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 every field of 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 is fictitious in 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.