Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
SOCIALISTS REvEL.
SATURDAY NIGHT
MRS. O'HARE SPEAKS-IS
HAPPY ON WAY TO
PRISON, SHE SAYS
None Quite So Popular i'm q. S., She
Declares, As Those on Way to Serve
Sentence-"Stirreth Up People"
Cause Court Decisions

| tduSe OOurC decisions
Posing as martyr, whose trial anC
conviction along with dozens of other:
who had violated the espionage ac
was comparable to the trial and con
viction before Pontius PLATE sin tn,
first days of Christiandom, Mrs Kate
Richards O'Hare, sentenced to serve
| term of five years for intent to violat,
the Espionage Act, talked glibly be
fore a receptive and attentive audi
ence, which packed the Grand Opera
House last Saturday evening. Mrs
O'Hare's talk was not only a typical
socialist address; her sympathies were
with the Bolshevists of Russia; her
ideals of a similar nature The speak
er's sarcasm was her only wit. Mrs
ORaTe's daughter, a girl of about 15
years, preceded her with a poem.
COnyicts Most Popular
at is queer thing that i'm the
United States there seems to be nc
human being so popular as convict
on the way to prison for having VIC.
lated the Espionage Act" she re-
marked at the start, receiving a re-
/
idential election we heard the shibbo-
leth: Vote for Wilson; He kept us
out of war and we did it. The ink
on our ballots was hardly dry when
we found ourselves in war There is
one great fact of human psychology
the masses never arrive at any con-
clusion through an appeal to reason
or logic. War is not made by an indi-
vidual nor can an individual make
war. War is the inevitable result of
great economic changes; the out
growth of thee apital system. We
saw girls shoulder the most loathe-
some jobs of industry to make the
world safe for democracy. Yes, we
made Russia, Germany and Hungary
safe for democracy, but at the same
time we saw all of our Democracy i'm
| the United States go glimmering. We
saw the tent of Democracy fold like
an Arabs, and flee to Russia. We
wanted to remain the same, balanced
and poised in the United States. = =
When the war started the cOnStitu-
tiOn was packed in moth balls and
placed on Il shelf"
| She declared "AmericaniSm" to be
one of the great phrases introduced
during the war to fascinate the peo-
| pie. "It had the headlines in the
papers and strange things occurred
under its banner. Max Eastman, in
Fargo, N. D., before he had spoken
one word, was set upon by home
guards, lot of drunken boys. L was
billed to speak at Erie, Pa, at this
time. The paper of that town an
nounced in fiaring headlines that l
was to appear and urged the patriots
of the city to be on hand with shot
guns and the women with brooms and
dustpans. All of these pin-headed
editors of yours in town were shout
ing 'Americanism.' The ouse bursted
with applause when Mrs. O'Hare gave
her examples of "outlawry and thug
gerry" and condemned the narrowness
of newspaper editors.
Word Strikes Blow
| "And then" she continued, "when
it was all over and the armistice was
| signed, there was invented the
word that has the power to strike a
deadly blow to your bankers, your
commercial club members and to make
| them turn a pea green, but one that
has the opposite effect on the mass
They feel themselves infused with a
holy passion at the sound of it. II
strikes deadly blow to the classes
of privilege but it has the power tC
raise the workers to freedom. 1t il
that strange, awe-inspiring word
BOlsheVism. All over the world it II
heard. Ii influenced by what YOU
editors say-it means, ugh! ugh!-
cOnfiScatiOn, murder and free love. L
anarchy and fire are coming down thu
street we ought to get excited. WIZ
do you sit there uncOncerned, Will,
your editors are shaking fit 2 1t i.
because the word has familiar sound
The news editors of Wausau are 81
sterile of brains that they can't thinl
of one new point, not torn to tatters
That's why you're not concerned
There is an old dynamic force back o
1.-THE meaning of the word is old
Mrs. O'Hare proceeded to give ex
amples of strife between the "workin,
class" and the ruling class" througl
the ages. Referring to policemen sh
/ said: Whenever the ruling class give
an order to the police department o
any city or locality, the police alway
4 Because they know their master
: voice."
! At the trial of Christ, according t
! the speaker, the judge came down il
I the middle of the night on being sum
{ moned. The people, she said, wer
, not the poor and ragged as alway
I depicted. "They were of the rulin
I class" she said, "for no Judge woul
Z come down in response to the appea
! of the masses, but for the others
] judges always do, have you eve
J noticed Take your own municipa
! judge for example, he is not very bis
! but if a bunch of wobblies brough
! something to him in the middle of tn
! night, would he come down H
: would say, wait until morning.
Whenever the ruling class demand
: the attention of a federal judge, h
/. is always there.
2 Says She's Not Criminal
Il sat trough many days at the tria
!. of Victor Berger and a week at m
!. own trial. No one claimed Berge
was a criminal, nor was the state
ment made that l was a crimina
I. In face the opposite was said But wit
Berger they said: He stirreth u
. the people, He stirreth up the people
: and with me the prosecuting attorne
. said l had more brains than all th
= attorneys in the court and that l wa
I a dangerous woman And so the
Il said before Pcntius Plate when tn
3 mob saved the murderer in preferenc
d to the one wearing the crown {
4 thorns.
4 Social unrest will never be stille
I until it is stilled by social justice. W
I honor Jefferson, Payne and others bt
4 cause they were willing to shed bloc
I to kill the despotism which controlle
4 them. Washington, Jefferson and ott
I ers were villified as the Socialist of tG
! day and the Bolshevist of tomorrow
I We saw the same outlawry and thus
gerry as we have had under the banne