Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-18
AUDIENCE OF eco LiSTEkS TO
WOMAN SOCIALIST ATTACK
MEN AND GOVERNMENT.
JUDGE WADE SCORED
~ MRS. KATE o'hARG,
Jurist Who Sentenced Woman to Pri.
son at One Time 10 Bslittlsd-Sym.
pathetic Audience Panhandled For
Funds With Which TO support Pro.
fsssional Socialist and Her Children.

Davenport, Jan. 1S.-Approximately
500 people listened spellbound as Kate
richards O'hara 'panned' American
industrial "junkers,' newspaper edi.
tors, corrupt politicians and JUDGES, 1T
Northwest Davenport Turner hall
Thursday evening. The meeting at.
traced many curiosity seekers. some
SOCIALISTS and ai.U some peou.e WHO
presided over ~ Alderman Waiter H.
.,ia.u.r Vi inc second w.Iu. Alder
inah ouUIee j. iecK VI ,nC iirst ward
ihu Mrs. ~ itare were Inc ,wo speak
ers ot the evening.
The curiosity seekers, who expected
to find in Mrs. Unare the rau.d So
cIalist OF the soap-pox variety were
Iii ST. ppointed. While her lecture Was
largeiy q denunciation OF class as OPP
posed to the masses. she did not resort
to rantings, but by her Fiery elopuence
swaycd her audience, first into laugn-
ter, then to tears, then elaborated ner
socIalistic doctrines. II numerous peo-
pie In the audience VINO conversed III
German before the lecture came TO
bsar the United States ripped up the
back" as one person expressed il, they
were disappointed. Mrs. O'Hare was
adroit. She claimed that her ancestors
were Irish and Welsh people and that
there was not a drop of Ieuton blood
in her veins, as far as she could learn.
She also paid her compliments to the
kaiser and his junkers III no uncertain
language. Her pet aversion, however,
seemed to be Judge Mar,in }. Wade,
who sentenced her to 1--WE years IN
prisonment at trial in North Dakota
tor violation OF the espionage act. At
frequent intervals she referred to him
with some derogatory remark.
That she would probably die in pri-
son was emphasized by Mrs. O'Hare,
who declared that the German officer
who ended the life of Edith Cavcli was
more OF Christian than Judge Wade.
The German officer. she said, permit
ted Edith Cavell to die a martyrs
death for a great cause. Judge Wade
would not order her shot. but would
kill her by tearing her away from her
children and leave her TO die slowly in
prison. Edith Savelrs death, she
claimed, pierced the heart of Prussian-
ism, and who knows but that Kate
O'Hare's death in prison will not make
her martyr for socialism in the
United States" Mrs. O'Hare. however.
failed to give the reasons why she had
been sentenced by the United states
district court.
After he ha<1 v,n;ot.<J All. az
verbal picture, Mrs. OHare asked:
You say Isn't there something tina.
can be done for me'?" Then she made
an appeal for the support of her four
children that they might be educated
to take up the fight Of the masses. She
also urged liberal contributions to fight
the cases OF about 1000 socialists now
under arrest for political offenscs and
for support in the movement to have
$500 conscientious directors and poll
teal offenders released from prison IN
this county.
Greatest Pride Of Life.
Judge Wade says am a dangerous
woman. Judge Wade Is right and l
thank God that l am dangerous to
greedy. vicious war profiteers, to the
corrupt politician. to judges like Judge
Wade. l will get his goat yet. The
fact that they fear me is the greatest
pride Of my life" At another time
during the evening she said that she
had been sentenced to Fort Leaven-
worth, not because she was un-Ameri-
can or pro- German. but because she
had more brains than all the lawyers
in the court room combined.
Praises Russian Regime.
The Russian workingmen have es~
tablished the first absolute democracy
the world has even known" said Mrs.
O'Hare. 1T Is a democracy no. for Il
handful as that formed by our ravolu-
forefathers. but q democracy
for 100000. 900 people.
THE less you know about history
the better democrats and republicans
you will make.
Soldiers went overseas and estab-
lished democracy in central Europe.
They are coming back to establish y
democracy in the United States. They
drove out the junkers of Germany and
are going to drive out the junkers of