The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-13
EMMA eoLDMAN,s ATTlTuDE.

The New York Sun prints an interview with Emma
Goldman obtained by of its reporters last February,
IN which she tells the story life When it is known
belongs that hotbed OF anarchy Russia
and that enthusiasm the unrgheous is only
exceeded by intense love she bears country,
strength Of her opinions and her unremng efforts to pro-
mote the anarchists may be realized to fuller
extent her interview with the Sun representative
last February Miss Goldman stated that she is leader
of party for she discovered that the safest and
wsest way to keep herself free In this connection
she said: q member Of no group. stand outside.
take no pay. accept no favors. What do do indi
vidualy the cause There no party back
me- there is nc party to say You must this and
you must not do that You paid. You it to
You bow the majority bow nothing except
my idea Of right Individual freedom and responsibility
there is the basis for true anarchy"
In this statement the secret of the woman's great
power may be found Because she accepts nothing and
devoes herself to their cause the anarchists look upon
her with a feeling akin She apart from
them and yet with them and therefore douby dan
gerous Miss Goldman declares that she has never pro
pagated violence and does not a single truly
anarchist leader who ever did advocate it In this con
nection she says:
Where violence comes with anarchy it is result Of the
conditions of anarchy. There is ignorance cruelty
starvation poverty suffering and some victim grows tired
Of waiting He believes a decisive blow viii call public
attention to the wrongs of his country may
the remedy He and perhaps one two intimate friends
relatives, make plan. They do not have orders
They do not consult other anarchists If a came
TO me end told me he planning assassination,
would think him utter fool and refuse to pay any
attention TO him. The who has such plan if he
is in and honest knows secret safe when told
He does the deed himself; the HIMSELF pays the
penalty himself honor him for the spirit that prompts
him. It is small thing for a be willing to lay
down his life for the Of humanity The act is noble
but it is mistaken
These the rabd sentiments Of anarchist Of the
most confirmed type and. rabd they they do not
convey the true nature Of the desperate cuhroat gang
Miss Goldman would deude public believing that
the anarchists act individually instead of collectively But
every outrage committed by them shown them TO be
band Of murderers united in their to destroy the
heads Of nations Miss Goldman declares that violence
with anarchy the result OF ignorance ana sun
ering, but those familiar win the policies of the gang
know that it is rather the result secret meetings con
Vened in different OF the globe without serious
molestaon and of deeplyhatched plots menacing the
lives Of the rulers Of kingdoms and the chief executives OF
republics. Bresci King Humberts assassin was chosen
by lot TO commit the crime and there doubt that the
assassin OF President Mckinley Of several con
spirators The anarchists in league with one another
and who knows. Emma Goldman herself may have had an
Indirect knowledge of the cowardly deed which has shock
ed and enraged this and every other country within the
bounds Of civilization. At any rate we know thar the We
man was the indirect the blow which has fallen
heavily upon