Evening star., 1926-12-27
RED EMMA CLAIMS
IDEAS BEST BOMBS
Goldman, Preaching Gospel
in Canada, Gives YuIe Party.
Calls Jazz Anarchy.
special Dispatch to The Star.

4 ne OI ENeu HlS IcCOS
of Christian civilizations greatest an
niversary marked no change, she pro-
| fesses, in Emma Goldman's attitude
toward society. She says she still is
| in revolt against all traditional au-
thority and the tyranny of accepted
ideas.
| Nearly a quarter Of a century ago
| RED Emma" spent year in an
American penitentiary on charge of
| melting riots. 1t was even alleged
she Influenced the mind Of CZolgosz,
McKinley's assassin. Ten years ago
| in New York she had the distinction
America of disseminating information
about birth control. A few years
later. by preaching resistance to the
selective draft, she fell foul of the
| conspiracy act. After serving another
term In jail she was deported as an
| undesirable alien.
! On a clear day RED Emma" can
mount to the top of one of Toronto's
| skyscrapers and far away to the south
see the low Lake Ontario shore line
of the land of liberty. But that is as
close as she may approach it. Her
exile, thanks to the law of 1921 for
| bidding the re-entry of any person
who has ever been deported, is COM
plete.
Receives Many Friends.
Emma has a multitude Of friends
and relatives under the Stars and
| Stripes, and If she cannot go to them
! they carf come to her, and since her
arrival in Toronto she has been hold
ing a continuous reception. Among
| her visitors have been her sister, Mrs.
| Conant, and nephew, DIR. Conant. of
| Rochester; her brother, DIR. Goldman,
an ex-ray specialist of Chicago; Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin Capes of st. Louis
and many others.
Another day that RED Emma" eel.
ebrated was December 81. the fourth
anniversary Of her departure from
Soviet Russia, for IL Emma is as outs
with capitalistic America she is
equally at outs with Communistic
Russia. 1t was one of the great trag-
edies of her life when she found the
tyranny of revolutionized Russia, her
native land, to be the greatest tyranny
Of all.
Emma Goldman is proceeding by
easy stages across Canada. She plans
to visit Winnipeg, Vancouver and any
other city that will listen to her mes
sages. At present she is staying on
indefinitely in Toronto. holding court
in a suite of two rooms on the third
story Of a business block at No. $50
Spadina avenue.
Her activities. in Toronto largely
shun politics and economics. Her at
mosphere is distinctly literary one.
Ibsen, the Russian drama and other
artistic subjects furnish the texts for
a course of lectures she is delivering.
Good sized audiences hang on her
words while she discourses on Griboy.
edev and other obscure figures in Rus
s1a's literary annals. Occasionally she
may be found in second-class cafe
surrounded by an admiring group of
Russians, Italians and Germans. On
Sundays she speaks to large audiences
in Yiddish on Maxim Cork and al.
lied topics.
Has New Husband.
It is 81 years since she first saw the
light Of day at Kovno. 1t Is As wears
since, as a slip Of a girl of II, she
first brought her disturbing ideas to
America, and almost that long since
she married Jacob Kersner in Roch.
ester.
Now she has a new husband. James
Cotton. q British miner, to whom she
was welded last year. Cotton con.
tinues to toll in the black pits Of
Wales, while his wife has come to To
ronto to lecture on Ibsen and Griboy-
edev. One thing the Cotton marriage
has done for her. 1t has given her
the privilege OF British citizenship.
She has no idea of using her new.
found British citizenship to try to
effect an entrance to the United
States. She regards her exile from
that country as permanent and in.
| evitable. But my presence in Can.
ada" she points out, gives many
American friends who have not seen
me for years a chance to visit me"
No question has been raised about
interfering with her sojourn in Can.
ada. If she remains here six months
she Will as British citizen automati.
cally attain the full rights of anv
Canadian citizen.
She is now no wild-eyed dishevelied
bomb thrower. She is as orthodox
looking as Queen Victoria, whom she
resembles In stature. She comes to
canada under the highest auspices.
| She carries a letter of Introduction
from the British Drama League. a
literary and also a very aristocratio
body. It's president is Lord Howard
| de Walden; among its vice presidents
are the Earl of Crawford and Raj.
cares. Viscount Burnham. Arnold
Bennett, Sir John Martin Harvey. Sir
Michael Sadler and Sir Barry v.
Jackson.
Praises Sir Barry jackson.
"Sir Barry Jackson" said she, twas
knighted last year and If ever / be.
| lieved in knighthood believed in that
one. 1t was he who established the
Birmingham Repertoire Theater and
1t is due to him that little theaters
have sprung up all over England. II
was he who first played Hamlet in
modern clothes
She was asked if there was not
some Inconsistency in an Anarchist"
handling Tolstoi rather than INT.
| Ideas" said she, "are the greatest
| of bombs. l never preached bomb
Throwing because l do not believe in
urging other people to do what I
would not do myself"
Her mission in Canada, she said,
is to spread dramatic ideas. 'The
drama" said she, "is a powerful in
strument for social change
Did she intend making her perma.
nent residence here?
'I don't think So" she replied. st
don't believe I would like 1t here.
would rather stay in the south of
France. I lived in Provene, in sight
of the snow-capped Alps, for SIS a
week"
| Her present concentration on the
drama followed year of anti-3ol-
shivist activity in England after her
disillusoned departure from Russia.
] Jazz. she says. ts the latest word
In AuarchiSn