The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-11
HOT AND SIZZLING
Emma GOldman's Lecture Too
Warm for Comfort.
DenOunces All Government and
All Religion.
WHATANARCHY MEANS
Definition Left No Room to
Doubt.
She Will Discuss Marriage and
Love" Tonight.

Emma Goldman, the most famous of
all the anarchists in the world, spoke in
North Topeka last night. No, there
weren't any bombs, because Miss Gold
man doesn't carry the real sure enough
dynamite in the handbag-she doesn't
even believe in bloodshed. But she has
bombs nevertheless, verbal ones and
she explodes these by the dozens. She
knows people will be shocked and she
enjoys the look Of horror on their faces
as she touches off her missiles under
their idols and blows them into frag
ments. She is the sworn enemy of the
police and why shouldn't she be, for the
police, low born. brutal faced officers
have often interfered with the dissent
nation of her doctrine and they have
even escorted her to Jail. But the To-
peka police are different. Two of them
attended her meeting last night and If
they could have hidden their clubs
without attracting her attention they
would have done so. They stood shame
facedly while the little woman de-
nounced all authority and especially
the police, and once one of them
swept off his feet by the torrent of her
eloquence-actually applauded her sent
imentS.
Mayor Billiard was there and Tom
McNeal also, but neither of them ap
peared greatly shocked, perhaps be-
cause they haven't had time to get
their equilibrium since the recent cleo
ton. Then there were others who ap-
plauded the sentiments of the speaker
which indicates that there are a few
anarchists even in Topeka. These were
all old men for whom the sands have
nearly run out and who no doubt con-
slider life a failure and turn to any
thing that suggests a change from the
system" under which they have suf-
fere6.
There is one thing about Miss Gold
mans speech that can not be forgiven.
She spoke of the late G. G. Clemens as
having been a brother of Mark Twain.
Such lamentable ignorance will not be
tolerated in Topeka even If it does
sound well and Miss Goldman may ac-
cordingly take it for granted that she
has been slapped on the wrist.
The meeting last night would pro-
badly be called success, though there
were only about 200 people present.
Raped the Government.
There was not wheel in the great
system of government that Miss Gold
man overlooked. For years she has
studied each with great care. She has
fortified each position with consider
able care and like the Populists of
ancient days, took kindly to argument.
Capital is one of the great evils to
which Emma pays profound respects
The administration of Law does not
escape nGT ODSeTVdLlOn ana SIl6 QW6llS
at length on the persecution of the
downtrodden. Then comes religion
and society. Each Is scorched in a
mercileSS manner.
There are no block signals on Emma
Goldman's right of way When she
opens her mouth, she lets the words
ooze out with little concern. Some
times they smack of the teachings of
Malta and black hand and portray the
most hopeless dreams of anarchy. But
IT,, @fT n
lily she pounds away at the one mis-
Vividly she tells of
the ignorance of the masses, scolds the
idle rich, denounces capital and turns
up a pudgy little nose at the idola-
trous teachings Of religion.
On top of all these things, Emmas
personal appearance is a handicap
and she must work hard to hold an
audience. Miss Goldman is AZ. Her
rather swarthy complexion must be
added to a decidedly PIGGY nose that
fattens out right at the end. With
all of this Enmas two rows of teeth
are uneven. In a head of coarse
brown hair is not a single rat or drug
store fixture. Emma is also becoming
rather stout. In fact, she is bit
dabby and the absence OF corset be
comes apparent even before the stocky
little woman starts on her TRADE
against the government. But Emma
hates corsets. Never in all those AZ
own any contraption that tended to
make her look like the models in the
corner dry goods store.
1t is while Emma is drinking wa
ter from a glass that the audience
makes these deductions. however, and
Miss Goldman herself will never know
of them.
Few preIiminaries mark the opening
of Miss Goldman's lecture. To be
sure, her press agent. Ben Reitman,
y1an like the late q q Glenn
ems, sold several score pamphlets. He
introduced the speaker. In two min
utes she had waded into her subject
Ia Battling Nelson style Almost be-
fore the crowd knew it Miss Goldman
was fairly splitting fire. She was hurl-
ing denUnciations at the church and
heaping vituperation on the police.
Emma has little use for the police. 1t
was they who broke up the executive
sessions of the clan in Chicago, in
New York and in San Francisco and
now Miss Goldman is paying respects
to them as the wretched tool of
tyrannical political organization fos-
tered and maintained by the ignorant
masses.
objects to All order.
Then for a minute she goes into a
review of the plan of anarchy. Al
most before anyone knows it she un-
loads the red flag of discomfort, waves
her hands above her head and adj
vances to the front of the stage. For
ten minutes she pours hot shot in
every branch of government. She ar
raigns the courts, the judges, all law,
the iniquity of majority rule. Sud-
denly she switches her attack to the
corporations. to organized capital, the
idle rich and the land holder.
capital is robbing men of the free
dom of initiative" she shouts, and
there is a ring in her voice that clear
ly indicates she means every word of
it, land that robbery is making every
working man a bit of merciless, re-
lentless machine that brushes and kills
him. Back yonder under the protec-
ton of your man made laws is the