The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-11

full scheme of self government that
says every man is born euual''
Miss Goldman is a rapid speaker.
While the audience is trying to grasp
the little details of her new hope, the
woman is over on the next topic: She
flags the church and there is no mercy
in the drubbing that she gives religion
and the practice which she terms as
the reverence of spooks and super
stition.'
Wants No Religion.
"a most beautiful religion you have
established, a most wonderful reveIa-
tion,'' sneered the female anarchist, 'ta
system that is so comprehensive that
on every street corner is a policeman
and a preacher. One holds in his
hand club-the other Bible. You
are told to take your choice. Logical
or not? Such a divine belief have
they fostered in the public mind that
Gentle is taught to hate Jew, white to
hate black-and this they call religion.
In the name of society they turn a
deaf ear upon the convict and won
der why crime is not diminished. So
extremely successful has been this
great state of Kansas they have writ
ten in the statute a law that says
what man shall eat and drink. They
have offered a man made religion fos-
tered by war and bloodshed-blood
of innocent men and women who must
die at the hands of men they never
met. ct they Sc1y III TIE SdIl10 III CdtAl
that man who rights wrong through
revenge shall suffer in the electric
chair, or spend his life in prison.
So humane have they became that
they even permit the use of hanging
by thumbs, use of the humming bird
a slow grinding process on the spinal
column of prisoners leads to
commissions"
For fully ten minutes Miss Goldman
continued her TRADE against the
nnfi0n che f1nT-
ped back to politics. There was sar-
casm back of every word as she abus-
ed political organizations.
ST want to tell you of a government
that beams with mockery and trick
ery,'' exclaimed Miss Goldman, land
out of whose bright promises the
courts line up with the rich and pit
organized capital against the man of
the shops. But with all of this 1 want
to point you to the peop1e-poor dumb
beasts-who follow like slaves the
parties that promise Heaven before
the election and give them hell after
wards.
and these great and glorious par
ties continued the speaker, have
constructed a system of laws that no
one man can master. Those laws do
not so much tell that you shall not
commit an offense against the de-
fenseless, but they devote pages tell
ing you how to do it.
fers from constipation of the brain
and needs blowing up. For that
reason L believe in bombs-in dyna-
dynamite-any
thing that will make people think. Be
cause just as soon as the labOring man
refuses to furnish the rich with its
daily loaf of bread, just that soon will
the world wake up. Just as soon as
the laboring man refuses to fight the
lazy mans battle-just as soon as he
quits believing the politicians will
we solve the great questions and step
into our economic power
Touching on compulsory education,
Miss Goldman said:
cover the door of every school
room there should be a sign which
would read, Pre-digested food given
here
She Answers Questions.
After the apostle of anarchy had
finished her lecture she spent so
minutes answering questions from the
audience. 1t is. in the question and
answer department. that Miss Goldman
is especially strong. She drove home
her doctrine with every answer. She
fayed the minister who attacked her
meeting and declared that he would
not allow the public to visit his
church and ask questions about his
religion. Every questionable detail of
her lecture was tied to the rocks and
through her discourse, she held the
close attention of her audience.
Then DR.. Ben L. Reitman, the press
agent and king of hoboes, sold more
pamphlets and the meeting was over.
Marriage and Love-" and has prom
Used to remove the scalp from the
marriage custom.