Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-22

birth cootrol literature.
Their joint activities as publish
crs of the anarchist magazines,
M other Earth" and The Blast"
suppressed during the war, COM
bined with their addresses at anarch-
lists meetings, helped cause the as
sassination of President Mckinley,
the government charged in its de-
portation proceedings. The con-
fession of Czolgosz described the
influence which Miss Goldman's
writings had on him.
Blamed for Dynamiting.
Their influence was traced in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times. Matthew Schmidt and David
Caplan, now in jail with others for
that crime, were "of the Goldman
clan" Attorney General Palmer has
said.
They were suspected of receiv-
ing German money to oppose pre-
paredness by the United States be-,
fore the United States entered the
war.
They co-operated with German
spies in endeavoring to promote a
revolution in India during the war.
They were the pioneer radicals in
the United States. Now there are
$4,000 Reds here and 472 disloyal
foreign language newspapers, ac-
cording to Attorney General Palmer.
Denounced by judges and other
public officials from President
Roosevelt down as enemies Of the
country seeking to destroy it but
regarded by women anarchists who
greeted them with kisses as "beauti-
full characters. 100 years ahead of
their times" they so increased their
following that it was easy for them
to provide $4,000 or $25,000 bail
in cash or Liberty bondsa Yet fines
of $4,000 each for opposing the
draft were unpaid. They had no
property, they said.
Long Agitation Against Them.
For more than 10 years their de-
portatibn had been agitated and at
times seemed near but no formal
proceedings for this purpose were in
stituted until the alarming radical
activities Of 1919, including the Sc
attle and Winnipeg general strikes,
the sending of bombs through the
mails to Attorney General Palmer
and other prominent men, the fofma-
ton of branches of the communist
party and plans for anarchistic DEM
onstrations on the anniversary of
the formation of the Soviet repub-
lie of Russia, which were frustrated
by countrywide raids in November.
These raids made total of 6o7 an
archists seized by the United States
on deportation proceedings in the
last two years. n
When their co-workers, the Nj!
hilists in Russia, whence they came
in youth, evoluted into the bolshe-
wiki and formed the Soviet govern
ment after the downfall of the mon
arcy, Berkman and Miss Goldman
championed a similar government
and social order for this country.
Berkman when surrendered for de-
portation predicted that he would
return to the United States as So
Wet ambassador and Miss Goldman
prophesied a revolution here with
in 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 States"
Yet when given opportunity DUR
ing their many appearances in court
to air their views they repudiated
violence.
"The anarchist never advocates
reign of terror" said Berkman.
"Anarchism means the negation OF
violence. Anarchists teach self-re-
LANCE, cooperation and mutual aid
in opposition to existing institutions
and authority"
In reply to one such exposition
after Berkman's conviction in New
York for opposing the draft the
United States attorney said to the
court:
Tried to Shoot Frick.
"The court 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.. Frick's Office Tin Pitts
burgh) and tried to shoot him down
without giving his victim an oppor-
tunity to defend himself He shot
him in the back as he would dog"
The first terrorist act in Amer
ica," is the way Berkman described
his attack on Frick in his book,
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Berkman's last hour of freedom
IL this country expired early this
month in New York City while
Henry Clay Frick was being buried
in Pittsburgh and mourned as
public benefactor.
Emma Goldman is 4o years old
and Berkman So She was born in
Kovno, Russia, and in early child
hood removed with her parents to
East Prussia. When IS 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 Goldman replied: 81
have children all over the United
States"
In 1887, when II years old, she
married in Rochester to Jacob A.
Kersner, who came from Russia in
1882 and was naturalized two years
later. In 1909 his citizenship was
revoked because he was not Il when