The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-06-21
A Kiss FOR ANARCHY
Berkman and His Emma
Give Oseulatory Smack
in Public

Sew YORK. June zi-wlth 3 sdup,-
,ttry kiss that awed lnto silenoe the L.
500 spectators ia the Grand Central Pal
ace alexander Berkman and Emma
G,%a..- high priest and priestess OF
anarchy. proclaimed to their adherents
that .hey had accepted each other as
husband and Wife on a limited con-
tract anf without transgressing the car
diual rules OF their creed with a clvn or
religious ceremony.
The osculation was the climax to tho
welcome beck % the fold extended to
BERGMAN after ias imprisonment OF
fourteen years "A the Western poniton-
tlary OF Pennsylvania for attempting to
assassinate Henry G. Friok.
The men and women In the audience
stood up on the seats and shouted them
selves hoarse az Berkman worked his
WY through the throng TO the front of
thestage. All semblance OF order had
disappeared. when the kiss caused a
hush and the spectators waited with
hlied breaTl to hear the FIRST word
spoken by tho released anarchist
FIFTY police reserves were distributed
through The hall an hour before the
HtHAAlNE NhH " HNnAi fAVIAh HAAA WNin
10 uiiform and the others we're IN plain
clothes
eerkman mas Stage Fright
Ia the anarchisac feast OF orato1y
Emfna Goldman preceded Berlnan and
made fiery speech m which she said
he WAS net there BY the grace of the
prison keeners who had sworn that he
should never leave hts dungeon alive
I,r.. aH
enthusiast as she gave thecourts and
laws OF Pennsylvania a hard whack
When Beckman got the floor he was
manifcatIy suffering from a severe at
tack or stage fright He mopped his
basd poll nervously aud said he was hap
py 70 return 10 hts friends.
'They say that nineteen hundred year
ago man was raised from the dea
after having been buried three days"
conunued. "6ut [ think thes reacti %,
from the peaceful slumber OF thr e
days grave IS not nearly 50 miraculous
as thc actual coming back 20 life from
n living death Of fourteen years. M
travellers ever return. It is said from
the hand Of shades beyond the river styx
and maybe IL Is good thing for them
they dida' t--but you caa see there Is an
] ~ ANHApNtAi tNNtIAAbW NftM 10 tnLk Aliti
! for have just returned from he'll the
like Of which, for human brutality. Is not
! to be found even in the fire-and-brim-
stone creeds OF orr loving Christians.
lost Hair, but Kept HIs Head
But II I've lost my hair I've kept
my head and come back to you stronger
than ever and fun Of determination 70
/ devote my NE to the work OF showing
- 81. a a..
Persecution cannot stlhe the voice OF
justice and liberty. Oppression cannot
down us. We shall know no defeat. but
80 on TO the end, even at the cost Of
our lives and liberty.
Your false civilization Is a disease.
and capitalism is its most malignant
form. II is the acute stage that Is bring
ing into the world a race OF towards.
weaklings and imbeciles; race OF man
nikins hacking the physical courage and
mental initiative TO do the deed and
think the thouht not inscribed In the
book Of practice"
There was another uproar Of cheers
as Berkman ended his harangue. and
2 then ono Of the editors OF an anarchstic
| periodical jumped into the arena and
| fired wolfe yof language over the heads
Of the throng that would have been
/ deadly II he had trained his battery n
| little lower. His speech sounded to the
/ unpractised ear like a buzz-saw wuding
/ through plank full OF knots His name
\ Ike that Of nearly al the speakers. end
ed with sky"
As the heavy artillery ceased every one
Of the fifteen hundred waving red flags.
/ red ribbons and red carnations swooped
down on Berlman. They all tried 20
/ shake hands with him at ance