Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-22

They Influenced Dynamiters.
Their influence was traced in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times.
Matthew Schmidt and David Gaplan. now
in Jail with others for that crime. were
of the Goldman clan." Attorney General
Palmer has said.
They were suspected Of receiving Ger
man money to oppose preparedness by
the United States before the United
States entered the war
The co-operated with German spies
in endeavorlng to promote 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 Ian
guage newspapers, according TO Attorney
General Palmer.
Denounced by judges and other public
officials from President Roosevelt down
as enemies of the country seeking to de-
stroy it but regarded By women aRar-
chists 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 $4,000 or S25 600 bail in cash
or Liberty bonds Yet fines of $4,000
each for opposing the draft We're unpaid.
They had no property. they said.
champion OF SOtfetS.
For more than 10 years their depor-
tation had been agitated and at times
seemed near but no formal proceedings
for this purpose were instituted until the
alarming radical activities of 1919, in
Guiding the Seattle and Winnipeg gen
eral strikes, the sending of bombs
through the mails to Attorney General
Palmer and other prominent men. the
formation of branches of the communist
party and plans for anarchlstic demon
strations on the anniversary Of the for
nation of the Soviet Republic OF Rus
sia. which were frustrated by country
wide raids in November These raids
made total of 691 anarchists seized
by the United States on deportation pro
ceedings in the last two years.
When their co-workers. the Nihlhsts
in Russia whence they came in youth.
evoluted into the Bolsheviki and formed
the Soviet government after the down
fall of the monarchy. Berkman and Miss
Goldman championed similar govern
ment aud social order for this county.
Berkman when surrendered for depor-
tation predicted that he would return to
the United States as Soviet ambassador
and Miss Goldman prophesied reyolu-
tion here within five years.
Predict Storm Here.
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. \ thunderous storm
is brewing in the United States
Yet when given opportunity during
their many appearances in court to air
their views. they repudiated violence.
The anarchist never advocates
chism means the negation of violence.
Anarchists teach self-reliance. co opera
ton and mutual aid in opposition to ex-
listing institutions and authority.
In replying to one such exposition af-
ter Berkman's conviction in New York
for opposing the draft. the United States
attorney said to the court:
The court should know that this man
who now claims to be for universal
violence. in 1892 went int Mr.. Frick's
office Tin Pittsburgh, and tried to shoot
him down without giving his victim an
to defend himself. He shot
him in the back as he would dog"
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 ef freedom in
this country expired early this month in
New York City while Clay Frick was be-
ing buried in Pittsburgh and mourned as
a public benefactor.
Conceal Their Past.
Emma Goldman is 10 years old and
Berkman 80 She was born in Kovno,
Russia and IN early childhood removed
with her parents to East Prussia. When
IL years old she came to the United
States and started working in clothing
factories i'll Rochester, n. Y.
Recently asked who her relatives
were. Miss Goldman replied: Il have
children all over the United States"
In 1887 when II years old. she was
married in Rochester to Jacob A.
Kersner, who came from Russia in 1882
and was naturalized two years later.
IT, 1909 his citizenship was revoked be
ause he was not 2l when naturalized
and had not been five years in the
United States. The marriage ceremony
was performed by schochet-a slayer
of animals for kosher meat. Two years
later the Kersners were divorced by n
rabbi according to the Jewish rite.
kcrsner seems then to have passed out
of Miss Goldman's life entirely, for an
in court during her final
fight against deportation that he had
died this year took her by surprise. It
was on claim that marriage to him
made her citizen that her legal ef-
forts to remain in this country were
based.
She Claimed citizenship.
They cant keep me out. she said in