Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection »"B»mHi Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection ruon-—that I saw promise of good to come. Young United States I wish I could say that those promises have been entirely ful Beckons Emnfa Goldman, filled. Alas, social evils are still at large in the world, and the Deported Seven Years AgoUnite d States has a- large share of them. The reaction as an after math of the war is everywhere try ing to crush the best that has been rvifXQ***- achieved. . Tn America reaction seems to bel !F? the order of the day and the. so-1 cial Babbitts continue to be deacij weight upon the efforts of Amen-t ca's creative spirit. . But the seeds of idealism of! economic justice, of the quality^of oibTdH human spirit, planted h$ the few are bearing fruit in everyfield o f thought and action. And. since I SSISSI flatter myself in having a part »n the pioneer work of cultural life in the United States, it is but nat ural I should wish to come back and see with my own eyes whati progress has been made. I believe in youth. I love youth and its desires for expression j America Is young. Fncle Sam Still Uuconth. I know full well- how crude and uncouth America still is. Bull also know that adolescence can be naught else. And young America | is still disgracefully experimental, rash, brutal, worshipful of every kind of tin idols. It persecutes the idealist, goes wild over a prize fteht Queen Marie, a sensational murder trial or some scandalous divorce proceedings with the same abandon as the adolescent boy who Ses a tin can to the tail of a cat He loves to play the game of the wild Indian who tortures and kills bis enemies, but over and above its Rochcstcrian, after years of denounc (Molt—Emma Goldman, for met wild earmarks America has the h she was deported to £*«** *"*« %n institutions, for whtc boldness and bearing of youth permission to enter the United Stales , ti in Canada seeking whfch countries held in the groove ars a taken a husband. James Cotton. Scot sifter denouncing marriage, she has of tradition lack so woefully. . M mtreal b\ a representative of A c,A tish coal miner. She was fontravw Yes. indeed. America is verj rite for The Timcs-Vruo>. Service, and en- •' ' '»{• young, but as long as it retains its V It may ornate some to learn thai the thoughtful conch i \ fascinating spirit of adventure and -lider attrition for the United States.,0 Emma Goldman has ^hes headlong into the unknown mind "in bulk b sluggish and not /rVwnvrieh*. NBA Bt fVtOe.) tUftre is hope for it. The future easily moved. _ is with the creative spirit of the ta in America have become I have had two birthplaces. In Interested in the salvation of my American people, with those who, Russia I was born physically. Tori with the Idealist who strives aoul. They want to know if I am America was the wene of my bitter, or whether I have grown for economic and social freedom ] spiritual birth. And that is far not with those who wish to bind mellow with years and disillusion more important than the birth of ing experience. the future, by dead hand of the | flesh- It means a great ******PaThese factors, together *"h thel Still more, they are curious to family is there. I have man>, Iknow what force* pull me back many staunch friends and com many friends. rades I have left behind and my to my erstwhile country. Saw Promise of Good. I am not bitter. Many good ow^t/wrvvan family, so beautifully devoted When I came to the United all through the weary years bind people are Inclined to confuse bit States In 18M. the country was an terness with the impatience ,of an me to America and pull me back as by a thousand threads. idealist for immediate results inabuses went unchallenged; or II struggles waged against definite They were questioned it was by the social wrongs. I confess I was very few whose voices sounded very impatient in the past and, it like the cry tn the wilderness. I am less so now, It is not because It was only after many years I no longer see the evils I have of bitter effort at awakening what been fighting against all my life. I knew must be potent in the coun Rather It Is because the world- try— besldetheworanl~ shattering events since 1914 have convinced me that the human "TBI Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
Vital in Every Domain. Knows What's Real. Feminism's Fight Not Vain, Woman today is perhaps the From the vantage point of his most vital force in every domain European reaction, the American Emma {W4p>«nj .Conclusionof huma n thought and endeavor. youth is now able to see with a Whether it is the devitalizing ef clearer eye what is real and what Note: Emma Goldman's varied ca fect of the horrors of war upon a isfictitious i n his own land. He It is not so long ago that we is learning that there Is another reer' has veered from violent denunwere assured by leading feminists great many men I do not know. I ciations of America and of marriage \ only know that most men of the I side to the glowing picture painted that their creed would purify poli by Fourth of July speeches. He is to her Present position in Montrealtics , abolish war, do away with ail professional middle class in Eu- \ Can., where, as a married woman, rope have lost their grip on life, j now able to put his finger en the social evils, and create entirly new many evils which earnest men and shet asks to be readmitted to the They seem to have no faith org relations between the sexes. To women in the United States have United States. There is still anotherday, n o intelligent feminist would idealism left. To use a L< reudian* paradoxical phase of her life's de expression, most men today seem to been combating for so long. indulge In such silly talk. They There is no blinking the fact velopment—from her old Position ofhav e learned first, that agelong suffer from an inferiority complex. militant feminism she has come to Or, is it hurt pride that they can that youth everywhere is in a fer abuses cannot be done away with ment, in revulsion against old take a coolly critical view of womanby th e casting of a vote. no longer play the brave knight suffrage.^ In this article^ the third and protect woman from living as ideas, old habits, old values-— And what is more important, against a world which is presided of a series of five, are presented thehery have learned that woman's dangerously as they themselves | opinions on this subject of abound have lived? over by toothless old men and i economic and social emancipation spiritually withered old ladies. In I ing interest—written by the great• iag-s closely bound with the general At any rate, most men seem to j itator herself exclusively for NEA be lost, "out of a job," as it were. vain, they have sealed America; struggle for human emancipation hermetically against the contami-; Service and The Times-Union. — that complete independence They do not know what to do with | ttochegtor Public Library themselves in the presence of their,] nation of fresh and invigorating for man as well as woman will Ideas, come only with the entire change erstwhile inferiors. (Copyright64, Couhsu,1926, Nea Service . Alive, Eager and Active. Youth, like love, laughs at locks' If one bears in mind the sweep- I of our present social structure and and antiquated immigration laws.' a proper economic revaluation of Not so the women I have met inl ing prophecies of the "Woman's I Europe. They impresed me as j Youth has other ways of fraterniz- I Rights" women as to the miracles! individual and collective worth. ing with the awakened generation Nevertheless, the heroio strug completely changed in their physi feminism was going to perform, cal, mental, spiritual and emotion in Europe. It has social ideas in once woman had the right of suf- gle made by women for so many common, literature, the drama, years in America and Europe has al qualities—a new and virile type of womanhood, much more alive, painting, music. All speak a com certainly not been in vain. If she mon language and sing the same is denied equal renumeration for eager, active and free than men. Many factors have contributed to jj Emma Goldman as a Young inspiring songs. The foremost the work she is doing she has been dramatist in the English language able nevertheless to prove that she 1 create the modern type of woman, Woman. the most vital factor being sex is the young American, Eugene can make good. There is no pro college boys, whom I knew in the|; O'Neill. With him are scores of fession or trade, not even swim solidarity among women. Neces past to be interestd only in prize! sity taught them at an early staih} young men and women, who do ming across the English Channel, fights, baseball rowdyism at radical?vita l and telling work in the coun which is alien to woman. in their struggle that the slave ha^ meetings and the doubtful pleasure never been freed by his master and; j try. They have Imagination, fire, Finer Dexterity. of taking the places of striking* daring. And the same holds good Thus I learned while in Germany that his emancipation could only b workers. brought about by the spirit of soli-i of the young generation in the rest that women in the metal industry Verily, the present generation In | of the world. Even in China., the- during the war showedfiner dexter- darity between his fellow slaves America, I though, must have un So, too, the sol darity of i youth is helping to uproot the during the war showed firm dex dergone considerable changes since paralyzing traditions and customs terity in the making of delicate in among women has, I think been, a the day when young students drove tremendous impetus and encoifr-?| in the land. struments than men. That women out the gentle Eugene Debs from Frivolity Fortunate. during the wolrd cataclysm not only agement in their struggle to assert IINe w Haven, and Ann Arbor boys lEmmathemselves i n theiGoldmanr right to their' | "But," say the wiseacres, "youth could but did perform the most dif tried to break up my meeting. is reckless, frivolous, without sta ficult tasks while the men were place in the world—their right to I found the group of young men be themselves. bility. It has.no roots in the past." bleeding on the battlefield need Champions foregathered in the rooms of a Fortunately, how else is youth to hardly be emphasized at this late fellow student after the lecture to becomthe " intense a factoe strugglr for eprogres for greates andr date. Cause Of Youthentertai n me and fire questions on innovationfreedom an?d Onlbeautyy thos. e grown gray Yes, women have made good. No theieverry owimaginabln countrey ansubjecd Europt ate mehad. and stale would attempt to dampen ta-Mi, .1 . • . • - The young generation will have longer will anyone dare to insist Thecreated—keenly were welly reaalivd eI nt oal thl the presse bes;t I thnoe interferenceardor of youth—censur. It is note onlandy that her only place is in the home ing social problem of our time, and suppres"knockins alg la ttha thte makedoor,s" ifot ri sbreadt breakh to waste her substance as domestic Of Today j I .singularly free frOm the provin oinf gvision it wit, gaieth theyflourish, of spirit, thkeee ncras de-h1 drudge or sex commodity. She has cialism and the priggishness which lighandt th ine thbane gdange of jazr zo fwhic lifeh, anbyd thine (Note: Emma Galdman retains the broken through her gilded cage and used to cramp the bodv and^pirlt way is itself the symbol of youthful youthful spirit, she insists, in spite is now out in the world to take her £fAjri£g^p ^abHCoV-ffianr^ears folly and abandon. of struggles _ and disillusionments. share of responsibility as well as to No dfeuH>r?^heii>j contact with Those of us who have retained a She has modified her old denuncia e demand her right to its achieve Euro»ofcte*$w much." to awaken youthful spirit will rejoice in the tions of America and seeks to re ments. and broaden the American youth. regeneration of youth in the world enter the country. She has compro Advanced American women have Travel is a better medium of edu and will bid it hail and godspeed. mised on matrimony to the extent of done that long before the war, but cation than college. It helps one (Copyright, 1828.) it is only since then that the women entering wedlock though still antagto climb down from one's exalted abroad are coming into their own. onistic to the custom. She see* thepositio n of the "most chosen land There are very few "Gretchens," promise of woman suffrage unrealand people on this planet." It clinging, yielding, obedient and ised. But she hopes on, with her makes one see that there are submissive, in Germany today. Nor spirit stilly young. Here, in the othersfourth, rich In culture and" experi Emma Goldman In action on a •g| are women in England learning of of : a series offive marticles, isence her, wh o can teach us much, If soap box in years cone by. H life and social conditions by means opinion of the rising generation,we will but bring to them a recep of secrecy and subterfuge. Openly written exclusively for NEA Servicetiv e mind. And the events since frage and equality In the profes and frankly do they declare their and The Times-Union.) 1914 at home and abroad have sions, one would have to admit that gen- right to whatever knowledge and Shortly after my arrival in Eng* made the American youth much the results of feminism are any experience there is in the world. land two years ago, a group of more receptive than was the thing but commensurate with the ||| gtruggl And even in France, women, be American students invited me to eration preceding him. brave fight made by women for sides the right of love, in which address the American Students their emancipation. they have claimed mastery, are be Club at Oxford. This surprised me . whicwordginnintherwomeplayinmorbecomeehs n egwome artha demanthakeenltesoe n wel grav appreciatnpary idldl th alivetae ths worl sociaieemenflirtationsn t eoattentio th d.lththa eovee problemIt neenworld' r lif, othenhav d etha oifesrst not a little, coming from American Central Library of Rochester} munis andt Monroecourt intrigu Countye an ·d Historicthe Scrapbooks Collection 1 squabble for power, for the trans Dictators Are enaced fer of the dictatorship from Com- The story winds up with a [ rade Stalin to "'omrades Trotzky, graphic word picture of the scene Zinoviev and company, in the death chamber at Auburn By Thirst For Power, Yet, the present crisis has great Prison, where Czolgosz, strapped significance. It is openly voicing fo in the electric chair, was deaf to resEmma, Goldman what has been intensely felt by the a warden's cajolery and in his flffe rest of the country—the desperate dying breath, asserted that '
"The high priestess of anarchy" who spent her youth in Rochester and still has relatives here, is shown dictating the last of her memoirs to her secre tary, also a former Roches- terian. Emma now lives in France. She left America a dozen years ago by request. Probably Uncle Sam's ears are burning as the famous radical writes her story. Emma never minced Three years ago as she basked in the warm Mediterranean sun in words. front of her tiny white cottage on the French Riviera, Emma Goldman, deported Rochester anarchist, told interviewers: "I haven't the slightest desire to return to America before I die." EMMA GOLDMAN EMILY HOLMES COLEMAN international Newsreel Photo Today Miss Goldman was in Toronto where she was reported seek ing admission to the United States under President Rabsevelt's Then, even should the visa be the country, inciting strikes and amnesty proclamation. y Emma Goldman, who developed granted, Miss Goldman, because of; bloody labor uprisings which on, from a timid seamstress in a | | her past record, would be required ' Rochester clothing factory to a j many occasions landed her behind | to face a special immigration board \ prison bars. fiery anarchist deported for trying 1 of inquiry before entry would be jj to block conscription during the j ! permitted, according to Inspector | Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of war, today was reported seeking , President McKinley, told his cap Return to America j Fogarty. to re-enter the United States. Toronto reports indicated Miss tors he had been influenced in his I Dispatches from Toronto, where Goldman had been told she might act by writings and speeches of j she is today, indicated the elo i get permission to lecture in the the Rochester firebrand. Miss Gold- ' quent Red of another generation Said to Be Sought j United States if she confined her man was arrested but released I would like to make a lecture tour j speeches to literary subjects, but after two weeks without prosecu in her adopted land which she | said she refused to consent to tion. once branded as "the least demo j "wearing a gag." Miss Goldman After tumultuous years of agita cratic of all countries." By Emma Goldman today denied making this statement tion, with frequent visits to Roch Hopes and reality may be far Miss Goldman came to Rochester,-!; ester, Miss Goldman ran afoul fed different for, as Chief Immigration from Kovno, Russia, with her par eral officials for obstructing the but proceded at once to Soviet Rus the wife of James Colton, a Welsh ; Inspector Henry W. Fogarty of ents at the age of 17, in 1886. For I draft. She was fined $10,000 and sia, the Utopia of Miss Goldman's miner. After two peaceful years Rochester said today, "there are a two years she worked in a clothing I sentenced to two years in the Jef preachings. ( there she settled down on the lot of hurdles ahead before Miss factory. During that time she mar ferson City Fenitentiary. Her com A warm welcome was accorded French Riviera to write her auto-j Goldman can put a foot over the ried Jacob Kersener. panion, Berkman, was sent to the the pair, but another six months border." The girl's anarchistic tendancies I Atlanta Penitentiary. found Miss Goldman leaving the biography. As Inspector Fogarty explained, I flamed into a "spiritual rebirth" | In an interview at her little cot Following her release from prison, land of the hammer and the sickle a deported alien must receive per i following the hanging of the Hay-| tage near Saint Tropez in 1931 she deportation proceedings against the —by request. She had found Bol mission from the Secretary of ' market bombers in Chicago, and the | declared she was grateful to Uncle pair were begun. Berkman was shevism a "forlorn failure" and had I Labor before even filing applica j young bride quit her job and her| Sam for having sent her abroad ordered deported and Miss Gold not hesitated to say so. She wrote tion with an American consul for j! husbana to launch a career of rad- 1 and hadn't the slightest desire to man abandoned her fight to re the system had robbed the Russian I an immigration visa. With immi |i ical activities which made her | see America again before she died. main here. people of the little freedom they I gration quotas drastically reduced, I famous on both sides of the At- hart had under the czar. Miss Goldman's mother died here i these visas are extremely difficult | lantic. With almost 200 other aliens, Again with Berkman she wan-j in 1923. Her sister, Mrs. Lena to obtain even should the secre | Teamed with Alexander Berkman, I Miss Goldman and Berkman were dered from country to country in I Commins, lives at 184 Caroline j tary's permission to apply be | her new common-law mate, she shipped out of the country on the Europe preaching her doctrines. In Street. granted. | toured the length and width of fltranspor t Buford, Dec. 21, 1919. The 1926 she appeared in Toronto as pair was disembarked in Finland, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic— Scrapbooks Collection "What? ' in whaf should have been a warning tone. The reporter re HO'S AMXRYOF EMMA? * peated. "You ask Emma Goldman that?" "sweat shop" at ten hours a da she thundered, and even at that rWS that Emma Goldmcttrwidely known radical, is to for $2.50 a week. distance it was a mighty blast. be permitted to return to the "United States for a stay few months after her arrival, Miss Goldmhn shf; married Jacob A. Kersner, then "That I should care for comfort, ninety days is interesting but of no great consequence. that it should make any difference Rochester knows her quite intimately. about twenty-six and earning $6 a to me . . ." She is picturesque—a forceful, magnetic speaker. week in a clothing factory. Emma Is Still Fi3y There came a pause. The re But anyorte who would construe this brief visit as any also worked in several shoe fac porter launched an inquiry about tories, becoming more and more thing resembling a menace to the country would be likely to H resentful of the wages and condi the status of anarchism, Miss Gold Emma Q{ Old be frightened by the pursuit of his own timid shadow. tions under which she labored man's possible campaign for Tom There was a time, though, when— here. Mooney, the social program. G* Court SU ,/,H>f But that was back in the old, stilted days when its life In her rutobiography, "Living My By MARGARET FEAWLET "I am sorry," she stormed, "I Life," published in 1931 by Alfred cannot talk about such a subject moved slowly and it was unpopular to be "agin the gov Still the stormy petrel of a "too A Knopf, she describes her meeting as anarchism on the telephone, i ernment." smug world" is Emma Goldmen, with friends of her family here and am busy, there are many friends apostle of anarchism, who will re The Rochester radical not only embraced the terrify of her horror in the absorption in in the house. Good night." turn to the United States and Roch ing cult of anarchism, but took provoking delight in the 1 money and material things which ester about Feb. 1. History of Deportation they expressed. title of "Red Emma." Shocking conservatives was her spe Her only escape from the mon- Conversation with Miss Goldman Miss Goldman, advocate of the cialty. 1 otony of life and the daily grind started out as a matter-of-fact social revolution, was for many ;|j of work under horrible conditions, telephone interview with her in the years known as "Red Emma" be A tradition of fear was built about her. she wrote, was on Sundays when Toronto apartment in which she cause of her anarchist teachings. When a subject grew stale she rebelled against some she was accustomed to go to Ger- has been awaiting news of the Deported in December, 1919, for ob thing else. Before the country recovered from the jumpi- mania Hall and meet with a group | Labor Department's decision to ad structing the World War draft she ness of the World War she was deported to Russia as a of German Socialists. mit her for a 90-day period. was sent to her homeland, Russia. It was there one Sunday, accord* "Yes," she murmured in a pleas Prepared to work in the Commun dangerous radical. ing to her autobiography, that she ant voice, deep, rich, and undoubt ist state she soon departed, de But she wasn't happy in that country which adopted heard Johanna Greie describe the edly still persuasive on the- plat nouncing the Soviet program asH many of her ideas of government. There was nothing to famous Chicago Haymarket trials form despite her 64 years. "This tyrannical. Since that time she has of 1886. That lecture had a marked is Emma Goldman, I'll be glad to wandered over Europe," making sev rebel against. Besides, the Russians wouldn't stand for it. effect on the youthful worker and answer any questions I can." eral unsuccessful attempts to gain So she left them flat. But the fact that she is now in was one of the sparks that is said "I, myself, know nothing as ye*; admittance to the United States. Canada, where they can see red if there is any sign of to have launched her on her stormy about coming to the United States, Since 1927 her efforts have been on it, is proof that she is far from being dangerous. - career. only what I read in the papers. 1 the grounds^of British citizenship- Stormy Career She began to give voice to her wait word from my manager and since she married in thaF yer,r Rochester will b-J.e gla d to see Emma again. ?*~ resentment against wages and con my committee. They are arrang Jaroea'Colton, a Welsh miner. ditions under which she worked ing my meetings so I think I shall Bffn in Kovno, Russia (nnw Recalled as Exile Returns to U. S. and finally quarreled with her hus come early in February." Lithuania) June' 27, 1869, the band. She left him in 1891 and Glad to let Back daughter of a Russian Jewish fam A gray-haired little woman of six The nation was in a furore at the went to New York—there to begin Of course, she is glad to be com ily, Miss Goldman came to the. ty-four, today, for the first time in time and Supreme Court Justice a career which has made her in ing back to the country which has United States about 1885. The f if ten j'ears, set foot on United John M. Davy of this city impaneled ternationally famous. many associations for her, a coun Goldman family settled in Roches States soil at Buffalo, scene of the a special grand jury here to ivesn- At her deportation proceedings, try which she has scorned and ter. assassination of an American tigate any possible connection be Emma based her claim of United which had answered her scorn wirn Here Emma worked In a tailor President and a crime that blaz tween Miss Goldman and Czosgolz. LV States citizenship on her marriage deportation. She'll be especial?y shop and shortly after settling in oned her name around the world Although Emma was not in the to Kersner. Kersner's citizenship glad to see her sister, Mrs. Sam Rochester married Jacob Kerstner. as "Red Emma, High Priestess of - city at the time, every relative of had been invalidated in 1909 by uel Cummins of Caroline Street But she had begun to hear of the Anarchy. ' hers and every friend was brought former Judge John R. Hazel iii after the lapse of years. She will Chicago Haymarket bombings of She is Emma Goldman, bound for before the special grand jury and Federal Court at Buffalo. Judse probably also want to pay a viiit 1886 and was inflamed with inter Rochester and "home," but not the questioned. It ended with the jury Hazel ruled that Kersner was not a to the David Hochsteln School of est in the social revolution. So same Emma, who, when twenty-one, being unable to connect Emma with naturalized citizen because he had Music erected in memory of her she separated from her husbana left this city with passions inflamed the assassin in any manner. Czos been in the country only two years nephew, the brilliant violinist kiH*t' and went to New York to engage against all social order and with golz was executed a short time and was but nineteen when he ob in the World War. on a stormy, career. vows to devote her life to an later. tained his citizenship papers in "I shall be glad, too. to see N*w She was associated for many archy. HERE LAST IN 1919 18S4. York." she added, "Yes. it will be years with Alexander Berkman, im- UTTERANCES TEMPERED Emma Goldman last visited Roch Emma had been in Soviet Russia good." • prisoned for 17 years because of For more than forty years she ester in 1919 when she was being only a few years when she turned She was thinking of tae meetings I his attempt to kill Henry Frick in lung to those vows, but her taken from Missouri State Prison against the rule of the Commu in lower New York, the associa ; the Pittsburgh steel strike of 1892. struggles in nearly every country to New York City. At that time nist Party there and denounced tions with other anarchist com An apostle of free love, one tf of Europe including Russia, com she had completed a term for in them. In 1926 she said: rades, including "Sasha," Alexan the first advocates of birth con bined with the years, have some citing seditious spirit and was sent "The political institutions In der Berkman, who was deported trol, Mis3 Goldman has attacked what tempered her once fiery ut to NPW York for deportation to Rus Russia today are worse than they from the United States with Miss and been severely attacked for her terances. sia as an obstructionist of the war were under the ciar. There is Goldman in 1919. She may also be numerous writings and speeches, Possibly that little, homeward draft. not one breath of freedom of wanting to visit Union Square one of which landed her in Black- hound woman, recalled the time Emma came to Rochester with thought, of action or of initiat where she made a speech in 1892 well's Island Prison. But as soon President William McKinley was her sister. Helen, in 1887, two ive there now." for which she served a "term on as she was out she was preaching shot and killed by Leon Czosgolz, months after her parents made their Condemned by the Communist Blackwell's Island. the abolition of all government and Polish radical, at the Pan-American home here under conditions far dif Party, Emma left Russia and spent Hits Wrong Note in 1901 was questioned when Le in Exposition in Buffalo, September ferent from those in their native I the remaining years lecturing and All was pleasant. Then the re Czolgosz shot President McKinley 14. 1901. Russia. | organizing in other countries of porter erred. She asked a borgeoise at Buffalo. Police established the fact that She was born in Kovno, June 27, Europe. question as to whether Miss Gold Convicted of obstructing the Czosgolz once lived in Rochester, 1S70, and was seventeen when she In 1925 she married Colton, man was anticipating any of the World War draft Miss Goldman that he had heard Emma lecture came here and went to work i WKelsh miner, but eight years ical American comforts of was sentenced to two years im and that he was one of her follow etc. Miss Goldman er.*. It was never established, how later she admitted that she had portedprisonmenFollowin. g t heirn releasJeffersoe shn eCity wa,s Mode. everEmm,a thapersonallyt Czosgol. z had ever met timeseen. him only twice during that Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
By JOHN GUTTENBERGr After fifteen years in exile, Emma Goldman, internationally known radical, returned to thej Rochester she once called home atj 2:13 p. m. today. Sight of relatives and loyal: friends, waiting her arrival from! the Canadian border at the Newj York Central station, caused thef AS 15-YEAR so-called "High Priestess of An-f archy" to drop, momentarily, thet stolid reserve which she wears as a defense against detractors. Mrs. Lena Commins, No. 184 Caroline Street, sister of the "Red Emma" whose tirade^ against cap-! Greeted by Relatives, Friends j ital and organized government re-] at Station; Entered U. S. at j suited in deportation in 1919, was i the frist to meet Miss Goldman, at Buffalo This Morning the station here. She said: "Sister! It is so good . . ." "Red Emma" was red no more. She was a bit pinkish, in her sen- *4--vw -. Or RETURNS TO CITY AFTEER AR-EXILE
j .eminent agents pursued her years ly when she declares herself un it in. operation before I should ago. changed by the years in her radi tion inspector accepted her visa as timentalism, as her voice choked feel qualified to discuss it and its "I am too old to go back on my cal spirit, declares "everyone is a Mrs. James Cotton and her ninety- with the semblance of a sob and ideals," she said. "Anarchism is radical, in privat relation to organ ramifications intiVligently. No day leave to enter this country. she clutcher Mrs. Commins to her not a matter of pride. It is a ized outhority." doubt, it is a colossal and signifi Then he passed on to others. shoulder. matter of conviction." She claims as her function in life cant experiment. AIDED BY FRIENDS A brother, Herman Goldman, No. Siie is convinced that rhe most "working toward an anarchism "I may not be permitted to talk significant advances in the world which will extend beyond private Ii4 Laburnum Crescent, pushed for about it in public, but you may Her return to America was made during the last two decades have lives to that of the entire world." ward. Other kin and friends—a possible through the efforts of been made in the field of educa Would she have been a radical if rest assured that my eyes and small but partisan coterie—sur tion. She said: she had not endured the sweat shop ears and mind will be alert to American friends, she said, on her rounded Miss Goldman to wish her arrival ir. Buffalo. Roger Baldwin "We no longer believe teaching conditions of Rochester inN 1889? well before she was whisked learn what I can about it. to be a question of 'bringing in.' Absolutely. of the American Civil Liberties away to family visits with the Com She will remain in Rochester un Education today is at its all-time "The transition from the music, Union, and a committee, including mins and the Goldmans. zenith. . Education in its best the literature and the drama of til aboiit 11 p. m. today when she among others Prof. John Dewey, Her first of ninety days on sense means dissemination. St. Petersburg—the Russian cul will leave for New York City, Sinclair Lewis, Fannie Hurst. Sher American soil, granted on a special "I've learned that if you don't tural background—to the factory wood Anderson and Dr. J. Holmes, visa from President Roosevelt, was where she will start a lecture tour know the obvious, you won't find life of America was too great a aided her, she declared. a full one for the feminist leader. she expects to take her through the remote." blow even for a girl of fifteen,, One tiling she Avanted under She left Toronto at S a. m., after much of the country during thenine- "The High Priestess of Anar "If I have any nationalism stood. She came back "not bitter a lecture the night before, and ty days she will be allowed to re chy" stoutly denies that her ninety- spirit, it Is for America—the land against anyone.'' "You see," she reached the International Bridge at main here. day visa was obtained from any in which I received my inspira exclaimed. "1 believe in the prin 10:55 a. m. When immigration au ENTERS QUIETLY "bargaining"' with Uncle San. The tion to fight." ciple of letting people think for thorities examined her credentials. themselves so why should 1 be bit American consul in Toronto asked The foremost woman radical, There will be no politics dis she was just another visitor to the ter." her political beliefs as a matter of whose bobben hair, cigaret smok cussed in her lectures, she said, United States. "Had she seen Alexander Berk routine, Miss Goldman stated, but ing and birth control preachings and explained that her \subjects man recently?" Berkman was her DECLINES TO TALK did not insist that she promise to made her an object of popular will be concerning literature, art, history and drama. Her first Jtature companion for many years and like abstain from political or social dis scorn thirty-five years ago, is not She was unattended She sat will be in Dr. John Haynes Holmes her was deported as a dangerous cussions. weakening in her fight for femin alone in a day coach. She refused Community Church in New Yovk, radical. Her refusal to comment on such ism. to talk to interviewers. February 11. Yes, she saw Berkman in Nice, topics was due to her contract with Her first hour in the United PRAISES PRESIDENT The train carrying the France, the day she left there in the Pond Bureau for a nation-wide States—which had' packed her off woman, once known as "Red December for Canada. And she speaking tour, "Rod Emma" said. She describes as a "marriage of to Russia in 1919 to criticism of Emma," crossed .he Lower Arch added "our friendship is the kind Within an hour' after her arrival convenience" her union with James the war draft—was passed in Stolid Cblton, a Welsh miner, in 1925. The Bridge at Niagara Falls from Can that ends only with death." on American soil, she was the fiery contemplation, as her train steamed marriage enabled her to claim Brit ada at 10:50 a. m. and incisive commentator of old. from Niagara Falls to Buffalo. ish citizenship, she says. He still She was gazing calmly through a There, at noon, Miss Goldman's ASKS ABOUT MUSIC SCHOOL lives in South Wales. She main window of her coach as the train, There, at noon, Miss Goldman's She inquired about the Hochstein tains a residence on the Riviera. steaming slowly over the high, reserve cracked. Mrs. Leila Car- School of Music, endowed by Roch- Asked how it felt to be in Amer international structure flung across hart, No. 38 McKinster Street, long esterians as a tribute to her ica once more after fifteen years of the Niagara River gorge, rolled a friend of "Red Emma's" and her nephew, David Hochstein, who lost exile, she explained that she was onto American soil and came to companion in Berlin during the his life in the World War. tired after a lecture in Toronto last a stop. Summer of 1923, met her for the She smiled wanly when assured night and was "just beginning to Five immigration and customs ride on the Empire to Rochester that the Hochstein and Eastman get into the swing of being on inspectors, the usual quota, board and was greeted with warmth. Schools were providing musical American soil once more." ed the train as it hesitated for five HOLDS TO IDEALS Educations of many deserving ntu "The only information I have minutes before its nin into the dents. about President Roosevelt," she Niagara Falls station and then on The plump little gray-haired "George Eastman did that," she replied, in answer to another to Buffalo. woman, whose name is known in acknowledged wryly, "but didn't question, "is what I read in the With no more formality or lack every capital of the world, today he send our David, and many oth newspapers of formality then if she had been! ip no whit different —in her phil ers, to their death?" "I cannot tell you what I think j)one of the thousands of yearly] osophy—than she was when gov- Miss Goldman, who stares fixed of your 'New Deal.' I must see visivisitort s from Canada, an immigra- HW^HHW Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Also there to meet the traveler ceived German money ro nio<:
FEBRUARY 2, 1934 4fe Emma Goldman, Tired, Sad, Tries to Avoid Controversial Topics on Visittfith Relatives
Famous Anarchist Asserts Changes Mind, Extends All Who Love Liberty Stay Before Leaving Are Anarchists For New York After a nine-hour visit in Rocha ester, Emma Goldman arrived in By MARGARET FRAWLEY efforts to avoid controversial sub New York City today for the first A short, stocky woman, middle- jects, Miss Goldman told reporters time since she was deported in ged and looking more than a little on the train that her views on the 1919 and faced the cold inconveni social order are unchanged. tired, stepped down on the New ence of a taxicab strike, according "I am still an anarchist," she York Central station platform yes to dispatches. said. "I am the same. The world terday afternoon into the eager, has changed. That's why I haven't A labor agitator and internation waiting arms of her sister. had to. Everyone is an anarchist ally-known radical for more than Emma Goldman, internationally who loves liberty and hates op forty years, she waited for thirty famous anarchist and apostle of so pression. But not everyone wants minutes outside the Pennsylvania cial revolution, had come home. it for the other fellow. That is Station, with a platoon of police Miss Goldman brushed away the my task, I want to extend it to men ringed about her, while a pri tears. Yes, she said, she was glad the other fellow." vate limousine was summoned. to be home, but she spoke with a As to her reaction to President Told there was a strike, she glance at the smiling, tremulous Roosevelt and the NRA, Miss smiled. People came runing from face of her sister, Mrs. Samuel Cum Goldman said she might have an all parts of the station to ask other mins of 184 Caroline Street, and opinion three months hence, but people, "Who is it?" "th a hand clasping that of her now she only knows what she Migs. Goldman, or rather Mrs. brother, Herman, of 114 Laburnum reads in the newspapers. Going James Colton, according to her pass Crescent. At the mpment she into many industrial centers she port, was greeted affectionately by wasn't thinking of her 15-year exile will, she said, study conditions at her niece, Mrs. Stella Ballantine, from- America nor of the implica first hand. and the latter's son, Ian. tions of the 90-day stay granted Bitter Over Nephew's Death She also was met by Dr. John her by the Labor Department. She The Rochester home-coming was Haynes Holmes and James P. Pond, was concerned only with the few one of mingled joy and sorrow to the latter head of the lecture brief hours ahead with her family. Miss Goldman since her sister, bureau sponsoring the tour which Her first decision to go on to New Helen Hochstein, and her nephew, is expected to take her from coast York last evening she later Bavid Hochstein are no longer to coast before her ninety-day visa changed, announcing she would alive. About David Hochstein's expires. stay overnight and perhaps today. death in the World War,. Miss The famous Emma was clad in Face Tells Life Story Goldman expressed herself bitterly red—red dress, red woolen scarf At first glance Miss Goldman yesterday. She felt that a great and red coat. belies her formidable reputation. musician had been martyred in She is surprisingly short. In her war. She has always hated war. garnet-colored coat with its trim Emma Goldman, as she ap and her nephew she loved dearly. black collar and matching black peared yesterday alighting from With characteristic directness hat she might have been any a train at the New York she told reporters that her mar American matron. But her face is Central Station. riage to "James Colton, a Welsh arresting. It is lined for her 64 life in New York on February 11 in miner, had been for purposes of years, and, in repose, more than a the Community Church of which securing British citizenship. Asked little sad. The pale blue eyes are the Rev. John Haynes Holmes D. if she had seen Alexander Berk penetrating, the eyeglasses seem to D., is minister. Perhaps, she said, man, her associate in the anarchist bristle. Her mouth is expressive she wi'l lecture in Rochester when cause for many years, she said she of many moods, curving softly in she returns later for a longer had seen him in Nice in December, response to inquiries from relatives visit with relatives and friends. just before leaving for Canada.— and friends, snapping impatiently Her subjects, and her itinerary are "Our friendship is the kind that but still politely at the queries of in the hands of a committee. ends only with death," she added. newsmen, closing firmly at all ref One thing, Miss Goldman wanted Miss Goldman crossed the Ameri erences to controversial subjects. made clear: She was coming back can line at Niagara Falhr at 10:50 For Miss Goldman will avoid the without bitterness toward anyone- o'clock after the most cursory ex controversial during her three Frank as always, despite her amination of her papers by cus months stay in the United States. toms inspectors. She was met in She will begin her lecture series Buffalo by a Rochester friend, Mrs. on literature, drama, and her own Leila Carhart of 38 McKinster Street. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection s HOME AT THE END OF THE EXILE TRAIL 'Red Emma'Goldman Finds Her Theories Now Vogue By RALPH P. YOUNG' . . . > f A scared little boy stood in the corner of the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition' in Buffalo thirty-two years ago gripping his father's hand. The President of the United^ States had been shot a few min the ears of that small hoy when utes before and an ugly crowd was ever his elders assembled and demanding the life of the assassin with it was linked another name— —an "anarchist." that of Emma Goldman of Roches In the months that followed the ter. For years that name was used word anarchist was dinned into to frighten small boys—and even more so their elders. Last evening, the writer, the small boy grown stout and bald, shook hands with the terror of his youth—the same Emma Goldman, a plump, gentle, near-sighted, elder ly woman who is afraid—of all things—of newspaper men. Miss Goldman (Mrs. James Col ton in her passport) met only one i.ewspaper man after her arrival at the home of her brother, Her man Goldman of No. 114 Laburnum Crescent. Tired by her trip from Toronto, wearied by the persistence of re porters who met her at the border and pressed her for interviews she was pledged not to give, she de clined to meet newspaper men or photographers during her stay at her brother's home. But she remembered a promise given in Toronto that she would receive this writer at her brother's home. Exiled from the land which had been the scene of her battles for social justice, she came back yes terday, by grace of an order from President Roosevelt, to spend ninety days on American soil, visiting relatives and lecturing. Her visit to Rochester was brief. She left last night for New York to keep her first lecture engagement, but plans to return later in the month to lecture. Once hounded from the streets of Rochester when she attempted to speak, Emma Goldman has been invited to return and address its leading citizens. "I have been asked to speak before the City Club," she said. "When I come back, I'll be able to talk about other things. Now I am under pledge to my spon-
ALLEN LDMAN In Rochester first time since she was exiled from the United States n years ago, Miss Goldman, internationally. known radical, i in this exclusive picture with her thirteen- year-old nephew home of her brother, Herman Goldman, No. 114 Laburnum m Crescent. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
sors not to talk until my lec "But l never talked in the yet sense the change that has ture tour begins in New York." South," she said. "I was asked taken place. There must be some This terror of conservative citi to keep off the Negro problem, change for Presidents do not zens of a previous generation so I never would consent to go push the people, the people push CATCHING UPWrTH EMMA has lost none of the fire of other there the President. Mr. Roosevelt re years, but it is controlled. "I have traveled about America flects a change. AN invitation which has been extended by the Rochfesl er The first impression of a shy, so much that I really know it "I am no longer a radical. The City Club to Emma Goldman, internationally knd*m little old lady fades when she be much better than Americans who times have caught up with me. I anarchist, to be guest speaker at its meeting on March 17 gins to talk. She flashes quick have been born here and always will have to do something terribly different to get anyone makes interesting news. denial that she ever instigated acts lived here. One night at a din Not that there is anything sensational about it. ner in London Sinclair Lewis in to notice me now." of violence by so-called anarchists During the lecture tour Miss Goldman is making in the and then subsides to shrug her troduced me as the only 'real She smiled for the first time. ninety days which she has been authorized by the United shoulders and add: American' present." Asked if she hoped to revisit "But what difference does it Miss Goldman's once bobbed hair familiar Rochester scenes on her States government to remain in this country—a sort of a make?" is gray now and caught snuggly be return call, Miss Goldman sagged recess in her exile—she is speaking before organizations of Newspaper men bother her, she hind her ears. She wears glasses a bit. equal prominence. said, because they have built myths ar* insists on facing the camera "There are no familiar scenes Besides, this one has heard many liberals. about her. Crowds, even hostile directly because the light reflects to me," she said with a touch of Rather the interest lies in the fact that her invitation1' sadness. "I know little about ones, she has learned to handle. from them otherwise. She is par records a new measure of tolerance in Rochester. It gives Rochester. I had few friends "I have been blamed for nearly ticular about her camera posing. a chance to contrast the public attitude of today with that every act of violence that hap The right lens of the spectacles is here, you know. Outside of my of fifteen years ago. pened while 1 was lecturing years an eighth of an inch thick and is relatives there are only a few I - "I have not changed; the world has changed." ago," she said. "A lawyer friend revealed in profile photographs, so can remember as friends. But I'd of mine once said 'Emma Gold she avoids them. like to come back." The famous radical thus summarized the situation in man will be blamed for every act When she talks she pats her back "Will you discuss government an observation that was made following her return to the of violence for the last fifty years hair with an unconscious feminine or social problems in your lec United States, from which she was deported. and,for the next hundred years.' gesture. When the question bord tures?" Doesn't this incident prove it? "But he was wrong. Violence ers on forbidden ground she grips "No, I'll talk about literature Some of the radical views of the "Red Emma" of a ha become fashionable. There her fingers tightly and twists a and the drama. But of course generation ago, which aroused the natives, now appejar literature is broad and covers a has been so much of it in the flimsy handkerchief. about as shocking as the daring bathing costumes of thfet world no one thinks of blaming A question about Hitler brought variety of subjects. Words only me." a sudden twitching of the fingers. express the thought of the times, time. "Did you ever counsel viol "I lectured in Germany for so, if I discuss literature—and The public hasn't overtaken her yet. Possibly it nev< ence?" I asked. some time," she said. "The Nazis my book—I can say—Oh, well." will. But as for going a part of the way during the fifteej "Never. I was blamed for the were coming into power when I She shrugged and smiled again. years she has been across the oceantwtflS&rtlrlB invitatioi acts of those anarchists in Chi left. Yes, I saw much of Germany, So once more "Red Emma" may proves it. cago, although I was in Rochester but I can't express my opinion of be heard from, although my guess at the time of the riots and that sort of thing." is it won't cause much excitement. never knew any of them. But The gesture and tone implied Once she was put in jail for dis they threw me into jail when I what she left unsaid. cussing birth control. Now you can visited Chicago later." Did she think America had hear it in the pulpit. Being thrown into jail was no changed in fifteen years? She coun Once she smoked cigarets and novelty for the "Red Emma" of the* tered with a question: got "a rise" out of the neighbors; early part of the century. She oc "Do you think I could have now they all walk a mile for one. cupied many of the best jails in come here when Hoover was Once she advocated free love, the country—and many of the worst President—or anyone like him?" but Broadway has stolen her stuff, Emma Goldman Declares —she recalled. "Times have changed," she and made it expensive. Her lectures were never popular added, "but people must change, No, "Red Emma" no longer with conservatives. She voiced her too. I have kept in close touch scares little boys—nor fidgety old City Too Provincial to I opinions in several states. with America, but maybe I don't men. She's just a nice old lady. Be Made Her Residence "Rochester is too provincial to and in favor of birth control, de permit an interesting life." livered at the Labor Lyceum in With these words Emma Gold 1916, nearly resulted in her arrest. man, anarchist leader, today dis "The fact that I am now wel missed the report she might settle comed by one of your finest clubs down here if efforts of friends to reflects a more liberal and intelli induce the federal government to gent attitude," Miss Goldman said. extend her stay in this country "Birth control is now considered should prove successful. quite a respectable subject. It "One should live either on a should be.'' farm or in a big city," Miss Gold The former "Red. Emma" has ad man declared. "Everything be dressed gatherings in New Yor tween is provincial. There may be Philadelphia, Washington and Bal more comfort and security in timore since her return to thi Rochester, but that does not mean country under a temporary visa an interesting life. For that one six weeks ago. She was deported must have struggle." in 1919 for obstructing universal Miss Goldman arrived here from conscription and alleged seditious Detroit today to address leaders statements. from many walks of life at a Miss Goldman went to the home luncheohere. n meeting of thpreparednese City Clusb ooff her sister, Mrs. Lena Commln3 at Powers Hotel. Her last speech Central- Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection the room turned in slips concerne As for the New Deal, in answer ] with free speech and free press, to a query on the subject, Miss Liiy Helpe the justification for Russian dic Goldman retorted: tatorship, the New Deal. "That isn't a literary subject. The large audience applauded and [^ Washington permits me to talk To'Maleffirl even rose to its feet when William \ only on literary subjects. Of Pidgeon Jr. rose and in a speech course, to me literature is not MISMDMAT dripping with complimentary adjec something wrapped in parchment, An Anarchist fives expressed his enjoyment of it's alive. Miss Goldman's talk. United Labor Advocated "The hour is not an ordinary one," "Labor isn't united in this coun- Rochester Blamed by Emmah e concluded. "I feel privileged to ;j try. It should be, of course. The ARRIVES TODAY have heard Miss Goldman today and | trouble is when it tries to unite, Goldman Amid Cheers I am her debtor." the Communists come in and then And Eulogies ^\ j Conveys Her Sincerity instead of a united front, they're The internatonally famous rebel in front and the others are kicked .—— 5 |Vf>>7 against social order was a notable IN ROCHESTER back. By MARGARET FRAWLEY figure as she faced the room with "When I worked in this city, ten •——— With the ringing challenge that the flag of Erin draped over the hours a day for $2.50 a week, I "your city ai.d the action of the mirror at her back. A lock of iron- went to the owner and told him it state of Illinois in the Haymarket gray hair kept escaping rebelliously wasn't enough for life to say noth Exiled Anarchist to. riot made an anarchist of me," from the comb which held it in ing of an occasional book, a play, Emma Goldman came home to place. Her pale blue eyes behind or a flower. He said I had extrava- Rochester In triumph yesterday. the thick glasses were wide and ex grant tastes for a factory girl. Speak Sunday in Her address before the City Cluh pressive as she spoke, now slowly, "In 1916 I was arrested for lectur at Powers ' pacitlye now quickly as she was moved by ing on birth control, now a highly ice as the an idea she wished to convey. She respectable subject. They were the wore a dark blue dress with small Convention rjail-^ City Club hs- rut seen sinctoe best judges I ever had. They offered Franklin Delano Roosevelt as white collar and was unbelievably me a fine or two weeks in jail. I £ ^3)3 a ± short and rotund figure beside Pres governor of Nev* York came two took the jail sentence because I Emma Goldman, scheduled to years agi. She »vas received with ident Robert Tait of the Club. Cov had some lectures to prepare and ering a wide range of subjects un speak in Convention Hall Sunday men and women standing in her there's no place like jail for it. evening, yesterday notified friends honor, applauded heartily for her der the title "Living My Life," Miss Whenever I went to address a meet Goldman conveyed in a few lucid here that she will arrive in Roch attacks on tyranny and war, and ing, I carried a book because I ester late today. eulogized and cheered at the con sentences her sincerity, intellectual never knew when the meeting vigor, and a pervading humor. She is to talk on "The European clusion. would be broken up and I'd have Drama of Today." The meeting is Not only did the audience roar As to her opinions, these briefs to spend the night in the station are typical. sponsored by Rochester Section, with laughter at her frequent wit house." National Council of Jewish Women. ticisms, it stayed until nearly 3 "For addressing a meeting and As for her conclusions, Miss quoting Cardinal Manning I was It is believed that this will be o'clock to hear her. Indeed there Goldman said: Miss Goldman's last visit to Roch was little flinching when in re sentenced to Blackwell's Island. "Only liberty is worth fighting That was my university and I ester • before her three months- sponse from the floor by Rev. for. This is the job I'll keep at until stay In the United States ends. Frederick E. Reissig as to what learned more than young people I am either hanged or fall asleep are learning at the University of She wffl go in/o exile again Apr. Miss Goldman thought of the City in some other way." 30, ending her visit to the United Club, she said with her customary Rochester or elsewhere. I dis Seated at the speaker's table yes covered that it's poor education and States since her deportation for frankness. terday was a rebel of another sort, anti-war activities in 1919. Rebel Sees Progress poor environment that brings Mrs. Mary T. L. Gannett, 80. who people to prison. Forty years ago In a letter received here yester "Because I've accepted your fee pronounced the speech "the finest day,'Miss Goldman indicated that and invitation to address you that was a new idea, now it's ac I ever heard." Mrs. Gannett when cepted. All of you should go to her talk will not be quite as ex doesn't mean I've changed my she rose to take her bow spoke a clusively literary in character as opinion about the leisure class. prison. You'd learn. word for the child labor amend "Wars have never settled any its title would indicate. She has With my eyesight I can't see many ment. At the speakers' table also agreed, however, to confine her of you, not much beyond the first thing. They bring in their wake were Miss Goldman's sister, Mrs. worse evils. The treaty of Ver statements to "literature, drama. row. Please don't feel that I have Samuel Commins; her brother, and 'living my life'." made sacrifices, that I'm a martyr. sailles and the allies punished not Herman Goldman; and her friend, the Kaiser but the starving Ger Miss Goldman took occasion last I have followed my bent, lived my Mrs. William B. Carhart. "week in St. Louis to flay labor life as I chose, and no one owes man people. Today Hitler Germany Miss Goldman left last night for is the result. leaders whom she termed reaction me anything. I'm no more respec Detroit to continue her speaking ary. She told St. Louis audiences table than I ever was. It's you Tells Objection to Soviet engagements. Her stay in the "I'm not disillusioned with the that the American Federation of who have become a little more United States expires about May 1. Labor should "sweep out some ofl liberal, and it's never too late to Russian revolution. It was more profound than the French revolu Its old-fashioned methods and progress. You are progressing." Methusalehs, such as William if Miss Goldman's formal speech was tion. It articulated the needs of the Russian people. What I ob Green. Younger, more alert men, | the prelude to the questions which are its greatest hope." came from the floor and the jected to is the way in which the ruling party has usurped the Tickets for the meeting are on j crowded balcony. Banker, school sale at Seneca Hotel. master, worker, business man, they people's rights, eliminated the in took their turn in quizzing the telligentsia and professional groups, speaker and President Robert and set out to build a powerful C. Tait and Miss Goldman ware state. hard put to keep pace with them. "Fascism is growing, if you don't Charles H. Wiltsie wanted to take care you'll have it in Amer know about the threats of Fascism. ica. The masses bled by war feel Ernest R. Clark put philosophical Incurably ill. They run to every questions on anarchism, one of quack and they get the Mussolinis which drew fire from Miss Gold and Hitlers. man when she said governments "I don't care much for police, have never done anything but pro I have had too much experience whtecathsJamee ytt oyounjhavth whasee Lr stront.governments BreweisSeverawmmmm tgo bagainsre l voice dona t? te thd t theao n ebaceducat appeaweakk oefl, Thewitaringsuet hy. th ioughThtheine humaoneer t onl breakinst noy tha bclothes.policet calle gregulat e udwortp" guidemeyh trafficsmeetwhil ande. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection
Family, Friends Hail Emma Goldman's Visit Home V^f • ft<5 Gol Ask Roosevelt To butdKiiy HWven't shown ^rtey^Sn" put up a fight when the time comes." A group of Chicago college "prrj-I Russia and the United States are lessors has petitioned President to Miss Goldman the most Inter Roosevelt to permit Miss Emma esting countries in the world. She's Goldman to remain in the United I ben depprted from Russia. Never States, she disclosed here today. theless, she said, she remains in Deported fifteen years ago fori close touch with the political and her activities against war, the for economic condition there through mer Rochesterian is in this country I "underground communications." on a special thirty-day privilege and I Miss Goldman compared Pmsi- must leave April 30 unless the time I dent Roosevelt with Abraham Lin 'unit is extended or withdrawn, coln, saying: Tomorrow at 8 p. m. she will "I am willing to admit the ad make her final appearance in thisr vance of President Roosevelt city when she speaks on "The I over any other President since Drama of Europe" at a Convention!/ Lincoln. The others served only Hall meeting sponsored by thep the possessing class. Rochester Section, National Coun-t "Roosevelt is the first Presi cil of Jewish Women. dent in the United States to de Referring to her endeavor to re-^ clare the workers have the right main "among her friends and rela to organize and bargain collec tives," Miss Goldman, a guest at tively." | the home of her sister, Mrs S E I Her lecture tour, which has in Commons, of No. 184 Caroline! cluded many cities, has not been Street, said today: profitable, she said, but she has "Many friends, including a i reached many people. She ex number of Chicago college pro pressed particular pleasure to find fessors, have written and tele a "new awakening" among stu grapher President Roosevelt dents. asking him to allow me to stay This afternoon she visited Mrs here. He has been away on a Lela Carhart, No. 38 McKinster short vacation and probably Street, a friend who is ill at Gen wouldn't receive the mail until eral Hospital, and attended a tea! today. His answer is expected given by Mrs. Walter S. Meyers soon. No. 4 Oliver Street. and autographs "The professors heard me She will leave Monday to speak were in order yesterday speak when I addressed students n Buffalo. Wednesday and Thurs when Emma Goldman came of Chicago universities and are day she will speak in A\beny and doing their utmost for me." then spend the remaining time of home. She is shown at the Her object in lecturing is and her thirty-day stay in New York right inscribing her name in always has been, she said, to: City. tier autobiography, "Living "Try to get people to think. It Unless her visit is extended, she My Life," which her friend, is better for them to think plans to go to Canada and spend wrongly than not at all for once the Summer preparing a lecture Mrs. William D. Carhart is they begin to think they will tour for next Fall. holding. Her family looks soon learn to think correctly. on. From left, they are: "I am not and never was en Mrs. Samuel Commins, a gaged in any attempt to over throw any government." sister; her brother, Herman She doubts if there is any chance Goldman, and nephew, Allen for a revolution in this country or Goldman. England. Anglo Saxons, she said, are not easily induced to revolu tion. And Communism offers no threat to the United States govern ment, for. "Communists in the United States can make a lot of noise Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection "You Still Have Certain Amount of Freedom In America," Says Noted Anarchist at Combat Dictatorship ijfft. $., Convention Hall Gathering. Emma Goldman WKrnd Audience A warning to combat in the name^ "National Fascists in Germany, • of liberty any movement seeking to or Nazism, is a mass youth move MRS. WALTER S. MEYERS fK M~f^~ S^f establish a dictatorship in the ment which has caught their United States was Emma Gold imagination. Returning war man's farewell to Rocehster. troops finding themselves be trayed were fertile soil of Na Addressing a cosmopolitan audi tional Fascism. ence of more than 1,000 at Conven "The Germans found them tion Hall last night, the dis selves in the gutter. They want tinguished anarchist, economist and ed no more war and when the writer said: Ruhr was occupied by the Allies "You still have a certain it was possible to poison the Ger amount of freedom in this coun man public's mind with the story try. Not much, but you still can of the entire world against Ger walk the streets without fear of many. attack by legalized gangsters or "That was what Hitler and his imprisonment in concentration cowards played on." camps. Industrialists, French munitions "Don't permit a dictatorship to manufacturers and many wealthy be choked down your throats!" German Jews contributed to the Her final appearance here was fighting coffers of Hitler and his sponsored by the Rochester Chap adherents, according to Miss Gold ter, Council of Jewish Women. She man. She asserted: must leave the country April 30, "Hitler would not have succeed when a ninety-day visit privilege ex ed without their support." pires. Friends throughout the na Pointing out that Jews consti tion are endeavoring to obtain ex tute only 1 per cent, of the popula tension of the time limit. tion of Germany, she said there are She was deported from the 200,000 persons, including Catho United States more than fifteen lics, Protestants, men of science years ago for anti-war activities. and letters imprisoned in the con Her topic last night was "The centration camps of Germany. Drama of Europe,' which she inter Dictatorship means, she said: preted as the current events of the "A small political party. It al continent, describing it as: ways ends in the hands of one "More poignant than any ever which is to hold a convention in man or clique. It believes in written." this city aims to establish terror and the people are forced Miss Goldman predicted that Nazism in the United States. to submit. There is complete eventually this country will be in "It is the duty and obligation coercion. fected with the dictatorship to organize against any attempt "Two new laws were recently disease, which, he said: to introduce German national enacted in Russia. One is that "Again holds the human race Facism in the United States." if workers absent themselves In bondage. In dictatorships the This sentence was followed by from factories they may be sent state is the supreme authority, prolonged applause. enced up Jo ten years in prison. absorbing the unit and Individual. Defining anarchism, Miss Gold The other is that if a peasant "Like many persons when sick man said it to be: takes food from the land he tills from an incurable disease, sick "An organization that will rise he may receive from ten years society in Europe has gone to a out of the co-operative need of in prison to a death sentence. quack for help. Masses bled by the people and not superim "Germany and Italy have these war see dictatorships as the solu posed. It would feed, clothe and same laws now. They have imi tion of their problem. shelter everyone on the day of tated Russia. "Capitalism has swung Its swan the revolution and not afterward. "Dictatorships have destroyed tong. Its legs are tottering and "All governments have failed social security. The dictator it looks to Fascism for salvation." so V.i should get along without state is omnipotent. No matter She traced the rise to power of government and the parapher what mistakes are made by the Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, blam nalia of corruption, police and Russian government they are de ing the latter for leading Italy into the judiciary." clared to be sabotage. the World War. In none of the Among her listeners were former "Dictatorships have turned the dictator-controlled countries, she Mayor Percival D. Oviatt, Railways people into informers and de declared, have social or civic im Commissioner Charles R. Barnes stroyed the sanctity of human provements been made. and Councilmen Anthony C. Scin- life. They are not going to solve Citing Italy, she said: ta and Joseph E. Silverstein, the great problem of the world. "All of Italy has been turned Deputy Fire Chief George Moran "In Russia the people continue Into beggars. The reason there and Police Sergeant Robert Muhs. to lack every human need. That are no strikes there is that On the platform were Mrs. Mary government is merely state capi strikes are prohibited. The cap T. L. Gannett, the Rev. Dr. David talism. Labor has been promised EMMA GOLDMAN italists are in full control. And Rhys Williams, pastor of First Heaven but remains in Hall." With her ninety-day stay in the United States Hearing a close, today, there are 900,000 unem Unitarian Church, and Dean Her observations of world affairs Miss Goldman is shown bidding farewell to a group of friends fol ployed there. And . . . Ameri Thomas Wearing of the Colgate- have made her more an anarchist lowing her Convention Hall address last night. Mrs. Meyers pre cans would love to have a Musso Rochester Divinity School, than ever before, she said. Even in sided at the meeting held under the sponsorship of the Council of lini if they could find one." this country, she said: Jewish Women. 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iialin Branded Betrayer by Emma Goldman Emma ~ ^ BIOGRAPHY,Jfm*-j{r- good grace of Hitler—if such a . . ,. > J returning to this continent . Goldman, former' ^cnes-Vl* ' man could be capable of grace— tenan who became a world-famed j making her home in Toronto. anarchist and labor crusader, yes-; She was violently critical of thefo r years. terday branded Stalin as "the great j Russo-German agreement, which "The British and French govern Ishe world's workers. ments have not pretended to repre betrayer" of labor in an address "Th. describee workerd sa so f"crucifying the world" havthee inSpeakin Torontog. before a cheering, en sent the working classes or com thusiastic audience, Miss Goldman been deceived, betrayed and cheat munism, or socialism, or any other, declared Stalin, through his Rus ed," she declared. "While they but they have been true to their looked to Russia for hope of better tl sian-German pact, has today colors when their people's rights "stabbed the workers of the world days to come they have been sold were threatened and we have to in the.back." out by Stalin, the great betrayer. admit they do not pretend. The once fiery "Hign Priestess of "Stalin's pretence of world revo "Stalin pretended to be the sym Anarchy," product of a Rochester lution is one of the most horrible bol of communism and we ex sweatshop system of years ago, lies of history. His betrayal of pected much from him," the vet today is a mild appearing, 70-year- Spain will be nothing compared to eran anarchist said. "Now he has old preacher of world revolution his ultimate betrayal of the world destroyed both socialism and com Deported from the United States when he signs the pact with Japan munism in his own country and in 20 years ago after numerous vio that is brewing. others. lent clashes with police and mu "Some persons blemed Britain "This is the arch-betrayal, the nicipal authorities, Miss Goldman and France for forcing Stalin to crucifying, of the workers of the lived for years in Russia beforVoiceLe sign with Hitle ofr becaus Emmae of thei r worlGoldman,d by that evil saty r of the MISS GOLDMAN slowness but Stalin tried for theKremlin. " Anarchist, Stilled by Death The voice which Emma Goldman raised bitterly against career as a radical lecturer and(, the established order of government as far back as 1887 in writer in Rochester, is seriously t Rochester, where she worked, in a sweat shop as a young woman, was stilled today in*— ill in a hospital death. which she was believed recovering. in Toronto The internationally-noted anar Miss Goldman became involved arter suffering chist deported in 1919 to Russia, in revolutionary movements short a stroke Satur died early today at her home in Toly after her arrival in America at? day night. She ronto, Ont. Death followed a stroke the age of 15, when she came to5 is 70 years old. suffered several months ago from Rochester with her family. A Russian (Other Details on Page 3), p h il o sophical anarchist, Miss Goldman once E Emma Goldman worked in cloth- an i n g factories Slightly Improved Reported Better here in what EMMA Emma Goldman, anarchist lec-| Emma Goldman, Russian-born was known as GOLDMAN" hirer, writer and former Roche3-| radical and onetime Rochester the "sweat terian, who suffered a stroke ln.1 resident, is much improved, her shop" days. Emma Goldman, former Rocbesterian and internationally Toronto last Saturday, was report-1 physicians reported from Toronto She was de known anarchist, has joined the loyalist cause in Spain ed yesterday as slightly improved!'' last night. She suffered a stroke a ported to Russia in 1919, longl and is now in the revolt-torn country, it was revealed although still unconscious. week ago. after leaving Rochester. Within I Physicians said they were hope Yesterday's Associated Press re last night. Miss Goldman is gathering data for a propa a year she had quarreled with ful of her recovery, according to port announced that the 70-year-old ganda tour, according to Associated Press dispatches, and Lenin and Trotsky and fled Russia, j the Associated Press. She is 70 anarchist had regained conscious- . will soon leave for England to seek support for the Reds Since then she has been ad-! lyears old. ness and was "decidedly" improved. ''• mitted to the U. S. only on tempo-' She has lived in Canada since last rary permits. She has been in' Canada since last May after some! time in Spain supporting the Republican cause. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Unhappy in Soviet M Famed as Anarchist But Emma Goldman, who for so Emrh% 'rrmtimo MISS GOLDMAN. long had gone up and down the Although Emma Goldman was born /; United States preaching a new so- In Kovno, then a city of Rusisa, now Iclftl order, was unhappy in the new JRussia. capital of Lithuania, she regarded Roch NOTED RADICAL, During an address in Toronto ester as her home, having come here as |jlast September, Miss Goldman a girl. The news that she has passed pi branded Josef Stalin as "the great from this disturbed world is therefore ^•betrayer of labor." of immediate and local interest. RESIDED HERE Her attack followed the signing When Miss Goldman began her stormy |
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