Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-11-21
QUEEN OF ANARCHIsTs.
Umma Goldman the Most Trouble
some wOman In America.

Umma Goldman the Most Troubie.
some woman In America.
For more than half decade the en-.
tire secret service Of the United States.
assisted by tho postal authorities and u
score Of city police forces. has been
striving without much avail to compel
one little woman to hold her tongue.
Laws have been made especially to
dcal with her aud whole corps Of de-
tectives trained to enforce the laws.
But espionage threats, arrests md i'm.
prisonment have failed to check the
fanatical activity Of this champion Of
pests, Emma Goldman. internationally
known as the Queen Of the Anarchists.
Emma Goldman was born In 1870 ut
KoOno. Russia. and was educated there
and at kOenigsberg, Germany. In 1884.
her parents having preceded her, Em.
mn. accompanied by IN elder sister.
Helen, came to America and settled
with her relatives ut Rochester, n. y.
Here she engaged In dressmaking, ana
claims to have been successful. She
was married In 1886 to Joseph Kirsh.
ner, the ceremony being performed by
q rabbi In accordance with the faith In
which she had been brought up. This
union, however, did not prove happy.
and the couple soon separated by mu.
tual consent. but remained friends.
1t was about this time that Emma
Goldman began to take nm interest III
anarchistlc teachings. Then came tho
mountaineering episode In Chicago. for
which Parsons. Spies. Engcl, Fischer
and Lings paid the penalty on the
scaifOld, ana Emma GOldman's course
In life changed. She forthwith took
up the preaching OF what she calls
with unconscious irony. "the higher
doctrine Of humanity" and Inns stuck
to 1t since. through many viclssItudes.
At 81 the Queen" IL still a well.pre.
served woman. She Is only five feet
three inches In height. and weighs
about IL: pounds, but her youthful gait
pnd carriage give no slight impress
sion OF nervous energy and determine.
ton.
In 1888 she opened dressmaking en-
tabllshment In New York, Joined the
sPioneers Of Liberty" the oldest
anarchistlc organization In the city.
and soon made her powers OF persua.
slve speech felt. II was during that
year that she first met Alexander
Berkman. whom she has since taken
as her husband" according to the
teachings OF anarchy. Berkman sooA
after attempted the life OF Henry c.
Frick, a Pittsburg millionaire, and was
sentenced to twenty-five years impris-
onment.
The next four years she spent In CON-
pirative quiet, speaking whenever the
chance offered. and by persistent effort
developed into leader Of considerable
power and influence until she had won
the title Of "Queen OF the Anarchists"
In 1902 the police OF Newark and
Paterson, n. j., broke up numerous
meetings at which she was scheduled
t. speak. 1t was In 1903. while speak.
Ing to the unemployed at Union Square,
New York. that the police sw00ped
,, down upon the anarchists and arrested
their queen" on the charge Of "inciting
a riot" For this she was tried and
sentenced to a years imprisonment on
Blackwell's Island. She was released
at the end Of ten months 1.-THE time al
lowance for good hehavior) and at
once proceeded to Philadelphia. Here.
a. In New York, she was prevented
from speaking by the vigilance Of the
police.
We next hear Of her In Austria.
studying Vssnch; then In Wanna. w.