-de-
served tongue-lashings any human
being ever received from the lips of
another human. When the minister
had been dismissed by the jury, Judge
Driver said:
Il am surprised and Inundated
and deeply panied to find that the
sacred affairs of religion are being
used for the preaching of such a con-
temptible and vigorous form of rea-
soning. In Mississippi county, and
in all of the other counties of North
east Arkansas, l have found that
these men of God have been ready
and constantly ready to respond to
every call made upon their time and
their means when such calls are for
patriotic or moral purposes. They
have asked me repeatedly and with
great emphasis to use more time than
had been allotted me in speeches for
the Red Cross, the Y. M. G.. A. and
for kindred organizations, the inf1u-
ence of which blend into the common
cause war. Therefore, when l hear
that in Green county, in a detached
portion of this community, a man
who should be a leader and whose
work should be an inspiration to
others; when l find that this degrad-
ed, misguided, villianous viper, this
scapegrace and reprobate who now
stands before me has been using the
pulpit as a means of melting Opposi-
ton to the direct mandates of the
Government, under which he has liv-
ed and under which his relatives live
and enjoy the liberties and blessings
Of democracy; when l am told that
community will permit the spreading
of this gangrenous doctrine; when
am convinced that this man has been
pointing the finger of criticism at the
White House, and has failed to lend
his wholehearted support to the Red
Cross and the angels of mercy who
are to-day pressing cold cloths
against the feverish lips of wounded
American soldiers on the battlefronts
of France; when l find that this
mans influence has been directed in
channels that give aid and comfort
to the enemy and if repeated in Ber
in would cause a smile of satisfaction
to play upon the lips of Won Hinden-
burg and the demOniacal HohenZOl-
lerns; when these things are brought
to my attention and l realize that
the holy principles for which we are
fighting are being shredded and
ground into the dust by this hair
Drained defendant and his kind;
when l realize that these things are
true, feel an almost irresistible de-
sire to call down the wrath of God
upon his head or to inquire why a
supposedly decent and law-abiding
community has permitted his poison
Gus footprints to desecrate even the
sands of the highways.
| This man is discharged because of
the apparent effort of his neighbOrs
and his friends to shield him in his
traitorous and reasonable attitude.
l wish it were within my power to
impose sentence to At the crime. But
since this power is not within my
hands, 1 want him taken from my
sight as quickly as possible. Have
him leave the court room. Get him
away with the least possible delay.
Mr.. Sheriff, 1 command you to clear
this court house of his presence and
do it at once"
Pa p "a