The Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNESTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901. EMMA GOLDMAN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 October 1901, Page 2

The Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNESTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901. EMMA GOLDMAN.

The woman whose name appears at the head of this article, has, through the assassination of the late President M'Kinley, become known to the world as a female anarchist; as an advocate for crime of the most abhorent type. This dangerous firebrand, according to a Sydney authority, is no beauty, but yet “ is a woman of attractive appearance.” She has the Slav cast of features—a nose broad at the base and somewhat depressed above the bridge ; “ but otherwise she is all right.” She is a Russian Jewsss, born at St. Petersburg, but brought up since the age of six in America. A strike in a factory in which she worked seems to have imbittered her life and caused her to become an anarchist. At the age of twenty-three she was working in a shirt factory at Rochester (New York'. A strike occurred there, and this led her to study social questions, with the result that she adopted the principles of Anarchism, and has taught them publicly ever since. After the strike was over she continued to work as a factory-hand for some time, but ultimately she studied nursing, and became a duly qualified nurse, spending two years in one of the largest hospitals. She is, it appears, a very deeply read and well educated woman now, thanks to her own exertions, and in addition to speaking Russian, German, and English fluently, she is about the best speaker among the Anarchists in the United States at the present time. She does not, says the “ foreign exponent,” make a living out of her lectures. Her trips across America are undertaken by invitation, and her expenses are always guaranteed. She only goes lecturing, it appears, when work is slack. At the present time Emma Goldman is about 35 years of age, and is a fair sample of what extreme views can be inculcated by much learning upon an ill-balanced brain. Such persons are even more dangerous to society than “ hair

brained” madmen of the Ozolgosz, type, for it is they who incite “Shallow brained ” persona to commit such shocking crimes. It may be right, according to American law, that this interesting females like Emma Goldman should be allowed to remain at large to preach her doctrine of assassination, but it is not conducive to public safety.