Show AN ESTIMATE OF EMMA GOLD COLD MAN Editor Republican I 1 went to see Emma Goldman What Fact Fact but but my mj wife went with i irie me e Oh not t e so bad I heard she was to speak so phoned to my wife Mary Im I'm going going go go- ing tag to hear Emma Goldman tonight 89 so T 9 wont won't 9 be be FP up to to supper y But I 1 IT Want vant to go too Jake Jaire Good h heavens heavens ens No Its It's no fit place for ladies ladles Then its it's no fit place for gentlemen Where you OU can go I can go But never do Mary Iary The be full fun of ot anarchists and theres there's apt to be a riot and you rou may find yourself your yourself your pour self in a great anarchists anarchists policemen policemen po po- brol broken en chairs matter What time and where It will not do woman Didn't you OU read The Republican this morning She called her audience a pack of usurers and prostitutes You want to go now Wheres eres ere's the place pIneo Ill I'll meet you ou What hat a woman Your blood be on your own head Eastman hall han meet me Third South and State Wiley hanging serenely on my mj arm I tru trudged ged bravely up the dark dirty stairway into the dingy ball hall There Thera was a tumult at the door The rhe keeper a little black man was qua quarreling vociferously with another male that male that sounded anarchy Wo We were taxed twenty five cents apiece apiece- that was reasonable We Ve took chairs four tows from the tho rostrum almost within arms arm's l length at length at any rate within Infernal machine length length of of the great anarchist when at work Wort Tho The audience was at least 90 per percent percent cent foreigners it se seemed med the tho whole bunch under the supreme protection of four big fat natured good Amer ican lean policemen sitting contentedly on tho the rear scat drawing fat salaries as aa serenely as if it It had hall been a Sabbath Sab bath o e And rv n little later lator while hUe tho the fair Emma was as talking tho the thought came camo to me Which the more moro dangerous to the tho community this ranting muting female with her advanced i Ideas or this bunch of or males drawIng draw draw- lug Ing fat fut salaries under a n spoils S S 'S Stem tern tem I am sun still undecided We Ye sat there Interestedly for halt half haltan an hour selecting In our minds the anarchists from the tho audience when suddenly a Yer very beautiful woman with an Interesting face in a picture list hat arose near the organ org Was this the fair Emma We Yo decided ell it was was anc ane Tell rell to a n minute study of or her face low How beautiful and what a strong face and ln think of that mouth talking talk talk- lug ing blood and thunder The woman talked animatedly shook hands with several newcomers new new- newcomers comers corners and now we wo knew know It was Emma Emma and and how Interesting and aull to think such beauty could veil yell ouch such a aheart aheart aheart heart Suddenly our beauty was extinguished extinguished extin extin- b by a dark meteoric streak that alm almost st flew up the center aisle and did not baIt halt till it reached the rostrum where it mannishly took a n big swallow of or water turned turnell and lo Emma Goldman faced the audience Good God Goll what a terrible shatterIng shattering shatter shatter- Ing of ideals The moment the tho real Emma appeared ap up- all doubts fled tIed So did dIll our admiration No Now that's just how I wanted her hor herto herto horto to look whispered my mj wife no doubt a 11 trifle jealous of or the picture hat and delighted to nail my deplorably poor judgment on the other female And Emma Probably sixty or sixty five five feet four weight dressed dressell u. u the plainest old st style le black skirt and waist imaginable le with only a little white frill at the tho neck her hor hair hall as though she had just tumbled out of bed bell eye eje glasses covering small sharp eyes features decidedly coarse and aud masculine a Do mouth big and strong and firm firm firm-a a supremely homely woman A A slight error in se sex ses at birth commented my mr wife Perhaps one of those men masquerading masquerading masquerading ading for twenty five years in womans woman's garb suggested I. I But the moment Emma opened he her I mouth you ou felt her power Her subject was The Revolutionary Re Spirit In the Mo Modern ern Drama and tho the way she handled Ghost Tho The Don Doll and PUi Wi t- t nd o 0 1 dramas l- l tho T of master Tolstoi and ami hd other great writers Item was a caution She made them out all teachers of ot modern anarchy And yet et th tile the lecture as ns a whole was a rare literary treat treat Yes es and delivered dell b by the arch anarchist too Emma Goldman is n a strong masterful masterful master master- ful woman homely as you ou say editorially editorially editor editor- today tollay but a power that must be reckoned with th Considering her view-point view there was little objectionable objection objection- able in her talk Sunday night her reference to our President and big families was the one weak spot in her lecture Her IreI talk on the modern subjugation sub sub- subjugation of or woman and our slavery sla to form and dogmas long grown grass was really not so bad I imagined most of or her lecture went over o the heads of or her audience a majority majority ma ma- of which had never heard of ot the tho authors she sho quoted so glibly but she showed she could also get set down downto to lower levels for she had the crowd time and again loudl loudly applauding I think she smiled three times limes during dur dur- ing lag the evening e and such a a smile really it was the worst thing she did dill But Emma Goldman Goldman tho though Goldman though Sh interesting interesting inter inter- esting though brain brainy though deep though cultured shows all through her talk earmarks of a latent power that if arou aroused will do things J J. M. M l Salt Lake City April 17 |