The Washington times., 1909-06-07
Alden Freeman to Repeat
His "Mayhower' Lunch
con Performance.
GIVES THE REASONS
FOR HIS SOCIALISM
Saws He Is Not a Millionaire and
Is Happier Without
Money.

NEW YORK, June Alden Free
man. who stirred up lot Of trouble by
taking Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman to the luncheon Of the May
flower Descendants. has another tenn
pest on his hands.
In spite of protests he is determined
TO introduce Miss Goldman TO East
Orange society again tomorrow night at
the meeting of the Open Forum COM
memorating the Tooth anniversary of the
death of Thomas Paine.
If the police stop the meeting, as
they have threatened to do, Mr.. Free
man will invite the speakers and the
audience 10 adjourn TO large room In
the loft OF his stable. He would take
them TO his house if his father were
not Ill.
an anarchist himself and then, while
the various patriotic societies OF the
Oranges are bordering whether 10 ask
him to resign from themI ne VIII denver
a patriotic address in which he will
euiOgize Paine as the greatest man
America has produced.
He will not resign from the orange
Chapter Of the Sons Of the American
Revolution, as he has been requested
Likes Trial.
II never resign from things like that. ."
said Mr.. Freeman yesterday at his
home. in East Orange. Il prefer to
make them try me on charges, for if
there is anything I dearly love it is a
trial. 1t gives a man an opportunity 10
express his ideas to ultra conservatives
who might not otherwise listen TO him. !"
Alr. Freeman has already been tried
by the MayfiOWer Descendants and eX-
onsrated for taking the anarchists 10
the luncheon. That was announced not
by Mr.. Freeman, but by one OF the
descendants
judges.
I'VE exonerated him by a vote OF Il
10 l." said one Of the eleven. He
thoroughly convinced US that he was all
right. and had not insulted the society
by inviting the anarchists. We were
very severe with him at the beginning
of the trial. but after we had got hi
point of view and realized that he was
not an anarchist, but a champion Of
freedom of speech. we shook hands with
him. and that was the end Of the mat
ter.
Mr.. Freeman is an out-and-out social
ist. and is prouder Of his red card OF
membership in. Branch No of the ma
Tional association. which was issued to
him last February than ne ever was OF
the finest four-in-hand team he ever
bred or drove over the roads Of Essex
county.
Happy Without Money.
How can you reconcile your social
sstic beliefs with the .act that you are
q millionaire. Mr. Freeman he was
asked
But I am not a millionaire he re-
piled. I have nothing but my allow
ance from nay father, and my home
here"
"Stin you aIs a prospective million
sire2'
~Oh. don't know Ny father may
so disapprove OF my activities that he
will cut me of with a shilling Blu.
that is immateriaL I have no money
now All that I ever made or save1.
about 0o0. I have got rid of, spilled
Il IN my political work as an indie
pendent, fighting the public service cor
poration. But / don't think IL was
wasted.
on the whole. 1 am happier now that
/ have no money. As I told my father,
] think that my friends among the So
cialists and WOrkingmen take me more
seriously. and / can do better work for
and with them than when il was sup
posed by them that / was wealthy"
Mr. Freeman IS a scholar a dreamer
an enthusiast. In spite OF the fact thai
he is a member Of eighteen clubs and
societies. he looks the scholar more
than the Clubman. He is delightfully."-
whimsical, and one Of his best assets IS
his sense or humor.