, 1922-05-10
What Next?

fDEcENTLY, 7. h. Caraway, a Democratic senator
III in the United States Senate, from Arkansas, rose
in his place gave utterance to the following which
DE knew at the time was pure bunk" but which he
was willing TO express to the qualification of his
honor for such political effect as it. might have with
the ignorant, the unthinking and the radical elements
.of our population:
Recently, Nh. President, a number of children
smisguided it may be, unwise it may be, but believing
from newspaper stories that the president had a heart
.and that he was sympathetic-came here on a weary
scrusade asking to see the president on their little
Blended knees to ask him TO pardon their fathers They
swere not able to hire lawyers and what happened?
7They were refused an audience with the president of
these United States. Having nothing but the hope of
ENERGY in their little hearts and nothing to clothe
them but their tattered rags, they were denied a hear
ingp
The incident which furnished an excuse for this
low bred villification of the president of the United
States was q carefully advertised "~chidren's crusade
having for its object the pardon Of a number of men
now serving time in federal prisons because of their
reasonable and sedftious actions against the United
States government while it was in war. The children
in this Crusade are alleged to be the children of
men who are serving time in federal penitertiari.-
because of their seditious actions during the war. The
children were collected by a group of radical agita-
tors and brought to Washington to furnish a spsctac-
ular advertisement for the radical movement. This
carefully organized stunt" had been planned for
weeks. The leading spirit was Kate Richards o'Hare
who made her headquarters in st. Louis during the
preliminary campaign.
Kate O'Hare has a penitentiary record and is vel
known in radical circles. At the time Of the entrance
OF the United States into the war she was tba asso
ciate editor of "The Social Revolution" After the
United States entered the war she began her actiyitie,
in North Dakota by opposing the draft act. Her pub
lie speeches were reasonable and seditious. Shs
characterized young men '+who are foolish enough t.
enlist as being only good enough for German ferti
lizer," and the mothers of sons who enlisted as bein,
no better than brood sows." This is a mild sample
OF her speeches melting rebellion and resistance Il
the draft act and TO all other policies of the govern
ment in times of war.
She was indicted, arrested an. tried upon tn,
eharge OF violation Of the espionage act and on Decem
fenced to serve a term of five years in the fedora
penitentiary. There followed upon the part of he
attorneys the usual motions for delay, re-hearinsy
re-trials, etc, which kept her out of the peuitentiar
until early IN the year 1919. Her last effort to escap
serving tune came to naugh when the u. S. Suprem
court IN March, 1919, refused to review her case. Sh
went to the penitentiary and began to serve tim
april - 1919. On May %, 1920, President wilso
pSru9nea her. Since that time she has been actiy
me children we're very stability dressed upon the
arrival IN order TO provide the proper gpectacuia