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Show WHAT THE COURT SAID IN SENTENCING KATE (THAI THE MASK Astounding Statements Made by Socialist Leader, "Sister" and "Comrade" of McKaig; She Was Chairman of the Resolution Resolu-tion Committee of the National Socialist Convention ; Read Those Resolutions. In sentencing to prison Kate O'Hare, "comrade" of Bay McKaig, Judge Wade said: In April I see they publish from Eugene Debs this statement: "As we have said, the bankers are for bullets for the fool patriots that enlist at pauper's wages to stop the bullets while the bankers clip coupons, cou-pons, boost food prices, increase dividends divi-dends and pilo up millions and billions bil-lions for themselves. "Say, Mr. Workiugman, suppose you have enough sense for once to be' as patriotic as the banker, but not a bit more so. When you see the bankers on the firing line with their guns in their hands 'ready to stop bullets as well as start them, then it is time enough for you to be seized with the patriotic itch and have yourself your-self shot into a crazy quilt for their profit and glory. ' ' Don ;t you "take a fit and rush to the front until you see them there. They own the country, and if they don't set the example'of fighting for it, why should you?" You will find here in this statement state-ment the note that rings out from the statement of the defendant here in court this afternoon, and which forms tho foundation of the entire gospel of hate which she and her associates are preaching preach-ing to the American peoplo, that this nation is helpless, prostrate, downtrodden by a few capitalists, and that the average man has not a chance on earth. That this war is a war of capitalism; that it was brought about, by capital, and in the interest of capital; that 100, or 200, or 300 millionaires million-aires and billionaires, if you please, in these United States dominate the souls and consciences of the other ninety-nine millions of American Amer-ican people. This will be more apparent as I proceed with her work. 1 take the May number, after war was declared, and T find in an article written by Kate Richards Rich-ards O'Hare the following: "Not only wiii the capitalists who forced the war be compelled to nay-the money price of it from their' bloodstained profits, but they will be forced to socialize industry, in order that the war may be carried car-ried on. Individualism run amuck can force a war, but only Socialism So-cialism can save the human race from suicide. KATE O'HARE BITTERLY. OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION. ' " We Socialists have bitterly opposed op-posed our nation being dragged into the world war, we oppose it still. We will resist conscription with every force at our command, but since the war has been forced upon us, we will uso it as a weapon wea-pon by which we may wrest tho means of life from tho hands of the capitalist class and restore them to the workers." This is the gospel she thinks she can help the nation with at the present time. But that is not all. The Department Depart-ment of Justice furnishes me tho following resolutions adopted at a meeting of tho extreme wing of tho Socialist party, to which the defendant defen-dant belongs, at their St. Louis convention, after war was declared. The secret service, in sending in their' report, says in a letter: "We have been unable to secure anything specific on her that would i be a violation of tho federal law in this district, bill have placed her in a class that we are morally certain whose hearts and souls are for Germany and against our count r- "Nothing would please this office I more than to hear that sho got life. " I turn to the resolution. This defendant de-fendant was chairman of tho coimnit-tee coimnit-tee that: brought in these resolutions. A newspaper of tho city of St. Louis, in describing this convention, states: "The Socialist party, in national convention at tho Planters hotel last (night, adopted resolutions proclaiming 'its 'unalterable opposition to the war just declared bv the government of tin' United States.' "The majority report of tho committee com-mittee on war and militarism containing contain-ing tin: resolutions received J-IO votes. An oven more radical report by Louis , iondin of New York received thirty- iih' votes. The conservative minoritv report of John Spargo of New York, declaring the Socialists should support the war, received only five votes. "The vote was taken after hours of spi h-maklng. Thomas Williams of , ( 'a Ii fornin was hissed when he said lie was an American, charged tho delegates dele-gates wilh being pro-tierman, and declared de-clared they did not represent the true sentiments of American Socialists. "Mr-. Kate Richards O'Hare of si. Louis defied the government and the I Civil authorities. She declared that Socialists would not tin molested in St. Louifl for what' they said because I lie city was against war and the an tlmrities were afraid to molest thettl." WHAT SOCIALISTS SAID OP OUit WAR. Fine stuff for the bovs and girls ol' the United States to be reading at this hour! Hut 1 do not take what is said in the papers as always Signifying judicial fairness. fair-ness. I (urn to the resolutions reported re-ported by the defendant in that con vent ion. 1 find therein: 2. Tho Socialist party of tho United States is nnaltera lily opposed op-posed to the system of exploitation and elans rule which is upheld and strengthened by military power 1 and sham national patriotism. Wo, therefore, call upon the workers of all countries to roluae support to their government! in thetr wars. The wars of tho contending groups of enpilalbitH are not the concern of tho workers. Tho only struggle ' whleli would Justify the workers of inflated egotists down there at St. Louis, while his voice is still ringing in the ears of the American Ameri-can people, give him the lie, and says it is cant and hypocrisy when he says it! That is the way the defendant wants to support the government! But further: "Our entrance into the European Euro-pean conflict at this time will serve only to multiply the horrors of war, to increase the toll 6f death and destruction and to prolong pro-long the fiendish slaughter. It will bring death, suffering and destruction de-struction to the people of the United States, and particularly to the working class. It will give tho powers of reaction in this country the pretext for an attempt to throttle our rights and to crush our democratic institutions, and to fasten upon this country a permanent perma-nent militarism." , Looking into the face of the presi-1 dent of the United States aud nearlv ! every man iu the congress of tho I United states, and, the senate of the United States, the he is given to them as to their purpose. "The working class of the United States has no quarrel with the working work-ing class of Germany, or of anvother country. The people' of tho United States have no quarrel with the peoplo of Germany or of any other countrv. The American people did not want and do not want this war. Thev have not been consulted about the war and have had no part in declaring war. Thev have been plunged into this war by the trickery and treachery of the ruling rul-ing class of the countrv through its representatives in the national admin-istration admin-istration and national congress its demagogic agitators, its subsidized press and other servile instruments of public expression. ' ' in taking up arms is the great struggle of the working class of the world to free itself from economic eco-nomic exploitation and political oppression. As agaiust the fakse doctrine of national patriotism we uphold the ideal of international working-class solidarity. In support sup-port of capitalism we will not willingly wil-lingly give a single life or a single sin-gle dollar. In support of the struggle of the workers for freedom free-dom we pledge our all." This was after war had been declared, when the nation was trying try-ing to rally the men .from the farms, for the support df the gov- eminent. But that is not all. T find further: "The forces of capitalism which have led to the war in Europe are even more hideously transparent in the war recently provokod by the ruling class of this country. "When Belgium was invaded, the government enjoined upon the people of this country the duty of remaining ueutral, thus clearly demonstrating that the 'dictates of humanity' and tho fate of small nations and of democratic institutions institu-tions were matters that did not concern it, but when our enormous enor-mous war traffic was seriously threatened, our government calls upon us to rally to tho 'defense of democracy aud civilisation.' "Our entrance into the European Euro-pean war was instigated by the predatory capitalists in the United states who boast of the enormous profit of $7,000,000,000 from tho exploitation of American foodstuffs and other necessaries. They aro also deeply interested in the continuance con-tinuance of the war and the success suc-cess of the allied arms through their huge loans to tho governments govern-ments of the allied powers and through their commercial ties. It is the same interests which strive for imperialistic domination oi tho western hemisphere." Splendid support, for the guv-., eminent! Splendid seed to plant in the minds and hearts of the people in their distress that this nation is simply waging a war at the behest of a few capitalists! forcing upon this nation ipjttl its will. 1 "In harmony with these patAfl pies, the Socialist party emplutK ly rejects the proposal" this T the defendant speaking "tilt ii I time of war the workers slrailij suspend their struggle for 1W5 conditions. On the contrary, t acute situation created by calls for an even more Tigm .prosecution of the class strug and we recommend to the raters rat-ers and pledge ourselves to following course of action:" 1 assume that the defendui 5 net a traitor to he Socialists. O'Hare: May I makes jr.,-1 ; iv.r t-i venr honor? ! e tour: : No. no; I tort Here is the recommend "I. Continuous active andjj lie opposition to the war, ,tMJ demonstrations, mass petitions nil other means within our poW ":2. Unyielding opposition tot-proposed tot-proposed legislation for nnW or industrial conscription a such conscription be fr'? the people, we pledge parson- continuous efforts for the Jj of such laws and to the snpf of all mass movements in oppos-tiou oppos-tiou to conscription. :;. Vigorous resistance to U aetionary measures, such as e sorship of press and striction of the rights of " speech, assemblage and orgu tiou. or compulsory arbitrtioB limitation of the right to strl "4. Consistent proPPT aE.iinst military training no . taristic teaching in the P schools." "1. Wc recommend till convention instruct our ow representatives in congress, f stato legislatures, and ffl T bodies, to vote against HIP posed appropriations or 10M5-T military, naval and other purposes." .. i and other war purpo were raising all araiv then. im proivM-.' i. instruct their Ifjj . ,-s ps ,v::t to vote a n :, ,!,.!Sar for their support. :'. We recommend that volition ciMntd the national "" mtr.-tt.v to o vl cud and ngg (Continued on roUogrnTjg, OUR WAR A CRIME AGAINST OUR PEOPLE. "We brand the declaration of war by our government as a crime against tho people of the United States and against tho nations of the world. "In all modern history there has been no war more unjustifia-b unjustifia-b o than the war iu which we arc about to engage. "No greater dishonor has over been forced upon a peoplo than that, which the capitalist class i" DECLARED OUR WAR NOT JUSTIFIED. But further, as to the loyalty and patriotism of this defendant "Tho war of tho United States against Germany cannot bo justified justi-fied oven on tho pica that it is a war in defense of Amorican rights or American 'honor.' Ruthless as tho unrestricted siibmarino war policy of tho Gorman government was and is, it is not an invasion of tho rights of tho American peoplo as such, but only an Interference with tho opportunity of certain groups of American capitalists to coin cold profits out Of tho blond and suffering of our fellow tunu in the warring countries of Europe, "It Is not a war against, the militarist mil-itarist regime of the central pov-ors. pov-ors. Militarism can never he abol isiird by militarism. "It Is cant and hypocrisy to say that tho war is' not directed against the German people, but against tho imperial government, of Germany. If wo send an armed, force to the battlefields Of Europe, its cannon will mow down tho masses of tho German peoplo and not tho imperial German government. gov-ernment. ' ' itui a few days bofora the pros. blent of the Pulled BtftteS, In one of the most, dramatic, hours the world oyer saw. fn the house of representatives at Washiuoton inn! said to i he worldi Tins counJ I ry is not I age u a t against i li,. German people i and this bunch WHAT THE COURT SAIB i llElTEB KATE OWl the verdict thus rendered by the great majority of the people of this nation without becoming rebels, outlaws, and, in view of the present pres-ent stress of the nation, traitors. A nation divided against itself cannot can-not Rtaud. It must fall. And if this nation falls, in its ruins will lie, blasted forever, the most glorious glori-ous hopes that ever brought joy to the hearts of men. It is time that we should cdme to a definite understanding. This nation is trying try-ing to preserve the rights aud the liberties of men; not the (rights aiul liberties of the rich and powerful, but the rights and the liberties of the common people. Wc are trying try-ing to save from destruction t he sacred rights of humanity for which our forefathers fought and died. And in this dark hour we arc proud that we have as our commander-in-chief a man who, by the common consent con-sent of mankind, except our enemies, is the most dominant champion cf human hu-man rights in the world. And the American people will not permit him to be insulted by the false, vicious and contemptible charge that he is the tool of graft or greed, or that he permitted this war to be brought upon us by the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the bankers, the capitalistic class, the munition makers, or the profiteers of the nation. Those whose ideas and feelings as to this war are opposed to the policy of the government the small but egotistical egotis-tical minority who do not agree with the great mass of the American people in their dcterzninutio-. to win the war this minority must yield to the earnest, eloquent appeal of the president for unity of action and thought and purpose pur-pose they must submit or they will be crushed by the majestic power of the nation, which will not tolerate traitors, no matter under what name they may try to hide their treason. American sons are not going to allow their mothers to be likened unto brood sows, and American fathers and mothers are not going to submit to having their sons as- signed to no more glorious destiny than that of fertilTzer for French soil. The American people are not going to stand idly by and see these boys that are marching away to the front, shot in the back by cowards and traitors. This nation is willing to fight the enemy in - front she is willing to fight the assassins of the air, the pirates of the sea, the masters of the most brutal and diabolical i savagery . which the world ever saw- this na-' na-' tion is willing to fight all this, but she will not consent to be stabbed in the back, and would-be assassins might as well realize that they must sheath their knives or submit to extermination. (Continued from Prccedinr; Tage, propaganda nmonc women, Because they, as housewives and as mothers, j are now particularly ready to accept I our message. "3, We recommend that the con-' con-' veation iustruct the national executive I committee to initiate an organized ; movement of Socialists, organized workers, and other anti-war forces for concerted action along the lines of our program. (Signed) "KATE RICHARDS O 'HARE, ' ' Chairman, "VICTOR L. BERGER, . "JOB HARH1MAN, "MORRIS HI LLQU1T, "DAN HOGAN, "FRANK M1DNEY, "PATRICK QUINBAN, "0. E. RUTHENBERG, "MANARD SHIPLEY, "GEORGE SPJESS, JR., "ALGERNON LEE, Secretary." ' ' THE NEUTRALITY OF HELL. ' ' That is the way the defendant refers to the neutrality of the United StattBs, her country "neutrality of hell!' Again she has Columbia helpless, Columbia speaking of the blood-stained gold of any nation as acceptable, and America, helpless, bound, shackled, says: "In the name of God, woman, have you no mercy? Why press the white-hot white-hot brand of' mv own soul's condemnation condemna-tion into my heart? Am 1 not human like yourself? Have I not eyes to see and ears to hear and reason that cannot can-not be smothered? Have I uot a soul that sees and -feels and knows the cursed Heedlessness of the sufferings of mankind? Why add your scorn to mv shame, humiliation and self-contempt? The golden chains of international interna-tional finances and business make me a galley slave. 1 am helplessl" Mavbc the people of this country coun-try want that gospel preached to them. Maybe it is good stuff for the people of this country to get that sort of thing now in this hour of our nation's peril, but I don t think so. , Well, I will tell you, if that is ,tlie sort of stuff the Socialist party stands for, if its gospel is the gospel gos-pel of hate and contempt of religion re-ligion and charity, it has not any place on the American soil either in times of war or times of peace. The worst poison you can instill in the hearts of men is a conscientious feeling that they are being deprived de-prived of their just earnings or their just deserts bvseme invisible power, and the whole theory of the Socialists and that typo of people at the present hour is that capitalism capital-ism is the sole instrument that brought about, this war, and, as in the statement of Debs in the paper of which she is part editor, the bankeris pictured as exempt from war. I would not go so fully into t.heso . things at this time, if it were not for the remarkable presentation by the defendant of her cause. When 1 say that she believes these things I am speaking it earnestly. I do not think she is a hypocrite in regard re-gard to her belief as to this capitalistic cap-italistic domination. But the trouble trou-ble about it. is that there is no foundation for it. It is an aberration. aber-ration. I realize that wo need reformers re-formers in this country; I realize that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"; I realize that the people must be led to give more attention to, the affairs of their government in the state and the nation. I know there is room for reformers of the ri"ht type. But there is no room in this country coun-try for the reformer who cannot see in the whole range of vision iu this country one single thing to .approve, but everything to condemn. con-demn. I listened in the trial of this case to the testimony of the witnesses for the defendant. Not one word did they say that at any stage of her speech she said anything any-thing about this good old United States; that she ever expressed pride in its power, in its justice, or its right; that she ever paid a tribute to the American flag. The OHly reference she made to a consent con-sent to service in the army was when she said, "If they wanted to go to war let them go, and God bless them"; but she said herself here upon the witness- stand that she ended that statement, leaving it as a question as to whother or not the fertilization of the French soil by their carcasses would not be the best use they could be put to. THE MINDS KATE O'HARE TRIED TO POISON. When she came up from the south she passed through the greatest empire em-pire God ever made, the richest empire em-pire iu resources, the best adapted to human life Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota soil and climate, coal and iron, and water, aud everything that men can want. Who owns this empire? Did you ever stop to think about that? Who owns it? This government owned it once this "rich man's government," govern-ment," "dominated and shackled by the capitalists." One time the government gov-ernment owned all this. Who owns it now? The men, or the sons of men, or the grandsons of men, to a very large extent, who came across the ocean in emigrant ships, or came out here fr,om the eastern coast in prairie schooners. schoon-ers. They own it. They were strangers strang-ers iu a strange, land, coming here within half a century, most of them, without money and without friends. -Aud yet today I will guarantee that at Mrs. Q 'Hare's meeting at Bowman, seventy-five per cent of that audience rode to that meeting in automobiles. How did they ffit them? Why, this governmtit, thM is scorned and spit upon, handed them out to whom; the people. What people? The bankers bank-ers aud capitalists? No; just to the common herd, the common people. It didn't ask what laud or what country they came from, either, or what their religion was or their politics. It gave them a chance to come out here aud go on homesteads, or buy land . for $1.25 an acre, and aided them in every way to establish homes, and own their land children of ancestors who for a thousand years back in the old country sat there dreaming of a possible time when they might own ten feet square of soil, and never realized their dream. Did she see these things when she came up here? No. Did she see the homes out here, reasonably comfortable for a new country? No. Did she see those schoolhouses every few miles, where eery child, no matter how poor, has an entrance? No. Did she see the churches that are reared in sacrifice sacri-fice in all these communities; with their spires poiuting up, mute emblems of hope? No. Did she see the universities uni-versities and agricultural colleges, to which every child can go, regardless of nationality, or creed, or wealth? No. She didn't talk about those things. She saw only injustice and wrougf and she brought to those people the message of their domination by unseen powers, and she got their applause, and she fortified for-tified them with a continuation of this gospel of hate by having them furnished fur-nished with copies of the Social Revolution Revo-lution which was given away as a subscription sub-scription with each ticket to the lecture. lec-ture. This is a grave matter. I say we need reformers in this country. We need men to go out and preach the gospel of the. glory and power of these United States, and the right of every man to his share in the glory and power and justice of the United States; and we need reformers to go out and point out to them where they can benefit themselves by having a law enacted here and there, but we have no room for reformers that cannot go out and preach reform based upon the Constitution Constitu-tion of the United States. We have nd room for reformers who, in order to exploit their reforms, re-forms, must first drive out of the hearts of men and women every sentiment of pride and exaltation, and make them feel like abject slaves. We have not any room for that sort of reformers. It is time that men and women should be giving careful consideration to these things. This is a new country coun-try just in the formative period, and the children in these schools today are the citizens who are going go-ing to run this country- in a very few years now, aud it is important that they get the right viewpoint of life. THE DANGER TO OUR NATION. Some Socialist may say it is easy for these judges to talk about things they do not know anything about. I know something "about it. I know something about the opportunities of the average fellow fel-low in this country. I came to the northern part of Iowa when I was a boy, poor, without a dollar, from my okl home in Vermont. I never got beyond the white school-house school-house on the corner of the farm until -I was 21 years of age. It was in pioneer times, when people lived poor and worked hard, and my first work on the farm was for $10 a month. I refer to that simply because I want to have you understand that I know what I- am talking about when I say that carrying the message of despair de-spair to the people of this great empire of opportunity here is wrong is indefensible. These are times that try men's souls we must have patience and courage and loyalty and faith and confidence and patriotism. And what is patriotism? The highest form of patriotism is willing submission sub-mission to lawfully constituted authority. au-thority. And where does lawful authority exist in this country? In the people of this nation. But as men differ as to policies, the majority must control; the minority must' yield to the voice of the majority. ma-jority. This is the only way in -which a republic may exist and endure. en-dure. 'And how do the people express ex-press themselves in this country? Through their agents selected 'to speak for them, the membeus of congress and the members of the senate and the president of the United States. These servants of the people have spokeu congress and the senate almost unanimously upon this war. No body of men and no body of women can resist |