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Show PIONEERS IN 'RED' ACTIVITIES LEAVE SHORES FOREVER NUW YORK, Dec. 21. The deportation of Kmraa Goldman and her devoted oom-i oom-i panion, Alexander Berkman, ends a joint I career of thirty years in the United j States during whhn t i-y preached the j ; overthrow of government by violence. He I 'spent sixteen years and she three years 1 in jail, but they were never punished for, ! the part their teachings played in attacks i by others on life and property. I Berkman served fourteen years for j shooting Henry Clay Frick and two years i for urging young men 10 abstain from I reuisterimr for the draft early In the war. ! Miss Goldman was in prison two years for opposing conscription and one year for inciting to riot. Berkman was never hrou uh t to trial on an indictment for murder in connection with the Preparedness Prepared-ness day bomb outrage In San Francisco. Miss Goldman was acquitted of illegal distribution dis-tribution of birth control literature. Thtdr joint activities as publishers of the anarchist magazines, "Mother Earth" ami "The Blast," suppressed during the war. combined with their addresses at anarchists' meetings, helped caus the assassination as-sassination Of President McKinly, tne government charged in its deportation p:-oet-ed:iigs. Th.j confession of Czolgosz described the imlueuce which Miss Goldman's Gold-man's writings had on him, Th"ir influence was traced in tho dvna-miting dvna-miting of the Bos Angeles Times. Matthew S-'hm idr. and David i 'apian, now in jail w;Th others for that crime, wt-re "of the Goidm:i:i elan," Attorney General Palmer They were suspected of receiving Ger- ; mai rrony to oppose pre r?-redness by the r Sates : trio re the Uu.tei States 1 : : '. : - a d j : , : : g the w a r. Suspected of Pro-IIunism. : Th'-v -,vere the pioneer radicals in the 1 T'mied Stales. Now there are ,i.''"h. i etls here and -IT.' disloyal foreign iangaage i Lews; apers, according to Attomev G-'U- I ! era! Palmer. I 1 'enounced bv judges and other public 1 ofiieials. from President ltoosevr.t down. ' as uemies of the country, seeking to de-s de-s t r o y it, h u t r e g a rd e 1 b y w omen anarchists, an-archists, who greeted ihem'with kisses, as "beautiful characters. " years ahead oi their t i m es. ' ' t h ey so i n e re a se d their f o i -lowing tiiat it was easy for them to provide pro-vide .ir,ena or ono tall in cash or l.in-erty l.in-erty bonds. Vet tines of $1'.olh1 e;nd fir-opposing fir-opposing the draft were unpaid. They had no property, they said. For more than ten years their deportation deporta-tion had been agitated and :;t times seemed near, but n-o formal pruceeibngs for this purpose were instituted until the alarming radical activities of 1 !!;, including includ-ing the Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; the sending of bombs through th mails to Attorney Gem: nil Palmer and otiier prominent men : the formation, ot bra nc hes of the Communist . party and plans for anarchistic demonstrations on the anniversary of the formation of the soviet republic, of Russia, which were frustrated frus-trated ,by country-wide raids in November. Novem-ber. These ra ids made a total of tl:' anarchists seized by the United States on deportation proceedings in the last two years. When their co-workers, the Nihilists in Russia, whence they came in youth, eo-luted eo-luted into the Bolsheviki and formed the soviet government after the downfall ot the monarchy, Berkman a nd Miss Goldman Gold-man championed a similar govern mem. and social order for this country. Berkman, Berk-man, when surrendered for deportation, predicted that he would return to the United States as soviet ambassador and Miss Goldman prophesied a revolution here within five years. "American capitalists are the most greedy in the world," she said, "and when the time comes they are going to pay a terrible price for it. A thunderous storm is brewing in the United State-s." Yet, when given opportunity during their many appearances In court to air their views, they repudiated violence. "The anarchist never advocates a reign of terror," said Berkman. "Anarchism means the negation of violence. Anarchists Anarch-ists teach self-reliance, cooperation and mutual aid in opposition lo existing institutions in-stitutions and authority." In reply to one such exposition after Berkman's conviction In New York for opposing the draft, the United States attorney at-torney said to the court: "The court should know that this man, who now claims to be for universal peace and says he Is against the use of violence, vio-lence, in 1S92 went into Mr. Frick's office of-fice (in Pittsburg) and tried to shoot him down without giving his victim an opportunity oppor-tunity to defend himself. He shot him in the back as he would a dog." , Attack on Frick. "The first terrorist act in America" is the way Berkman described his attack on Frick in his book, "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist." Berkman's last hour of freedom in this country expired early this month in New York City while Henry Clay Frick was being buried in Pittsburg and mourned as a public benefactor. Emma Goldman is 49 years 'old and Berkman is oO. She was born in Kovno, Russia, and in early childhood removed with her parents to East Prussia. When 15 years old she came to the United States and started working in clothing factories in Rochester, N. Y, Recently asked who her relatives were, Miss Berkman replied: "I have chUdren all over the United States." In 1SS7 when 17 years old, she was married in Rochester to Jacob A. Kers-ner, Kers-ner, who came from Russia in 1SS2 and was naturalized two years later. In 1009 his citizenship was revoked because he was not 21 when naturalized and had not been five years in the United States. The marriage ceremony was performed by a schochet a slayer of animals for kosher meat. Two years later the Kersners were divorced by a rabbi, according to the Jewish Jew-ish rite. Kersner seems then to have passed out of Miss Goldman's life entirely, entire-ly, for announcement in court during her final fight against deportation that he had died this year took her by surprise. It was on a claim that marriage to him made her a citizen that her legal efforts to remain in this country were based. Goldman Boastful. "They can't keep me out,' she said In 1907 when there was talk of deporting deport-ing her. 'T don't believe they would be foolish enough to try. My father is an American citizen. I married an American Ameri-can citizen." Her father came to the United States In 18S6, one year after her arrival, and was naturalized at Rochester, when his daughter was L'4 years old. Her association with Berkman began thirty years ago in New York. Other than that he Is 50 years old and came from Russia and he seems to have concealed con-cealed his prior history pretty well. When he was released from the western Pennsylvania' Penn-sylvania' prison .after serving his time for shooting Mr. Frick, there were reports re-ports that he had married Miss Goldman Gold-man in New Jersey, but the marriage was never recorded and at their trial for obstructing ob-structing the- draft, both testified they were single. "I represent the devil," said Miss Goldman Gold-man at one of her meetings. "I am an apostle upholding glorious freedom, the apostle standing out against law and order and decency and morality. I am for the devil who leads tho way to the absolute yielding up to all the emotions here and now. Women are the slaves of little laws and conventions. They'U learn to break the laws some day." Lived Like Capitalists. Berkman and Miss Goldman made their headquarters in New York, where their magazines were published, but they were well known in every large city "in the United States, and also addressed anarchist anar-chist meetings in Canada, England, Australia, Aus-tralia, Holland and other countries. These meetings enabled them to live as comfortably as any despised capitalist capital-ist would wish. Admission fees were charged, circulars sold and subscriptions to their magazines taken. At the 'last meeting they addressed in Chicago prior to their deportation, the contributions to help them fight deportations were ?"0O0. Miss Goldman's bank book, seized when her magazine was suppressed, showed weeklv deposits running from J50 to $700 with one of over $.1700. They lived at the best hotels. In fact thev offered to pay their own way to Russia, or, failing fail-ing that, the difference between steerage steer-age and first-class, in order to have the best accommodations. |