The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-19
JUDGE OENOUNCES
PEACE PREACHER
KANSAS JURIST SCORES
THOSE WHO PREACH PEACE
WHEN THERE is NONE

Circuit Judge w. j. Driver of Para
gould, Ark, knows how to denounc
q pacifist in way worthy of emula
ton. We envy him his power to eX
press his sentiments on the subject
A so-called minister of the gospe
had been hailed before the judge TO-
alleged seditious utterances and TO-
efforts to prevent men from enlisting
The judge felt the minister wa.
guilty, but that he was not convicted
because his neighbors seemed to be
of the same mind as the preacher
and so when the latter had been dis
missed by the jury Judge Driver from
the bench said:
81 am surprised and Inundated
and deeply panied to find that the
sacred affairs of religion are being
used for the preaching of such con-
temptible and vigorous form of rea-
soning. In Mississippi county, and in
all of the other counties of northeast
Arkansas, I have found that these
men of God have been ready and con-
stantly 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 al
lotted me in speeches for the Red
Cross, the Y. M. G. A. and for kindred
organizations, the influence of which
blend into the common-cause war.
Therefore, when / hear that In
Greene county, in detached portion
of this community, a man who should
be leader and whose work should
be an inspiration to others; when I
find that this degraded, misguided,
villainous viper, this scapegrace and
reprobate who now stands before me
mas been using the pulpit as a means
If melting opposition to the direct
mandates of the government, under
which he has lived and under which
lis relatives live and enjoy the liber-
les and blessings of democracy; when
am told that community will per-
nit the spreading of this gangrenous
doctrine; when / am convinced that
his man has been pointing the finger
# criticism at the white house, and
las failed to lend his wholehearted |
Import to the Red Cross and the
ngels of mercy who are today press |
ng cold cloths against the feverish |
ips of wounded American soldiers on
he battle fronts Of France; when /
ind that this mans influence has
cen directed in channels that give
id and comfort to the enemy and if
epeated in Berlin would cause a
mile of satisfaction to play upon the
ps of Won Hindenburg and the de-
lonical Hohenzollerns; when these
1ings are brought to my attention
nd realize that the holy principles
'r which we are fighting are being
lredded and ground into the dust by
lis hair-brained defendant and his
nd; when I realize that these things
'e true, | feel an almost irresistible
,sire to call down the wrath of God
pom his head or to inquire why a
lpposedly decent and law-abiding
immunity has permitted his poison
is footprints to desecrate even the
.nds of the highways.
"This man is discharged because of
e apparent effort of his neighbors
I'd his friends to shield him in his
aitorous and reasonable attitude. I
sh it were within my power to i'm
'se sentence to fit the crime. But
nee this power is not within my
.nds, want him taken from my
yht as quickly as possible. Have
N leave the courtroom. Get him
ray with the least possible delay.
r. Sheriff, command you to clear
is courthouse of his presence and
do it at once"