The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-06-17
HUGE CROWD GREET
KATE 0'HARE.
Delivers Speech from Stand Old Ball Park-Abou Two
thousand Hear Lady Orator Speak on Crimes and
Criminals Stories of Prison Atrocities and How
Prison Boss Has Power Of Life and Bar
barities Practiced. NN1# = p

frlson Boss Has Power o.
barities Practiced.
SMART ALECS" FRY
Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, fanaous
woman orator and humanitarian, Who
was sent to prison on frame Up
from North Dakota, on the cnarge Of
having uttered remarks calculated to
discourage enlistment and thus in
terfere with the prosecution of the
war, and who served fourteen months
in the State Prison of Missouri at
Jefferson City, as a Federal prisoner,
and where she for that length of time
made overalls, having had task of
ei2hty-eight per day, spoke to crowd
numbering in the neighborhood of
two thousand at the old ball park on
the land of Editor C. S. Nelson of the
Plentywood Herald, Tuesday after
noon at three o'clock.
The crowd had gathered from all
parts Of the county to hear Mrs.
O'Hare tell Of her prison experiences
and deliver her famous lecture on
Crime and Criminals" which she has
delivered before audiences numbering
hundreds of thousands in the different
parts Of the United States. There
were people in Plentywood from the
western part Of Daniels county and
the southern part of Roosevelt county
to hear the lecture, besides the large
crowds coming from all parts Of
Sheridan county.
Charles Westphal, who had promot-
ed the meeting, introduced the speak
er who was received with applause.
After apologizing to the auditors
for being compelled to listen to 81 her
lecture out of doors in the hot sun,
because of the inability to secure a
hall in Plentywood, owing to the ac-
tivities of a number of "smart alecs"
and self professed patriots who have
developed such an inflated opinion Of
themselves as to believe themselves to
be qualified to tell the farmers and
general public who they shall hear lee.
ture and who they shall not, Mrs. o.
Hare plunged into her lecture and
held her audience spell bound in the
burning hot sun for two hours and
ten minutes as she delivered her lee
ture, being master of the audience
from the opening to the close of her
address. u. Mrs. O'Hare is powerful
speaker, and has an ability of work
ing back into her subject and dyna
miting away all opposition to her ar
guments. When the time came to
appeal to the emotions, she proved
herself an artist and the most harden
ed and experienced men wiped away
the tears as Mrs. O'Hare told of the
of prison, and the soul
ife and spirit Of love and sacrifice
by: those whom fate has
committed to our horrible prisons,
here to be tortured and abused and
.orgotten by all mankind. Mrs.
1'Hare's speech was often interrupt
ID by applause. After the speech a
collection was taken which amounted |
@ about $40 and which is almost |
.nough to pay the expenses of the
Meeting.
The people universally pronounced
heir appreciation Of Mrs. O'Hare's
ecture, "Crime and Criminals" and
many who prior td hearing her we're
much prejudiced against the lady
lave in unstinteds terms praised the
ecture and acknowledge that they
we're. greatly moved by it and that
hey were very pleased to have heard
drs O'Hare, and are anxious to see
he conditions described by Mrs.
)'Hare aklished i the prisons in the
Mrs,1 Hare took many subscrip-