In the audience on that occasion was the man who tried to kill the President, and his associates now recall that he was one of the most enthusiastic in his applause of the utterances of Miss Goldman. The hall in which the lecture was delivered is at 170 Superior street, the same hall in which the Anarchists now meet in this city. In the course of her address of May 6, Miss Goldman first outlined the principles of anarchy and detailed the methods whereby she hoped to accomplish the ends of anarchy. Her talk was full of forceful passages, and some cases more notable for their strength than for their elegance. Under the galling yoke of government, ecclesiasticism, and a bond of custom and prejudice, it is impossible for the individual to work out his own career as he could wish.
Anarchism aims at a new and complete freedom.
It strives to bring about the freedom which is not only the freedom from within but a freedom from without, which will prevent any man from having a desireto interfere in any way with the liberty of his neighbor. This is not the freedom we are striving for. We merely desire complete individual liberty, and this can never be obtained as long as there is an existing government. We do not favor the socialistic idea of converting men and women into mere producing machines under the eye of a paternal govenment. We go to the opposite extreme and demand the fullest and most complete liberty for each and every person to work out his own salvation upon any line that he pleases.