The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-26
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JEWS, VIEWS AND GOSSIP OF
NEW YORK..
By Glenn Guernsey.


NEW YORK, Sept 26.-Any bucolic
resident of the insignificant portion of
the United States lying west of the
Hudson and north Of Harlem, if given
to occasional Journeys to this source
Of all wisdom will do we'll to arrange
/ his next trip to the metropolis 50 as
TO be here next Saturday Thereby he
may enjoy an experience that, in the
telling, will cause all of the citizens Of
MS native town to shudder in amazed
borrow at his foolhardy bravery and
heroic devotion to his cause of socio-
logical research
There will be great doings in New
YORK next Saturday night, although
practically all of the millions of people
resident here may know nothing about
II. The occasion will be the harvest
oall and fall reunion of Mother Earth
friends" and the place, the Terrace
LNceum in East Broadway. This may
not sound exciting, but the visitor is
likely to find it So
Mother EARTH it may be explained
Is a magazine published by Emma
Goldman, a middle-aged woman who
entertains the theory that the govern
ment of man by ban is tyranny. I
would call her the high priestess Of
anarchy" but the phrase is already
threadbare. Miss Goldman, and her
rlght-hand man. Alexander Berkman,
and her first assistant editor. Hippo
iyte Havel will grace the ball with
tnelr presence, and the event will
DOUBTLESS Will be the great social event
or the season in East Broadway socie
ty
II the visitor. having paid his two
Dits TOT ticket, expects to see only
the rough. violent, unkempt anarchists
or popular fiction. he will be disap-
pointed. Even at the gatherings of the
revolutionary anarchists, this type is
almost unknown. There will be artists
and physicians and professional men
IN dress suits; pretty girls in ball
gowns; aged women, plainly clad. with
the light of semi-insane fanactism
SHINING ntheir eyes; men and woman
OF every age and class and nationality
IN this cosmopolis Of anarchism Some
are sincere in their belief and look
upon anarchism as a great cause, to
"hlch they would sacrifice their lives.
II necessary; to others the no-goyern-
inent theory is but fad an affecta-
tion, entered upon lightly and to be
"Candoned in the prospect of any triy-
lal inconvenience
The ball will probably mark tho la
pubic appearance of Miss Goldman in
new York for some time to come since
she mas announced her intention tn he
gin next month lecture tour of the
country, to be followed by an invasion
of Australia
Since the American fleet has been
SO royalty welcomed by the Ans
trailans, feel confident that will re-
ce1ve no less a reception" declared
MISS Goldman in her magazine. Which
gees to show that even the leader of
the militant anarchists has not who'll
~ purged her voca bulary of words ex-
PRESSING conventional ideas. since she
hopes for royal greeting in the
antipodes.
Inat government, sometimes un-
necessarily invasive, is yet human
necessity, is nowhere more apparent
than at the gatherings Of anarchists.
Inc sovereignty and leadership which
MISS Goldman SO cordially detests. in
others. Is exercised by herself over her
oand Of fanatical and dilettante follow
ers. Denouncing the law. Miss Gold
man speaks to her disciples with all
the authority of law-giver, and they
obey with the servility of subjects or
the most despotic sovereign. To the
philosopher who studies social aues-