A FEMALE ANARCHIST.

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1072, 14 October 1901, Page 4

A FEMALE ANARCHIST.

Emma Goldman, the woman - lecturer, who was arrested after the assassination of President McKinley, on a charge of inciting to murder, has been released again. This, it will be remembered, is the woman whose fiery harangues against those in authority, are said to have inspired Czolgoez'B murderous attack upon the President. Some particulars about the career of. this female firebrand have been given to a representative of a Sydney poper by ' a prominent foreign exponent of the doctrines of Anarchism,’ who is evidently a thorough ■ going admirer of Miss Goldman, The lady, it seems, ‘is no beauty to look at, yet she is' a wog)an of attractive appearance.’ she has the Slav cast of features—a note broad at the base and somewhat depressed above the bridg?; ‘but otherwise she is all right.’ She is a Russian Jewess, born at St. Petersburg but brought up since the age of six in America. At the age of twenty three she was working in a shift factoiy at Rochester (N.Y), 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 ns a factory hand f r some time but ultimately she studied nursing, and became a duly qualified nurse, spending two years in one of the large hospitals. She is, it appears, a veiy 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 Ea 1 of 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 J5 years of age. Christchurch Press.