The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
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ANARCHIsTIc SPEECHES
Any Kind Of Talk Goes in One Corner
Of tire Park Where Free Speech
Has Full
Sway.
by Ed L. Keen. London Correspond
ent OF the United Press.1

ent OF the United Press.l
LONDON. Sept Something
they do in undemocratic old England
are quite shocking to the newly ar
rfved American Both the things they
do and the way they do them.
1t Emma Goldman were to attempt
to expound the doctrines Of anarchy
IN Central Park, or in the White Lot
at Washfn gton, she would doubtless
be given an unsympathetic reception
by both the populace and authorities.
fet, here in London every Sunday az
teFnoon one may hear anarchy OF the
pure, unadulterated type preached on
the svard of Hyde Park. almost with
in tbs. shadow OF Buckingham Palace.
And the police are at hand-to protect
the speaker. 4 corner in the park is
set aside as a sort OF public forum
where anyone with mission or a
grievance may deliver his message to
his countrymen. No sort of bug is
barred. Meetings arranged for to-
morrow include woman suffrazists,
Observation-Disclosures, anti-Catholics. So
cialists mild and revolutionary, sal.
walton army, Irish homeruIers and
Ulster anti-hon.e rulers, and Ave brand
new varieties of religion, as well as
anarchists Each cult has its own
particular plot of ground upon which
the others by common courtesy do
not encroach. Each has its own Glen
tele. The orators are Obliged to sub
nit to a certain amount of hacking.
and in some instances are forced 10
retire from the field, the successful
heckler appropriating the audience It
Is rare, however, tina. there Is any at
tempt at physical violence, no matter
how rabid or unpaIatable the charac-
ter Of the speakers utterances. It Is
free speech with a vengeance The
audiences are composed chiefly of
working men, and the questions they
put indicate an unusual degree Of in
telligence.
II is true that the anarchist orator
Of last Sunday, whose sonorous de-
maids for the abolition of all govern
ment might have been heard by King
George had he been sitting in the
back parler of the palace with the win
dows open, had some difficulty with
his audience when the time for heck
ling arrived. But the only brickbats
hurled were verbal ones. It was no
ticeaBIe, moreover, that many of the
questions came from men who APP
parentIy agreed with the speaker in
principle, and differed only in minor
points of doctrine. He did not go into
the methods whereby he would bring
about the end of all governments. but
doubtless II he had there would have
been more to modest.
The most largely attended OF these
Sunday soirees are the woman srff-
rage meetings, particularly those con-
Quoted By the new mems league for
woman suffrage Herein is the visitor
provided with another shock He finds
that the speaker, instead Of being an
anaemic, henpecked appearing old
gentleman with furtive eye and droop-
ing whiskers, is robust young fellow
Of IS or Whereabouts who looks as II
ne might have been drafted by the
cause from the football field He
has his audience With him from the
start, and none Of his arguments is
better received than his reference to
the recent Hooligan scene I'm the
house OF commons when the conser-
yatives howled down Premier Asqufth.
DO you believe our mothers and sig
ters would behave like that?" he
asks. "No." thunders the crowd