Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-03
Emma Goldman Ridicules Idea
That Chief shippy's Slayer
Was Anarchist
WOMAN is A DIRE MENACE
Her Teachings Aided to inspire As
sassination of President Mckinley
High Prestess of the Rods in This
country-Preached Violence for
Twenty Years.

| Springfield Mo-, March 3.-Emina
Goldman. high priestcss OF the an
archists, arrived in Springfield last
night from ST. Louis and was shown
an account of the attack by Harry
Averbuch upon Chief OF Police Shpps
OF Chicago.
Isn't that absurd" said Miss Gold
man. with a mocklng laugh. Some
body shoots somebody else or tries to
kill him. and the officers of the law
the newspapers, and the people cry
'Anarchist'
They know nothing about this man
yet he must be an anarchist because
lie tried TO kill the chief of police.
Il know nothing authentic about the
Chicago affair. but III guarantee that
the man was not an anarchist, but
fanatic or some one who had private
grudge against Shippy.
Mayor Blain Of Springfield tried to
prevent the speaking of Miss Goldman
here, but the city attorney informed
IllIl lIldl lIiclt w IIO itON uiiSiSl "i''N's
he could interfere. The police, how
ever. watched the woman and her
meeting She lectured here last night
and will speak again tonight.
Woman Leader of Reds.
Emma Goldman, the woman leader
of the reds, whose speeches helped to
inspire CzolgosZ to assassinate Presi-
dent Mckinley. was in retirement for a
couple of years after she was arrested
following the shooting of the president.
but during the last three or four years
has been as active as ever In her at
tacks on society
Three years ago she worked for a
time as hairdresser, but when Alex
ander Berkman, who shot n. G. Frick.
was released from the penitentiary she
and Berkman contracted an anarchial
marriage and have since been touring
the country together.
She first met Berkman when she was
a schoolgirl In st. Petersburg, and it
was her teachings after she rejolned
him in the United States which led
him, when he was 81 years old. to shoot
Henry G. F'rick chairman of the Car
negie Steel company, during the Home
stead strike in July, 1892.
Recently 1t was reported she had
gone to Russia and that the United
States immigration authorities were
planning to bar her il she attempted
to return to the United States.
1t appears. however, that the report
that she had left this country was err
roneous. The authorities In Washing
ton said a few days ago that no plans
were being made with reference to her
Following the shooting of President
Mckinley. Emma Goldman was arrest
ed in a flat in Sheffield avenue in Chi
cago on September 10. 1901. and re-
manned in Jail until September %.
when she was released for lack of evil
dence Of completely in the assassina-
ton.
In several addresses she has deliv-
cred to anarchists in Chicago since
1901 she has taken particular care to
denounce the police On Nov. 16. 1902.
she spoke In Brands hall and referred
to the four policemen present as "uni-
formed animals"
breaches Violence Twenty Years.
She has been preaching anarchy for
nearly twenty years. but did not get
into the police records until 1898. when
she was arrested in New York on a
warrant charging her with "incitng a
riot"
She then spent seven months OF a
one years sentence on Blackwell's is
land for incendiary speeches in New
York during the Debs labor troubles.
She previously had led a strike of
the Waist and Shirtmaker Girls I'M
ion in New York, but without coming
under the notice of the police.
Emma Goldman was born in Russia,
and was taken to Germany by her
parents when she was a child. return
ing later to Russia. She got the first
germs of anarchy from an uncle in ST.
Petersburg, where at school her motto
already was kill the oppressors!"
There when she was not vet 90 years
old, she Joined secret societies whose
purpose was revolution. and made
anarchists of some of her schoolmates.
She preached anarchy to her parents,
who tried in vain to discourage her.
Scooter at Religion.
She came to the United States In
1886, after having lived in Russia Ger
many France and England. Her fam
iIy went to Rochester. n. Y. where the
young woman Immediately attempted
to form anarchist groups
She Mortified the people Of Rochester
with her ridicule of religion and gov
eminent. and was forced to leave.
She then went to New York and
secured employment at a factory,
tn hy
among her fellow employees. Altho she
spoke and wrote four languages and
was educated in the classics she
sought the company OF the most ignor-
ant people of the east side. and there
succeeded in forming several anarchist
groups among the foreign population
In New York in 1890 she married
man named Kerstner said to have been