River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-18

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"A by the postal authorities
and a score Of city police
forces have been striving without
much avail to compel one little woman
20 hold her tongue. Laws have been
made especially to deal with her, and
whole corps of detectives trained to
enforce the laws. But neither espion-
age, threats, arrests or imprisonment
have served TO check the fanatical ac-
tivity Of Emma Goldman, information
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 i'll
balanced is laid the death OF President
Mckinley, the assassination of several
foreign rulers. the attempt on the life
of Henry G. Frick and many other out
RACES 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 a doc
trine OF murder in democratic coun-
try whenever she speaks? This ques-
ton has never been satisfactorily an
swered, for the woman is a 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. AT
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
M 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
brought up This union, however, did
not prove happy and the couple soon
separated by mutual consent, but re-
manned friends
1t was about this time that Emma
Goldman began to take an interest in
anarchistic teachings. Then came the
Mountaineering episode in Chicago, for
which Parsons, Spies, Engell, 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 81 the queen is still a well pre-
served woman. She is only five feet
three inches in height and weighs
about 1872 pounds, but her youthful
gait and carriage give no slight i'm
preston OF nervous energy and deter
mination,
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
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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 low, tense voice, strongly
suggesting black leopard in it's cage.
Arriving in New York during the
spring of 1888 she set up a dressmak-
ing establishment. Joined the Pho
neers of Liberty" the oldest anarchis-
tic organization in the city, and soon
made her powers of persuasive speech
felt. 1t was during that year that she
first met Alexander Berkman, whom
she has since taken as husband" ac-
ccrding to the teachings of anarchy
lBeTkman soon attempted the life of
Henry c. Prick, a Pittsburg million
iRire, and was sentenced to % years
Imprisonment.
The next four years she spent in
comparative quiet, speaking whenever
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