The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-22
AMERICAS MOST DANGEROUS PAIR
|OF ANARCHISTS SAIL FOR RUSSIA.
WITH 249 RADICALS ON RED ARK
Country Freed From Contamin-
alton of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman BufOrd
Creeps Out of New York Har-
Dor Under Heavy Guard With
Its Precious Cargo
Ellis ISLAND MOBBED.

had been deported to Russia yes
terday on the "soviet ark" Bu-
ford, mob of $50 "reds' today
attacked thee engine entrance to
the Ellis island ferry in an effort
to reach fellow radicals still
awaiting deportation. "A riot call
was turned in before the police
could restore order.
The mob formed around the
gate-keeper's cage several min
utes before the attack was
launched. Then the woman, pro-
claiming herself an anarchist,
stepped forward and drove both
fists through the glass window
AS pieces Of glass crashed to the
pavement the crowd started
! chanting the "InternationaI."
"Down with this dirty, rotten
government" screamed the wom-
an. "They have taken my hus.
band and are taking the hus-
bands, brothers and fathers Of US
ALL"
Unable to quiet the mob, Asa
Mitchell, superintendent of the
barge office located at the pit Of
Manhattan island, turned in a call
for police reserves.
The mob turned on the first
policeman to answer the call and
beat him, but when more reserves
with drawn clubs and a detail Of
coast guards with fixed bayonets
arrived, the crowd suddenly
become docIe. Members Of it ex-
planned that they had come to
Inquire about relatives who had
sailed on the Buford.
A young Russian woman who
gave the name Of Clara Brooks
was arrested as the rinqIeader.
New York, Dec. 22.-The Soviet
ark" Buford, which sailed for an un
named Russian pert yesterday WITH
24o radical deportees on board will BE-
followed before she has an opportunity
to land by Il second lark" load OF
"rcds' according to the best informa.
ton obtainable today.
1t was stated that second batch OF
dcportcrs probably would be embarked
sometime this week as the govern.
ment's second drastic step against
aliens who have sought to bring about
the overthrow of constitutional gov
crnmcnt. The department of justice
has G0,000 radicals listed. How many
CT these will follow their red leaders
on enforced voyages to their home
lands has not been made known.
The Buford which crept out Of New
York with heavy guard in the dark
ness yesterday morning carried Alex
ander Berkman and Emma Goldman
two OF the most notorious anarchistlc
leaders the United States has ever har
bored together with 247 other radicals
of various degree of "redness." De-
partment of justice agents said the
Buford's passenger list comprised vir-
tually the brains of the radical
movement in the United States.
GOLDMAN AND BERKMAN
The deportation of Emma Goldman
and her devoted companion. Alexander
Bcrkman, ends u joint career Of 80
years in the United States during
which they preached the overthrow Of
government by violence. He spent 1G
years and she three years III Jail, bus
they were never punished for the part
their teachings played in attacks by
others on life and property.
Berkman served fourteen years for
shooting Henry Clay Frick 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 oposinS conscription ana
one year for melting to riot. Berk-
man was never brought to trial on n
for murder in connection
with the Preparedness Day bomb out
rage in San Francisco. Miss Gold
man was acquitted of illegal distribu-
tion Of birth control literature.
Il HELPED KILL MCKINLEY
Their joint activities as publishers
of the anarchist magazines. Mother
Earth" and "The Blast" suppressed
during the war combined with their
addresses at anarchists meetings helTA
ell cause the assassinatio of President
the government charged in
its deportation proceedings. The con-
fcssion of Czolgosz DESCRIBED the in.
lluence which Miss Goldman's writings
had on him.
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" Attor-
nev General Palmer has said
They were suspected Of receiving
German money to oppose preparedness
liy the United States before the United
States entered the war.
CO-OPERATED WITH HUN SPIES
They co-operated with German spies
in endeavoring to promote revolution
in India during the war.
They were the pioneer radicals in
the United States. Now there are go,
600 Reds here and 472 disloyal 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, 1OC
years ahead of their times" they so in.
creased their following that it was easv
for them to provide $4,000 or s25tN0
bail in cash or Liberty bonds.
Yet fines of $4,000 each for opposin;,
the draft were unpaid. They had no
property. they said.
For more than 10 years their depor-