The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-16

THE TRUTH ABOUT ONE
NEW YORK Nov. 1e.-Hist!

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/ A man goes through both OF EN-. |
His hair and whiskers are shaggy and
Iunkempt His features are partly |
hidden by broad SLOUGH hat. His
figure is rluffled in shabby cloak.
The man crosses the ill-paved court. |
"A flight OF steep stone steps, Going
down, The man goes down. A heavy,
reconstructed door. The man knocks
on 1t in a peculiar manner. A wicket
"opens and fierce eye peeks out.
Then the door swings open and the
muffled man goes inside. A long,
low room dimly illuminated by few
j guttering candles in sconces around
the wall Some more muffled men
sitting at heavy table, Muffled man
No. ] approaches and takes seat
|, too Company converses in hoarse
: whispers.
Z Footsteps outside, Low growi
: passes around table. General clutch
, ing OF weapons, Comrades, remem-
Der we can die but once. 'Tis for the
| cause" Footsteps pass on. Company
: trelaxes vigilance. Somebody throws
e a handful of paper slips into hat.
i Assembled conspirators take one
t apiece one at time. Muffled man
/ No. finds a black cross on his. He
goes over to shelf where there's a
t row of round, black things with
!, fuses on 'em ready for business.
8 Jumping Jimmy! they're bombs!
Muffled man No. / takes one and
n hides it under his cloak. Fierce eyed
+ man at wicket gives signal. TITS
n well. Door swings open again and
0 conspirators sneak out.
( Hist.
VI That's what some people think an
anarchist meeting is like. Now for
t what one really is like.
n Emma Goldman, high priestess OF
e anarchy in America. lectures every
IS Sunday night at 43 East Twenty-sec
ond street, New York. A big poster il
e front of the house announces the fact
II The low archway and dark alley are
missing. So is the ill-paved court
The house fronts directly on the
street and is brilliantly illuminated
There is a fight of steps but 1t goes
UP instead of down. You don't have II
knock. The door is open. But the.
make you buy ticket before you car
go inside.
Three or four rooms are thrown to
gether to answer for an auditorium
They will hold 200 Or goo people ant
by 8 o'clock they are generally prett.
We. filled. For the most part TIL
audience consists of well-dressed
very ordinary-looking men and WON
en-. There is thick sprinkling o
upper-class workingmen and universit
students among them.
Miss Goldman Is invariably yer
late. This is to give DIR. Ben Ritema
time to sell anarchist literature fror
the platform. The doctor is larg
man with persuasive manner. Hi
hair is somewhat shaggy, for fac
but he wears only mustache-n
whiskers, unkemp- or otherwise "a
usual he says genially. Il see som
of our friends, the plain-clothes mel
are among us. Welcome, gentlemel
hope the lecture does you good
Miss Goldman appears on the pla
form almost exactly at $3.50 and tall
for about an hour There is I
; hist" about Emma Goldman She hi
a voice that any orator might be prot
of and uses 1t for all it's worth. 81
understands English perfectly b
: speaks with slight foreign accent
! To look properly sinister and da
! gerous an anarchist ought to be
= brunette but Miss Goldman isn't. II
hair is a somewhat reddish shade
yellow and her skin Is fair. She
short, and without being exactly IL
is very heavily built. Her face is
strong mans and her eyes sni
] through sparkling rimless glasses. n
L parentiy she does not worry mu
about dress but she evidently h
enough regard for style to prefer n
). to look queer
Emma Goldman's platform mann
+ is not persuasive and almost 1ovi
l like DR.. Ritemans. 1t is aggressi
and dead in earnest 1t is alme
!. vituperative in spots. Miss Goldm
! seems to assume that everybody
S her audiences dsagrees with her. F
people who have already been
tirely or almost converted to
d archy her lectures are doubtless j.
o the thing. Blu. perhaps they are j.
q trife strong in tone to convir
persons of opposite views. They Sc
calculated to shock and antagon
rather than to convert. OF course t
is partly because the average c
y servative doesn't know, without
I more or less complete course of pr
aration, what an anarchist means
I what he or she says. Still, anar
n lists ought to take that into conside
I ton in their PROSECUTING.
= If anyone thinks, however, t