Free Love Colony Under Surveillance

Tacoma Anarchists Declare the Shooting of the President Justifiable.

     TACOMA, Sept. 11.—Since the shooting of President McKinley attention is being given to a large colony of anarchists and free lovers in this county. The colony is made up of anarchists who have attained more or less prominence in Chicago and Northwestern cities. Among them is John Pope, who four years ago was jailed in Portland for sending obscene literature through the mails. Another is Lois Waisbrooker, a woman more than 70 years old, formerly of New York, who loudly denounces what she calls the present sex slavery of women. She prints a paper called Clothed With the Sun, in which she advocates free love.
     Leaders of the colony do not hesitate to declare that Czolgosz was justified in shooting President McKinley. They claim it was no worse than the shooting of the Filipinos by American soldiers. Two years ago Emma Goldman visited Puget Sound and was heard by many persons now members of this colony. The newspaper organ of the colony is called Discontent.
     County officers have the colonists under surveillance and are endeavoring to learn how closely they are connected with Eastern organizations now being investigated by Government agents.