The Lamar register., 1922-05-10
FACTS VS.. UNITED PRESS
United Press and Other Agencies Con-
trolled by International Bankers
Are Sending Out All Kinds
of Lies.

The organization of bankers inter
ested in foreign loans and investments
are turning every dirty trick possible
to turn the people against the pres
ent administration. Their object is to
get the government to cancel its
claims against European governments
SO as to increase the possibility of
collecting their own. In this matter
they have employed the United Press
and other news agencies of similar
calibre and are editing their reports
sent out from Washington. Of all
their contemplate lies the ones re-
garding President Harding and At
torney General Dougherty refusing to
see a delegation of children pleading
for their fathers release from prison
is the worst.
These prisoners are all men sentenc-
ed during the war for disloyalty to the
country, and the children were brought
to Washington by big fund raised
by anarchists for the purpose and
their rags are for effect only. They
are well fed and well housed and are
in charge of Kate o'Hara, who has
penitentiary record and is well known
in radical circks. At the time of the
entrance of the United States into the
war she was the associate editor of
"The Social Revolution" After the
United States entered the war she be-
gan her activities in North Dakota by
opposing the draft act. Her public
speeches were reasonable and sedit-
ious. She characterized young men
"who are foolish enough to enlist as
being only good enough for German
fertilizer" and the mothers of sons
who enlisted as being no better than
"brood sows." This is mild sample
of her speeches melting rebellion and
resistance to the draft act and to all
other policies OF the government in
times Of war.
She was indicted, arrested and tried
upon the charge of violation of the
espionage act and on December z, 1917,
at Fargo, North Dakota, she was sem
fenced to serve term of five years In
the federal penitentiary. There fol-
lowed upon the part of her attorneys
the usual motions for delay, re-hear-
ings, re-trials, etc, which kept her out
of the penitentiary until early in the
year 1919. Her last effort to escape
serving time came to naught when the
U. S. Supreme Court in March, 1919,
refused to review her case. She went
to the penitentiary and began to serve
time April Ia, 1919. On May %, 1920,
President Wilson pardoned her. Since
that time she has been active in behalf
Of social revolution" in the United
States.
The children were very shabbily
dressed upon their arrival in Washing
ton in order to provide the proper
spectacular effect. They were provid-
ed with banners carrying all sorts of
inscriptions making demands upon the
President and headed in parade led
by Kate O'Hara to the White House.
They were forbidden to carry the
banners into the White House grounds
just as all other delegations are serv-
ed according to long established rules
and used this as an excuse to say the
President refused to see them. They
were received by the Attorney Cen
eral and told that no pardons could be
issued without investigation. And
from this the hired press agents and
league of nation politicians have in
vented ell their stories. The other
sensations sent out from Washington
by the United Press have just the
same kind of foundation.