The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
Emma Goldman Says She Can
not Be Dep0rted.
Alleges That She Is a Full
Pledged American Citizen.
WILL GO RIGHT ON
With Her Propaganda Regard
less of the Police.
Echuettler Says They Are Not
Looking for Her.
GO RIGHT ON

chicago, Marcn 6.-Ine 1rlOune
today says:
Emma Goldman, the so-called
priestess of anarchy, spent yesterday
in Chicago. keeping clear of the po-
lice and resting with friends at go
North Winchester avenue. She has
been here since late Wednesday night
Miss Goldman was in good humor
when she was discovered by re-
porter. The police had not seen
her, but Assistant Chief Schuettler.
had said he was not seeking her. "Of
course l did not expect to be found.
I am too well acquainted with police
stupidity to expect such a thing as
that I expect to go out tomorrow
and go about my business as usual
and If the police want me, of course
they will arrest me. But I can't see
what charge they can make against
me-"
How about the report that you are
liable to be deported by the govern
nent under the law forbidding the
admission of foreign anarchists to
this country"
There's nothing to it. 1t was
talked Of when I returned from Eu-
rope last fall, but the government
authorities could find no law for it,
Are you a naturaHzed American
citizen?"
81 am an American citizen. My
father was naturalized when 1 was II
years old. That made me an Ameri-
can citizen when L became of age"
Miss Goldman said she would go
right on with her plans for meetings
and will hold them unless stopped by
the police.
The attack of chief of Police
Shippy, shooting of his son and driver
and the death of the assailant, has
aroused a renewal of universal inter
est in the extent of the anarchistic
propaganda in the United States. In
vestigations prove it to be far more
extensive than a casual observer
would suggest 1t is declared that
there are 40 groups of anarchists who
defy the law in Chicago alone. Since
the day of the bloody Haymarket
riots in 1880 the men who are striv-
ing to plant the seeds of anarchy in
the United States have made Chicago
their special point of attack because
of its cosmopolitan population. The
attack on Shippy proves to have been
made by a Russian immigrant who
had been in this country but three
months. It is because of the attrac-
ton which Chicago has for hundreds
of thousands of these foreigners that
the anarchistic orator.
BY far the most interesting figure
in local anarchy is the notorious EN-
ma Goldman. hailed as the greatest
y
The man killed while attacking Chief
Shippy spent the Saturday previous
distributing handbills for an Emma
Goldman meeting. 1t was her preach
ing that is declared to have inspired
Czolgosz, assassin of Mckinley and
Berkman, who spent IA years in a
Pennsylvania penitentiary for trying
to kill H. C. Frick. Her favorite sub
ject Is '"The Crisis: Its Cause and
Remedy" also "Anarchism: What It
the past few months have borne the
advice, Don't forget the celebration
of the Paris Commune, March 49,"
This linking of a discussion of Ameri-
can affairs with the story of the
French revolution is quite typical of
the means which Miss Goldman and
her supporters Justify.
At least Is, 900 persons in this city are
said. to be either avowed anarchists or
in sympathy with them. It is the boast
of Chicago's high priestess of anarchy
Lucy Parsons, that among the ranks
of the anarchists not only are num-
bered the sweatshop toiler whose Rus
sian ancestry makes him peculiarly
susceptible to the teachings of anarchy
but that number of the most scholar
1y men in Chicago are secretly mem
bers of the anarchistic groups Mrs
Parsons, half Indian, half Spanish. the
widow of one of the anarchists who
died upon the scaffold because of the
Haymarket riots, is looked upon as the
directing head of Chicago's anarchistic
groups, while Miss Goldman is their
chosen prophet.
The local groups hold their regular
weekly meetings and are addressed
upon subjects of special reference to
anarchy and its purposes. The major
ity of groups are each of a distinct ma
tionality. There is but one American
group and local anarchy boasts this
meets in the Masonic temple The
most interesting group is composed of
young Jews and is called the Edelstadt
group after a quiet old shoemaker who
long ago was an organizer for anarchy,
but who now lives in California, hav-
Ing forsaken the red flag and become
q sun worshipper. This group was re-
sponsible for the meeting which Miss
Goldman was to have addressed the
present week and hand bills for which
the assassin of Chief Shippy was cir
cuiating prior to his murderous attack
But neither this group nor any other
will hold further meeting in Chicago
II the police have their way Instead
of unnerving him or shifting his pur-
pose the serious condition of his son
has but steeled the purpose of Shippy
and he declares there will be no further
meetings, speeches or circulation of an
archistio literature in Chicago. In this
eentiment he has the entire sympathy
and supoort of Mayor Busse, who it
is also said has been marked for
slaughter and all of the city fathers.
From the Investigations which have re-
suited since the Shippy episode, Chi
cago harbors several we'll defined ideas
on the subject of meeting this tre-
mendous issue and the principal idea
should be one hundred fold as severe