The Little Review, March 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 1)Various
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The Little Review, March 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
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Emma Goldman is about to stand trial for the same “offense.” In her case
there will be no “influential” women rushing back and forth to
Washington to interview the President in her behalf. I only wish there
would be. It would insure her freedom for the next year, and it would be
so amusing to figure out on what grounds the Good Presbyterian could
effect the release of the Arch Anarchist. But Emma Goldman will fight
her case alone, and on its merits. If she does not succeed in effecting
a revision of the penal code regarding the whole matter of birth control
she will spend the next year in prison, I understand. You can all help
by sending your protests to Magistrate Simms and also by giving your
support to Dr. Long and Dr. Haiselden or any other person who gets
involved in these laws of the dark ages.
“_THE BEAUTIFUL GESTURE_”
Why do you object to Jean Crones’ reasoning? I reprint his second
letter, transposed into English:
Why did I do it? While in Europe millions of Christians are
slaughtering each other in the most bloody massacre, and in this
free country thousands of men and women are tramping the streets
without food and shelter, and at the same time the church holds
dinners that cost $15 a cover, beginning with Beluga caviar and
champagne—the money which was beggared from poor working men and
women, the money which the blood of poor workers has run for.
These conditions are a scandal. This is the failure of
Christianity—an insult to honesty and a challenge to humanity.
Let the church answer my charges toward the world and I shall
stand for the charges made against me.
_MOTOR BUSSES ON CHICAGO BOULEVARDS._
There is really a definite plan on foot for this miracle. A Motor Bus
Company has been formed, and the necessary certificates from the State
Public Utilities Commission secured. Its plan is to operate from the
south end of Jackson Park to the north end of the city limits. People
who haven’t limousines, who can’t afford taxis, and who can’t possibly
walk the whole distance of the parks, will be able to drive through the
beautiful parts of the city—the _only_ beautiful parts, it is necessary
to add. For ten cents they can have an astounding romance. They can sit
on top of an omnibus, under the sun or the stars, and watch Lake
Michigan stretching out to the other side of the world. That is, they
can do this if the Park Commissioners decide to allow them.
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