The Green Forest tribune., 1908-06-19

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 and a score of city police forces, have been striving without much avail to compel one little woman to hold her tongue. Laws have been made especially to deal with her. and whole corps of detectives trained to enforce the jaws. But neither espion- age, threats, arrests or imprisonment have served to check the fanatical ac- tivity of Emma Goldman, internation- ally known as the Queen of the Anar- chists," says a writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 To this woman's influence over the ignorant, the embittered and the ill balanced is laid the death of President Mckinley, the assassination of several foreign rulers, the attempt on the life of Henry c. Prick and many other out rages of like kind. Yet she is still sowing the seeds of violence in this land of liberty with such success that the federal state and municipal au- thorities have become thoroughly alarmed and now are making a com bined struggle to stamp out once for all the dangerous fire of anarchy.
 And what manner of woman is this who is able to win converts to doe Urine of murder in a democratic coun- try whenever she speaks? This ques tion has never been satisfactorily an swered, for the woman is good deal of a mystery in spite of the fact that her doings are chronicled almost daily in the newspapers. This impartial study of her and her career was made at first hand, and is the first complete account yet published.
 Came to America.
 Emma Goldman was born on June 27, 1870, at Kovno, Russia, an impor- tant town in the western part of the empire near the German border. Af- ter attending school in her native town she was sent to Koonigsberg, Germany, to finish her education In 1884, her parents having preceded her, Emma, accompanied by her elder sis ter Helen, came to America and set tied with her relatives at Rochester, N. Y. Here she engaged in dressmak- ing and claims to have been success full She was married in 1886 to Jos eph Kirshner, the ceremony being per formed by a rabbi in accordance with the faith in which she had been 2 brought up. This union. however, did not prove happy and the couple soon separated by. mutual consent, but re- mained friends.
 It was about this time that Emma Goldman began to take an interest in anarchistic teachings. Then came the bomb-throwing episode in Chicago, for which Parsons, Spies, EngelI, Fischer and Lingg, all anarchists, paid the penalty on the scaffold and Emma Goldman's course in life changed, she forthwith took up the preaching of what she calls, with unconscious irony, "the higher doctrine of humani- ty,' and has stuck to it since, through many vicissitudes.
 At 37 the queen is still we'll pre- served woman. She is only five feet three inches in height and weighs about 132 pounds, but her youthful gait and carriage give no slight i'm pression of nervous energy and deter imitation,
 Black Her Favorite Color.
 Her hand is small and well kept her complexion youthful and her hair still chestnut. Her dark, penetrating eyes shine lynxlike behind glasses which hide her most marked sign of age, a growing network of wrinkles This astonishing woman's voice is low and pleasant and the impression one gets of her, despite the firm chin, is of mildness and gentleness, even when she is speaking in public.
 Black is her favorite color, because the most effective, with her collarless gowns, in enhancing her appearance. On the platform she makes no ges- lures, but walks back and forth as she talks in a low, tense voice, strongly suggesting a black leopard in it's cage
 Arriving in New York during the spring of 1888 she set up a dressmak- ing establishment, joined the "Pio- neers of Liberty" the oldest anarchis- tic organization in the city, and soon made her powers of persuasive speech felt. It was during that year that she first met Alexander Berkman, whom she has since taken as husband" ac- cording to the teachings of anarchy. BerkmaD soon attempted the life of Henry C. Prick, Pittsburg million aire, and was sentenced to 22 years Imprisonment
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