The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-14

on August 81, 1888, during the bread riot.
She was convicted of melting to riot
! The part Of her speech which led 10 her
conviction was as follows:
/ You want bread. No one viii give it
to you If you DO not get it on your
own demand, take It by force. Prepare
yourselves. The capitalists have pre-
! pared themselves with the police, who
are armed with pistols and clubs. You
can defend yourself with sticks and
/ stones # attacked. II you take bread
/ alone it VIII not help you much. Take
everything.
! March to the palaces Of the capitalists
| and demand your rights. and if they are
not given TO you. take them By force.
You viii be attacked by the militia
/ and the police. You must be prepared
TO defend yourselves
The law VII mot I'll your empty
stoInachs. The laws were made for the
rich and not for the poor.
1t was her lover. Henry Berkman, who
shot Henry G. Frck, of the Carnegie
mills After her fashion of marriage she
had been his wife and publicly gloried in
Berman's act. which she inspired The
woman's strange mower has made her
the high prestess OF the most rabid and
fanatical Of the anarchists.
on the East Side she is known as the
Little Firebrand." Her views are ex-
IRENE and revolutionary even for the
average run of anarchists. Beside her
Herr Most is almost conservative. Be
tween Emma Goldman and Most there
has been long feud. It is said that at
one time they were married. She at
tempted 10 cowhide him at an anarchist
meeting on the East Side upon one oc-
casion.
Emma Goldman is thirty three years
old. short, spudgy Of figure, hard fea-
tured. and frowsy in appearance. Her
voice is shriu and unpleasant. der
hair is light brown and her ewes blush
gray. Her chin shows determination-
She rs remarkably fluent talker, and
never fails to excite her anarchist hear
ers to a high pitch. She speaks Russian.
German, English and French. and writes
Spanish and Italian. She was born in
Russia, but educated in Germany She
was married when she was seventeen,
and according to report has had several
husbands since. She married q tailor in
this city several years ago. but quit
him. She is said TO have lived with
Charles Zimmerman, a New York an
archist, who was sent to prison for six
months for inciting riot
When she is here the Goldman woman
makes her home or the East side. She
spends much of her time in back rooms
OF saloons where anarchists gather. a
crowd of admirers constantly surrounds
her She hates women, and her life mas
been passed mostly among men. Her
features are almost masculine. She for
ner}y worked in a sweat-shop and is said
to have been trained nurse Of late
her time has been principally spent IN
Cleveland. ST. Louis and Chicago, at
an Of which places are groups of anarch-
lists. Her parents live near Rochester
They are not anarchists, but sympathize
with her work.
Emma Goldman's career since her re
turn from Europe in December last has
been tumuItuous. Anarchists from vari-
Gus countries had arranged to hold en-
International anarchist congress at Paris
but the Partisan authorities discovered
their secret meeung-place and compelled
them TO disband Emma told Of this iR
forcible language at a meeting in Everett
Hail. ia East Fourth street at which
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Thompson told her before she spoke
that if her remarks We're incendiary he
would turn out the Hehts Several times
during tho evening there was great dan
ger of the Hehts being turned out, as
the woman's language was violent to an
extreme. She openly praised the assas-
sination of King Humbert. and wished
that there were more such heroes as
Bresci.
During January the woman spoke twice
at a meeting place in Third avenue near
Eighty-third street Her last appearance
was on March s. when she spoke at the
Manhattan Liberal Club ct No. 90 East
Fifteenth street. She justified free love
and so Disguised many Of her audience
that she was hissed. Tn April she went
on a lecturing tour through the West.