The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-17
SHE'S AN ANARCHIST
THAT'S WHAT SOME GOOD PEOPLE
WILL CALL HErTY GREEN.
AZ Auy Rate she IL n Rank Socialist
and Takes the strikers Part
Against the Magnates.

New York Press
She sometimes appears to be motherly
soul, this Mrs. Hetty Green She has soft
spots In her heart, even if she is the richest
woman in America. She has tendency to
distrust people on first acquaintance, but
when one gets to know her she is a CHEEKY
creature, and her worn face brightens up.
her eyes glisten and she talks viyaciously.
She has a weakness for children, and has
been known to try with success, to make
friends of them. The people who know her
well, and it is significant that great many
poor people know her well, will tell you
that Hetty Green is eccentric and whim-
steal, but that, after all. they like her.
She is interesting. Even a person who did
not know who she would bestow Sec
ond glance upon this unfashionably clad
and often shabby woman if she passed by
in a crowd.
1.-The poor have no chance in this country
No wonder Anarchists and Socialists are SO
numerous The longer we live the more dis
contented we all get, and no wonder, too.
Some blame the rich, but all the rich are
not to blame"
Thus spoke Mrs. Green when the Brooklyn
strike was at its height. 1t was a general
t nnd bs sae dred from the par
ticulars Of the case to the generalities IT
involved. and Mrs. Green was more radical
but the law must be upheld remarked
one. -. :. o., r
peated the woman OF millions scornfully.
''Then why don't they begin at the right
ena5 mnc nfs magn no There is Hunt
fngton. He and his railroads and the men
about him have been grnd nars w and aef ul
ing the authorities. But the militia are
never. sent against him, When some poor ssl.
don fs run, how quickly they send the troops.
I will say. though, that the boys IN the
militia are not Wt to 9he srkers gut whas
can they do? They must obey orders 49,
How would you remedy these thingsr.
DEATH ON RAILROADS.
SHOW? Make these railroad magnates
obey the law or put them in prison. Let the
poor man break the law and see how soon
he gets into jail. Now, just take the State
of California. 1t is one of the richest and
finest States in the country. Yet the people
are SO ground down and oppressed by the
railroads that thousands of fathers of fami-
Mes are walking the streets homeless. The
great city of San Francisco is all but par
aiyzed industrialiy and the railroad kings
60 to Europe in their. yachts. Oh. why
and tell the people the truth. me me people
must toll and sweat to I'll the ricn cL mans
Golfers. Wen, there VIII DC q recAonins
Mrs. Green walked up and down in her
excitement. eyes
looked twenty years younger than she is.
Then she laughed. but what is the use
OF getting excitedT'
1t is not a very. easy matter to report
Hetty Green's words. She is a very inter
esting talker and very rapid one. She
never afraid to say what she thinks. She
thinks Huntington and the Union Pacihc
people generally are pretty bad .ot. she
Is fighting them now and proposes to make
trouble for them even If she has to appeal
10 Congress. She is very popular In San
broken out into deafening cheers at the
mention of her name And she Is the rich-
asked asi % hoW she Supposed present social ten
denotes would work themselves out.
~ think" she said. shat our railroad
sned with. If you doubt It, consider the
changes that have come with the develop
development we had no multi-millionaires.
It Is true. but we had no grinding poverty.
People worksd hard for a.; living win but then
terrible strikes. We did not have brake
men and railroad hands living on IS q week.
luxury lux 11 and con Controlling politics. We did
not have cities at the mercy Of corpora
tons Now is this the fault. of the locomo-,
tives and the cars? Are railroads q curse
GRINDING MONOPOLIES
''Of course, not. But the railroads have
not used their power for the public good.
The magnates have got control Of the rail-
roads and are using them means to ex-
tort money. Now I would change all that
IL could I am sure that IL somebody
does not change 1t times will get harder
and harder. The people CANNOT long go on
shaving for money to give the railroads So
At will get harder and harder for men to
make a living Their standard Of life must
be lowered just as the standard of life for
the working classes has been lowered by
the policy of the railroads.
Mrs Green was very earnest in her ut
saa er 70 aa
pause when she had done.
Then you think we are going to the
I'VE will be going there until the decent
honest people get their. eyes opened she
opened. let me tell you. After all. ag i,ss
with Lincoln. You know he said: You car
fool all the people some of the time and
mink the railroads may have occasion K
ought to say. too. that there are pe y .
It's the magnatss and the monopoiists VIII
Gals say they are looking out for the inter
ests of the stockholders who want divi
%ay they are aen maae The s soehh N sn
never have a thing to say about thes
Western reads s,n Why you win see rairoa
road magnates own yachts and race horses
And when the stockholders try to do any
INNS tiiC iiittSiotSS 30 10 the courts ant
get receivers appointed It's q sWindl
all the way through
And Mrs. Green brought her umbrell
tip down on the floor to emphasize it.
Mrs Green some one remarked a.;
you We're man, youd make a popular pol
ftician." -
IF / were a man." said Mrs. Green
laughing. people might believe me- Ri,
because I'm a woman they say I'm crazy
Then the wealthiest woman in Americ
arose. put on her bonnet, took up her O,
cloth bag and bidding every one good da,
n oAxf-ox
Trotwood, whose donkey boys are raiIwa
magnates.
LOndOn's Ripper Scare.