The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-27
HAD PREACHED ANARCHY
FOR ALL OF THIRTY YEARS
Emma Goldman, and Alexander 5erk-
man Recently Deported by
U. S. Government


day of Emma Goldman and her de-
voted companion, Alexander Berkman,
ends a joint careers CT 80 years in the
United States during which they
preached the overthrow of government
by violence. He spent 16 years and
she three years in Jail. but they were
never punished for the part their
teachings played in attacks by others
ON life and property. 7s
Berkman served ID years for shoot
I ing Henry Clay Prick and two years
for urging young men to abstain from
registering for the draft early in the
war Miss Goldman was in prison
two years for opposing CONSUMPTION
and one year for melting to riot. Berk-
man was never brought to trial on an
indictment for murder in connection
with the Preparedness Day Bomb out
rage in San Francisco. Miss Goldman
was acquitted of illegal distribution of
birth control literature.
Their joint activities as publishers
of tn eanarchist magazines, Mother
! Earth" and THE Blast" suppressed
during the war combined with their
addresses at anarchists meetings help
ed cause the assassination of President
Mckinley, the government charged in
its deportation proceedings. The con
fesSion Of Czolfiosz described the in
fluence which Miss Goldman's writings
had on him.
Their influence was traced in the
dynamiting CT the los Angeles Times.
Matthew Schmidt and David Captain,
now in Jail with others for that crime.
were ''of the Goldman clan Attorney
General Palmer has said =,
They were suspected OF receiving
German money to oppose preparedness
by the United States before the United
States entered the war.
They cooperatde with German spies I
in endeavoring to promote revolution
in India during the war.
They were the pioneer radicals in
the United States. Now there are co.
600 reds here and 472 disloyad foreign
language newspapers, according TO At
torney General Palmer
Denounced by judges and other pub.
lie officials from President Roosevelt
down as enemies Of the country seek
ing to destroy it but regarded by wo-
men anarchists who greeted them with
kisses as beautiful characters, 100
years ahead of their times" they so
increased their following that it was
easy for them to provide SIS 900 or
&25, 900 bail in cash or Liberty bonds
Yet fines CT $4,000 each for opposing
the draft were unpaid. They had no
property they said
For more than 10 years their de-
poHtation had been agitated and at
times seemed near but no formal pro-
ceedings for this purpose were institut
ed until the alarming radical actiYi. .
ties of 1919, including the Seattle and
Winnipeg general strikes, the sending
OF bombs through the mails TO Attor-
ney General Palmer and other pro-
minent men, the formation OF
branches of the communist party and
plans Tor anarchistic demonstrations
on the anniversary of the formation of
the Soviet Republic of Russia. which
were frustrated by countrywide raids
in November These raids made to,
tai OF 697 anarchists seized by the
United States on deportation proceed
INKS III tllc ldSl lMO years.
When their co-workers, the Nihilists
in Russia, whence they came in youth.
eYoluted into the Dolsheviki and form.
ed the Soviet government after the
downfall OF the monarchy Berkman
and Miss Goldman ohampioned simil-
lar government and social order for
this country. Berkman when surren.
dered for deportation predicted that
he would return to the United States
as Soviet ambassador and Miss Gold
man prophesied a revolution here with
in five years.
American capitalists are the most
greedy in the world" she said, land
when the time comes they are going
to pay terrible price for it. 4 thun.
derous storm is brewing in the United
States"
Yet when given opportunity during
their many appearances in court to air
Their views they repudiated violence {
1.-The anarchist never advocates
reign OF terror" said Berkman."
Anarchism means the negation of vi
olcnce. Anarchists teach selfreliance. {
cooperation and mutual aid in opposi-
ton to existing institutions and au. {
thority.'
In replying to one such exposition
after Berkman's conviction in New I
Pork for opposing the draft. the Unit.
ed States attorney said TO the court
The cour should know that this
man who now claims to be for uni.
versal peace and says he is against
the use of violence in 1892 went into
Mr.. Tricks office lin Pittsburgh and
tried to shoot him down without civ.
ing his victim an opportunity to de.
fend himself. He shot him in the
back as he would dog"
THE first terrorist act in America"
is the way Berkman described his at
tack on Prick in his book, Prison
Memoirs of an Anarchist"
Berkmans last hour of freedom in
this country expired early this month
in New York City while Henry Clay
Prick was being buried in Pittsburgh
and mourned as public benefactor.
Emma Goldman is 40 years old and
Berkman So She was born In Kovno,
Russia and in early childhood remov.
with her parents to East Prussia.
When Is years old she came to the
United States and started working in
cloth factories In PCChastar NJ V