Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
ATTACKS JUDGE
WHO SENTENCED
Her TO PRISON
Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, Social
ist, Scores Martin Wade of
Federal Court.

Speaking in stacatto sentences
which snapped like a whip-lash in
the hushed and crowded hall, Mrs
Kate Richards O'Hare extolled the
virtues of socialism. upheld or
ganized labor and rhetorically
crushed the capitalistic class and
the legally constituted authority oil
the United States government al
Northwest Davenport Turner hall
Thursday evening.
In pointed, singing words, she
attacked what she was pleased 20
call THE ruling class" Time and
again she referred sarcastically ana
maliciously to Federal Judge Mar
tin j. Wade, who recently SEN
fenced her to prison under the es-
pionage act. She enters prison on
Feb. g.
Compared to Judge Martin j
Wade" said Mrs. O'Hare, the
German officer who stood Edith
CayeH against a wall and put a
bullet through her heart was 4
scholar, a Christian and a gentle
man."
Reverting to her trial, she de-
clared: They called me a dang
erous woman. They said l had
more brains than all the attorneys
in the court room put together.
And for that reason L should be
sent to prison.
Il am dangerous, and I'm proud
of it. I'm dangerous to Judge
Wade, and he'll find it out. I'll get
his goat yet" The crowd applaud
ed vociferously.
All through Mrs. O'Hare's talk
ran references to her ancestors
who, it seems, were prominent in
the early days of the United States.
She said they walked barefooted
through Valley Forge with WASH
ington,' sat at the conference
where the Declaration of indie
pendence was drawn up, fought
through the war of 1912, the In
dian wars and the Civil war. Her
father, she said, was a drummer
boy and later a standard bearer in
the Union army in the great strug-
gle of '61-'64.
"And then" she summed up,
'they call me a pro-German. They
said 1 was not loyal; that l was
dangerous to the country. Not a
single drop of Teutonic blood flows
in my veins, as far as l know.
am descended from Welsh and
Scotch ancestry"
She said she had been working
for 20 years in the interests of the
Iaboring class, and that she had
received 10000 times as much as
she had put into her life work.
Don't feel sorry for me-" she beg
ged her audience. Il have lived.
which is more than thousands of
social parasites can say"
She likened the slave markets of
the ante-bellum days to the pres
ent working conditions, and said
that instead of having themselves
sold without any effort on their
part, the working men of today are
forced to beg employers to buy
them.
She referred sneeringly to the
government labor problem. 1.-TWO
months ago things were different"
she said. THE country was at war
then. But today, instead of labor
being at a premium, it's jobs that
are at a premium
That the country would undergo
political revolution sometime,
either in years or in months, was
predicted by Mrs. O'Hare. What
our forefathers did-that handful
of men on the eastern coast of this
great country-was nothing more
or less than a revolt against the
constitutional authority OF that
day." she declared.
"They did exactly what we So
cjalists are going to do some day.
It will come. I don't know wheth-
er it will be years. or whether it
will be months, but it will come"