The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-10
SKETCH OF EMMA GOLDMAN
She Came to America From Russia
When a Girl

Emma Goldman came to this country
seventeen years ago, from a little town
in Russia, says the New York Tribune,
where her father was a tailor She went
TO Rochester, N. Y and was married
to man named Gruene baum. 1t was
not long before she met Louis Bern
stein, anarchist, who brought her
to this city. She dropped her hus band 5
name, and with it the few ideas Of right
and wrong that she had. She became
an advocate of anarchy in its most
bloody and desperate forms.
She joined the anarchist GROUP. known
as the Pioneers of Liberty which used
to meet in the Essex market She was
expelled after a fiery speech adyoca ting
the free and unlimited use Of dynamite,
because the members feared she would
get them into trouble. Soon after she
met Most and Joined the International
Arbeiter association, of which he was
the leader. Most let her sign articles
which appeared from time to time IN
his weekly publicatio Die F'rieheit- a
personal quarrel with Most caused her
to horsewhip him in 1892 when he was
Iecturing in Odd Fellows hall
She then took up with Berkmann and
became one Of the most popular mem
bers of the autonomist group, which
held meetings in various resorts in
Fifth street. Shortly after this Berk-
mann shot Henry @. Frick and was ar
rested. The Goldman woman started
on lecture tour to raise funds for his
defense. She was arrested in Baltimore
and her release went to P1LtSDurg
to see Berknann-
She got into serious trouble for the
first time when she made an incendiary
address at a meeting of the unemployed
at Union square on August q, 1898. Her
trial began on October and ended ten
days later when she was sentenced to
a year on Blackwells island. A short
hand report Of her speech was taken by
the police and introduced at the trial
In part it was as follows:
You want bread, but who will give
it to YOU? No one will give lit to you.
If you want it you must take it. If
you do not get it on your own demand
take it by force. Go out into the social
revolution. Prepare yourselves. The
capitalists have prepared themselves
with the police, who are armed with
pistols and clubs. You can defend
yourselves with sticks and stones, if at
tackled. I tell you gain. organize and
go and demand what you want, and, II
it is not given, then take it by force. If
you take bread alone it will not help
you much. Take everything March to
the palaces of the capitalists and de-
mand your rights, and if they are not
given to you, take them by force. You
will be attacked by the militia and the
police. You must be prepared to de-
fend yourselves with sticks and stones
Either you Will have to do what 7 tell
you or YOU can go home quietly, lay
yourselves down and die Of hunger. 1t
is true YOU are not prepared. while we
know that the police are. with wea pons,
but we also know where the weapons
are to be obtained. We are living-in
time when we must act. Now that you
know what you have to do, prepare
yourselves May anarchy livei"
1t was a typical Goldman speech Her
speeches today are on the same order She
always advises violence no matter what
the evil. She seems TO have great power
over her ignorant audiences and soon has
everything about her boiling over. 1t is
only excitement however and never be
fore has she persua ded any one to de-
liberate act Of violence if, indeed, she did
so this time
Emra Goldman is now about IS years
old When she came to America girl.
she was rather pretty. She had q wealth
OF dark hair and flashing eyes. Her fig
ure was good even when poorly dressed
The life She has. been leading however.
has blotred ont all of her youthful charms
her eyes stflI CLEAN, but it is the unnat-
ura1 CLEAN put there by liquor Her
face and figlre are bloated from the same
cause. She lives on the cheap fame which
has come TO her from anarchistic
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