The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-26
By Glenn Guernsey.

SOAC ISoluSuI VI IuS luSlSniuCdHL pOT-
ton 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 well to
arrange his next trip to the metropolis
so as to be here next Saturday. There
by he may enjoy an experience that,
in the telling, will cause all of the cit
lens of his native town to shudder in
amazed horror at his foolhardy bravery
and heroic devotion to his cause of
sociological 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
it. The occasion will be the harvest
ball and fall reunion of Mother Earth
friends" and the place the Terrace
Lyceum in East Broadway. This may
not sound exciting, but the visitor is
likely to find it so.
Mother EaI th," it may be explain
ed, is a magazine published by Emma
Goldman, middle-aged woman who
entertains the theory that the govern
ment of man by man is tyranny. I
would call her the "high priestess of
anarchy" but the phrase is already
threadbare. Miss Goldman, and her
right-hand man, Alexander Berkman,
and her first assistant editor, Hippo
lyte Havel. will grace the ball with
their presence and the event will
doubtless be the greatest social event
of the season in the East Broadway So
siety.
If the visitor, having paid his two
bits for ticket, expects to see only
the rough, violent, unkempt anarchists
of popular fiction. he will be disap-
pointed. Even at the gatherings of the
revolutionary anarchists, this type is
almost unknown. There will be ar
lists and physicians and professional
men in dress suits; pretty girls in ball
gowns; aged women, plainly clad, with
the light of a semi-insane fanaticism
shining in their eyes; men and women
of every age and class and nationality
in this cosmopolis of anarchism.
Some are sincere in their belief and
look upon anarchism as great cause,
to which they would sacrifice their
lives, if necessary; to others the no.
government theory is but a fad, an
affectation, entered upon lightly and
to be abandoned in the prospects Of
any trivial inconvenience.
The ball will probably mark the last
public appearance of Miss Goldman in
New York for some time to come, since
she has announced her intentions to be-
gin next month a lecture tour of the
country, to be followed by an invasion
of Australia.
Since the American fleet has been
so royalty welcomed by the Aus
tralians, feel confident that will re-
ceive no less reception" declared
Miss Goldman, in her magazine. Which
goes to show that even the leader of |
the militant anarchists has not wholly |
purged her vocabulary of words ex-
pressing conventional ideas. since she |
hopes for royal" greeting in the
Antipodes.
That government, sometimes I'M
necessarily invasive, is yet a human |
necessity, is nowhere more apparent |
than at the gatherings of anarchists.
The sovereignty and leadership which
Miss Goldman so cordially detests in |
others. is exercised by herself over
her band of fanatical and dilettante |
followers. Denouncing the law. Miss
Goldman speaks to her disciples with |
all the authority of a law-giver, and |
they obey with the servility of subjects
of the most despotic sovereign. To |
the philosopher who studies social |
questions without passion or prejudice
the anarchist appear to have less lib
erty of initiative than the poor dupes
of recommendation" and anarchism
itself but new name for a despotism
in petticoats.
Ban on Silk Hats.
A trip up the white way in the
evening, when the theatre crowds are
gathering, leads to the observation
that New York men are growing less
conventional in their observance of
the dictates of fashion. Perhaps the
most noteworthy evidence Of this
change is the absence of conventional
evening dress and silk hats. The
Tuxedo, with the accompanying der
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