The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

A~ tai "five-foot bookshelf; on thls' carefully dusted, with leaves cut. but not much worn by loving re-reading, rests the plays of Ibsen. G. B. S.. and Haupt- mann: also Nitszche and Sudermann, and various other books dealing with social ] ism:' of books on "anarchism' one although socialism" and "anarcnlsm are sometimes associated in people s
 minds as one and the same thing. ! Personally, I am steeped in a deep con tent with life. but if there are condl-
 ticns which cause all the dark blue pes simism indicated by certain ''isms' to | take hold on mankind to even an in | finitesmal degree to emanate from great minds and good. it is a solemn duty l | feel to find out where the grievance is | and what it comes from; for no one of I us has right to be contented and happy when the other three-fourths of the
 world shakes it's fist skyward and curses | the powers-that-be
 l had the chance to find out some- thing about all this commotion when | read in the big "dailies' in New Yorl: | that there was to be a mass meeting | at Carnegie hall in compliment to Emma l Goldman, socialist and anarchist, on the | evening of the day when she was re- leased from a term of imprisonment in
 the Queens county jail for lecture slH l had delivered on Firth Control" 1 vent and seldom have I ever seen | a more remarkable demonstration; Car negie hals which is one of the biggest places in New York, was packed to the
 doors; surging, throbbing, high tensioned hundreds of people clamored and pushed 1 their way ill. and above the din and cat- 1 ter of the crowds could be heard the | voices of men and women as they
 shouted out the Emma Goldman litera- ture; Miss Goldman's Lecture on Birth 1 Control " Mother Earth" with Emma l Goldman Before the Barr Emma Gold
 man on the Social Aspects of Birth Con- l trol.'' and many more similar pamphlets. l On the stage sat the speakers, Theo- | dore Schroeder, Leonard D. Abbott, Ar turo Giovannitti, Harry Weinberger, Rose Pastor Stokes and Dr. Ben l. Reit- l man. Max Eastman was the chairman. and he read letters from Charles Ram Kennedy expressing his regrets at not being able to be present, and some Eng | lish author whose name I couldn't catch. but who was evidently of some impor- tance.
 Of course. everybody expected the po- l lice to stop the meeting, as they did be- | fore; few had any idea that 1t would l ever go on; everybody was asking if 1 Emma Goldman would really appear and l speak and everybody was told that she would if the police didn't interfere. | Well, they didn't; there was really nothing doing in the arresting line at 1 first; everything was quiet along the Po- tomac; at least as far as the cops" were concerned.
 | MT. Eastman in introducing the speak | ers dwelt at length upon how long and l.. 1. 4 %l,4 oftener and the longer the producer they were of the fact; each speaker reiterated | this and told, with pride of having served sentence for what he had said or done
 l Arturo Giovannati seemed to have won
 the blue ribbon on this score, for Mr. l Eastman said of him
 Here, friends, is a man who was the
 guest of the prison authorities in Salem. Mass, for 10 months.''
 1 It will be recalled that Giovannatti was | arrested during the I. w. w. riots in | Salem.
 1 During the speechmaking the crowds
 were so great that many were standing, | while others draped themselves around posts, giving an effect not unlike worn 1 Armenian rugs used decoratively over 1 papier mache stairs in amateur theatri- calls.
 The only time the police did service during the meeting was when Mrs. Rose
 Pastor Stokes the millionaire wife of J. G. Phelps Stokes, aroused them. 1 MT. Stokes met Rose Pastor when he
 was engaged in settlement work and she was then a reporter for a Jewish paper. l She had formerly worked in cigar fac l tory, it is said.
 | The New York Times the morning after
 the Birth Control meeting to welcome
 Emma Goldman from prison and to pro- t1ar ct l the unjust, antiquated court rulings which send men and women to prison | for teaching that which no one can deny will make the world a better place in
 which to live, contained the following:
 "Defying the police to arrest her, Mrs.
 Rose Pastor Stokes, wife of J.. G. Phelps
 Stokes. stood on the stage of Carnegie 1 hall last night after meeting and
 passed out slips giving birth, control in- formation to all who sought them. The | meeting was a demonstration to welcome | Emma Goldman on her release from prison, where she was sent for spreading
 birth control propaganda, but Mrs Stokes ran away with the meeting.
 Mrs Stokes had announced her inten- ton of giving out the slips in speech in which she took fling at tho police Miss Goldman spoke after her, and the
 meeting was nearly broken up by per | sons climbing upon the stage to get the l slips. As soon as the meeting was over
 men and women, including many young men and young girls, rushed forward in
 a scramble for the slips.
 1 Mrs. Stokes found herself in the midst 1 of a pushing, unruly mass. Chairs were i overturned and the private policemen in l the hall attempted to clear the stage to prevent damage to property, but they were unsuccessful. Several fights were started in different parts of the stage. l The cry went up from those who were in front of the stage that Mrs. Stokes was being arrested, but Max Eastman, the chairman of the meeting, jumped upon a chair to tell them that the dis turbance resulted only from an eagerness l to get the slips.
 TT expect to be arrested" Mrs. Stokes told the reporters after she had left the 1 stage.'"
 Immediately following Mrs. Stokes came the remarkable woman in whose
 honor the meeting was held.
 She had not up to that time appeared upon the stage.
 Of Emma Goldman and her imprison- ment, Leonard D. Abbott, one of the i'm portant men concerned in the meeting, said:
 Tt is 23 years since Emma Goldman
 suffered a prison sentence as the result
 of an impassioned speech she made at a demonstration of striking cloak makers and of the unemployed in Union Square, 1 New York. Her crime at that time was that she quoted the famous maxim of Cardinal Manning, Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a nat
 ural right to share of his neighbor s