Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-02
Ripsnorting Lands
Fears No Bomb
(Chicago Tribune.l

l'nlctEo ITlpune,1
Bombs even real ones, hold no ter
rors for Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands. the lean. keen whip OF the gov
eminent, the scourge OF the disloyal
and the vicious. ~
Ii IL not the first threat he has re-
ceived--that mysterious package left
yesterday In his courtroom. In his long
career on the federal bench he has
nrnde hundreds OF bitter enemies.
He laughs at danger A queer light
comes into his eyes when he talks of
the many threatening letters sent to
him: he losses his white name. He
shakes that Anger which has pointed
at 80 many evildoers, striking them
dumb. And he says: Il have no yellow
streak"
Gets Black Hand Threat.
There was the time when G!anni
Aiongi was on trial before him,
charged with writing threatening let
tiers to woman. The Black Hand
wrote him, You discharge Alongi Oh
We will kill YOU"
The judge in addressing the jury
made remarks In this fashion,:
The man who is influenced tn,
fraction Of a hairs breadth by having
received n threat is as guilty of COR
ruption as though he had taken
money bride. And nowhere in the
whole wide world is there room enough
for a man corrupted"
A Rip Snortins American.
He's a rip snorting. why. lighting
tobacco chewing American. There's
punch in both his fists and a punch in
his tongue. He's human rasp. He
wears the truth out OF liars; he bites
assets out Of bankrupt frauds: and files
loan sharks into human beings
Seneca Indian on a Wisconsin res
ervation who saw the judge in action
and listened.to his language gave him
the name "Sago- Ie- Wat Ha." which
means He Who Keeps En- Awake"
He was born on an Ohio farm lit
tie more than fifty-two years ago His
father. Abraham, was still suffering
from cannon ball wound suffered at
the battle Of Kenesaw mountain And
there you have the origin OF the judges
name.
Shows His Loyalty.
Born of Il civil war veteran, named
after battle. the judge just couldn't
help being an American. But during
the war he showed he was one of the
foremost of the "Yanks." He was so
active that several big men in the Re-
publican party have considered hin
good timber for a presidential candi,
date"
He gave his only son Reed to tn
nation. Gave him? He would hav,
cuffed the boy if he hadn't been eager
to go. He crowed when the youngstcl
got into Col. FOreman's outfit then the
LIST Illinois cavalry. He swore by him
and Of him-swore in real he man Ian
guage.
And when Reed became a lieutenant
of aviation, and then a captain, and
finally major. a real American ace
with twelve planes to his credit: why.
his daddy almost burst with pride
Sentences III Slaekers.
He took grim pleasure in sentencing
III slackers who took part in Il riot in
Rockford shortly after the war began:
gave them year and day, and dub
bed them Whining and belly aching
puppies" and called to the bailiffs to
take them from his sight quick.
He smited the profiteers, talked of fir
ing squads for German spies in America.
cursed the politicians who. catered to
the votes of the hyphenates; worked
for all the liberty loans, the war say
ings stamp drives. the Red Cross, and
other patriotic endeavors; took air
flights. made speeches, thundered from
the bench and the rostrum-and when
asked what he thought of the bone
dry law said it was "a damned good
thing" =. .ft
All over the country the anti Amer
lean element yipped and parked and
growled at him, and then came the
trials of the l. w. WIS and the Social
lists, which modified against him an
army of bolshevists and other fiery
radicals.
How He Tried the I. W. w.
One hundred l. w. W.'s-"wabblies,
sal -cats'-came surly, shackled, and
guarded into Judge Lands court room
last year, indicted on charge Of con-
spiracy to violate the espionage act.
They came in hostile, determined 20
fight this judge they had heard so
much about, this white haired tyrant.
And he let them chew tobacco in the
courtroom; he had rows and rows OF
cuspidors placed for them; he heard
their complaints about the food in the
county jail and had them fed In a
nearby courtroom which was vacant
And he got them saftey razors too.
Before he was thru with them they
were sending him letters Of thanks.
But they didn't impose on him for
single minute.
The judge gave Big Bill Haywood,
the uncrowned king Of the Sab cats"
a prison term Of twenty years; and
ninety-two others were sent to Leav-
enworth for from one to twenty years.
There were also fines ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000 aggregating in all
s2.3O0.000.
in his spe=ch fixing the sentences
he ripped up the defense, said the jury
could have found no other verdict. Hc
had heard every word Of the testimony
and had been patient turnout, and leni-
ent turnout; but when tne time came
to strike he struck hard. The majesty
of the United States had been assailed
and he had no mercy, save for very
feu who we're more weak than vicious.