The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-11
EMMGGOLDMAN ROOSEVELT
TELLS SUNRISERS HE'S 4 POOR
SPECIALIST IN MOTHERHOOD.

thinks President Might Better Concern
HimseIf With Food AdulteFatiOn
Women Beautiful without Mother
hOOd-F1atO and 81. Paul - Moderns.
Emma Goldman gave her opinion last
night before the Sunrise Club on President
Roosevelt The announcement Of a con-
junction Of what the chairman called two
such stenuous personalities brought
crowd OF race elevators which packed
the banquet room Of the Cafe Boulevard.
President Roosevelt and Motherhood
was Miss Goldman's subject.
This is time Of specialties. she said.
The President Of the United States has
many specialties. He's q rough rider a
bear hunter. politician. and he can shoot,
especially when other people turn their
backs, but he is a poor mRu to set up as a
specialist in motherhood. II any ordinary
man on the streets had uttered such non
sense as he has spoken recently. it would
attract no attention. His is an Illogical
position. criminal position. but it is the
opinion OF the world to-day. No matter
how big. strong intelligent and fine a woman
is, she must be sanctihed by marriage
before she is allowed motherhood. And
50 a great many women who have refused
TO bow have been denied the privilege.
President Roosevelt says that the State
depends on the family All rulers have
said that. They want more children more
cannon food, more factory food
An engineer or an artist must be trained
for his profession. The world demands IL.
But people are expected to enter marriage
and become good parents without a word
or line Of preliminary training, Their
moral attitude ia wrong as regards the
child. They want to make him a part Of
themselves. They teach him their Old
outwoTn ideas. They are simply criminal
last ypar 500 90 infants died Of i'm
proper and adulterated infant food, Now.
II President Roosevelt would concern him
self with hygiene, with guarding those al
ready here. there would be no need Of talk
ing race suicide and clamoTing for more
And il might be il mothers bred children
with view 10 their own enlightened de-
sires not TO the needs Of the state Roose-
welt would have u few less voters. but a
be tier few.
The idea that having a child creates q
beautiful character in a woman is false.
Many women here who have never had a
child are as noble and beautiful within as
any mother could be.
The woman who has freed herself from
all the old fables and dreams Of her grand
mother-she is the one to say if she'll have
a child. In the old idea Of motherhood-the
idea Of the family-there is no room for
the love Of man and woman. Theodore
Roosevelt, In his ideas on divorce, Is stand
ing for system WHOM means leRalized
prostitution.
The time has come for the women OF the
liberia element to oppose the nosiness Of
Theodore Roosevelt
The Sunrisers in the subsequent dis
cussion made it plain that the President
Is unpopular with those who face the dawn.
They said that people who would swallow
his ideas deserved TO be shot In the Philip
pines and TO starve In the streets Of New
York. He was called "a beast who goes
about Boosting Of sexual strenuosity.-
They SAID that Napoleon admired a
woman who had many children simply
becau.c he needed children in his business
and they add d that the ruling captalistic
class of which Mr.. Roosevelt Is such an
able and active spokesman had the same
need Theodore Schraeder included Plato
and St Paul in his denunciation Of modern
ideas on marriage.
Mrs Mabel Mccoy Irwin proved 20 be
the only friend the President has among
the Sunrisers. She said she thought that
he was aiming his remarks not at the com
mon people but at the selfish upper
class