The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-07-11
KATE o,HARE AND THE Law.

How strikingly the plants OF abb
Quoted Kate O'Hare prove that those
who condemn our laws in toto-who
even go d~efiantly to our pe~nitentiaries
for having denounced and violated
them-are the first to ask their pro-
lection!
Mrs. O'Hare belongs to the class OF
agitators who have advocated for us
a government like Russia's but, upon
experiencing the liberties" of life IN
Russia, have preferred returning to a
prison in this country to being at
liberty there.
The truth is, these people belong to
that great army of those who V
found out that there is an easy living
in propaganda. Theirs is the profess
sion Of CAB.
Kate O'Hare, of the profession of
CAB, went to Twin Falls. 1t is rea-
sonable to expect that the people OF
Twin Falls a read and believed that
Kate O,Hare not only denounced and
violated our laws in wartime, but de-
cIared that American boys would be
good fertilizer for the fields of France
and called their mothers brood
sows."
There are people in Twin Falls who
lost sons in the war. There are young
men from Twin Falls MANNED and dis
abled for life. There are returned
soldiers in Twin Falls who went
through all the hell of it in defense
of the liberties Mrs. O'Hare misused
and in support of the laws she VIC
lated.
The presence of this woman in their
city was undoubtedly an offense
against all their higher feelings OF
patriotism and loyalty. They felt
themselves tainted, goaded to desper-
alton. Under h pressure OF c1rcum-
stances, some Of them violated the
law.
The state of Idaho cannot, Of course,
countenance lawlessness, even in the
name Of patriotism n Americanism.
1t cannot justify abduction any more
than it could a lynching, even in the
name of high ideals and right living.
Even in cases where the human pas
sions are goaded to such an extent
that they break down the barrier of
the law and blindly defy it, the state
must stand inflexibly for strict en-
forcement.
The act of the abductors in Twin
Falls is not to be %condoned, but it is
the sort of thing that there has never
beer any means of preventing. 1t is
a natural reaction against laws which,
designed to give liberty to right
minded citizens, operate sometimes to
protect the criminal and, in so many
cases, enable him to escape the just
punishment we have a right to expect.
The law must be enforced. The So
luton of all these difficulties is: The
law must be enforced. If we repeat it
and repeat it until we have developed
procedures that will allow quick and
speedy punishment of crime, then,
when we lave come to the era in
which every criminal is promptly and
sufficiently punished, there will be no
Kate O'Hares at large to stir the PEG
I,le to revolt.
The rule in the past has been, or
seems to have been, the greater the
crime the less the chance of punish
ment. We must change it. We must
follow up our great criminals, those
who strike at the life of a nation no
less than those who strike at the life
of an individual. We must give them
law and. when conviction is re-
ceived, carry out the punishment to
the end.-Roise Statesman.
PLAIN ROBBERY.
Warning has been sounded in the
United States senate that the coal
barons are pulling the wires prepara-
tory to another holdup in the price of
coal next winter.
Coal and railroad barons know this.
They lave profited from it in the
past, and they expect to do so in the t
future. The public can not conceive
of the possibility of a kick that would
upset the bucket. /,
It is not surprising. On the n 3
trary. it is quite to be expected. Of s
ficialdom has boosted loudly and long
Of dire punishments to be inflicted .
pom gougers. In fact, there has been
so much of blowing and bunk Their
has beer, no room left for action
A United States senator has given
public and timely warning Of tre +
scheme. 1t is Up to some one to I
thwart It. We have an attorney gen. J
eral of the United States. We have /,
district attorneys all wei the United ,
States. We have a Law that deals i