Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-09-16
Weekly Herald. Vol. XVII. N. 1ss.


You used to know Emma Goldman
rather intimately. did you not?" asked
the reporter.
Don't talk to me any more about
that woman. She's crazy. She's
ne good. l have not spoken to her
for nearly ten years. We could not
get along together"
Emma Goldman came to this coun-
| try seventeen years ago from a lit
tie town in Russia, where her faith
er was tailor She went to Roch
| ester, N. Y, and was married to a
man named Gruenebaum. 1t was not
long before she met Louis Bernstein,
an anarchist who brought her to this
city. She dropped her husbands
name. and with 1t the few ideas OF
right and wrong which she had. She
became an advocate of anarchy In
its most bloody and desperate forms.
Sne joined the anarchist group
known as the Pioneers of Liberty. ac-
customed to meet in the Essex market.
She was expelled after fiery speech
advocating the free and unlimited use
of dynamite, because the members
feared she would get them into trou-
BILE. Soon after she met Most and
Joined the International Arbeiter as
sociatlon, of which he was the leader.
Most let her sign articles which ap-
peared from time to time In his pub
lication, Die Frieheit. A personal
quarrel with Most caused her to horse
whip him in 1892 when she was lee
turing in Odd Fellows hall.
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and became one of the most popular
members of the autonomist group.
which held meeting in various resorts
in Fifth street. Shortly after this
Berkmann shot Henry G. Frick and
was arrested. The Goldman woman
started on lecture tour to raise funds
for his defense. She was arrested
in Baltimore, and on her relase went
to Pittsburg to see Berkmann.
She got into serious trouble for the
first time when she made an incen-
diary address at meeting of the un-
employed at Union Square on Aug
ust 81, 1898. Her trial begano nm
October 3 and ended ten days later.
when she was sentenced to year on
Blackwell's Island. A shorthand re-
port of her speech was taken by the
police and introduced at the trial. In
part is was as follows:
"You want bread. but who will give
it to you? If you want 1t you must
take 1t. If you do not get 1t on your
own demand. take it by force. Go
out into the social revolution Pre-
pare yourselves. The capitalists
have prepared themselves with the
police who are armed with pistols and
clubs. You can defend yourselves
with sticks and stones II attacked.
| tell you again. organize and go and
demand what you want. and If it is
not given then take It by force. If
you take bread alone 1t will not help
you much. Take everything. March
to the palaces of the capitalists and
demand your rights. and II they are
not given to you, take them by force.
You will be attacked by the militia
and the police. You must be pre-
pared to defend yourselves with sticks
and stones. Either you will have to
do what 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 po-
lice are. with weapons, but we also
know where the weapons are to be OBJ
tanned. We are living In time when
we must act. Now that you know
what you have to do. prepare your
selves. May anarchy live!"
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 persuaded anyone to
| deliberate act OF violence. II. indeed.
she did so this time.
Emma Goldman Is now about 35
years old. When she came to Amer
lea, girl, she was rather pretty.
She had wealth of dark hair and
flashing eyes. Her figure was good.
even when poorly dressed. The life
she has been leading, however. has
blotted out all her youthful charms.
Her eyes stll gleam. but 1t is the un-
natural CLEAN put there by liquor.
Her .ace and figure are bloated from
the same cause. She lives on the
cheap fame that has comet her from
her anarchistic speeches.