The Washington times., 1919-12-22

NEW YORK. Dec. ss.-The deporta
don of Emma Goldman and her de-
voted com 5anIon, Alexander Berk-
man. ends a joint career OF thirty
years in the United states during
which they preached the overthrow
Of government by violence. He spent
sixteen years and she three years IN
jail
Berkman served fourteen years for
shooting Henry Clay Frtck and TWO
years for urging refusal 10 register
FOR the draft early in the war. Miss
Goldman was In prison two years Tor
opposing conscription and one year
for melting a riot. Berkman was
never brought to trial on an indiet-
ment for murder In connecuon Win
the preparedness day bomb outrage in
san Francisco. Miss Goldman was
acquitted OF illegal distribution OF
birth control literature.
she Inaueneed CsolgosA
Their Joint activities as publishers
Of the anarchist magazine, Mother
Earth ana the Blast. suppressed dur
ing ths-yar, combined with their ad-
dresses at anarchists meetings help
I'd cause the assassination OF Prest-
dent Mckinley, the Government
charged In its deportation proceed
fnxs, The confession OF CZolgosz de-
scribed the influence which Miss Gold
mans writings had on him.
Their influence also was traced IN
the dynamiting OF the Los Angeles
Times. Matthew Schmidt ano Davfi
CapIan. now in Jail with others FOR
that crime, were "of the Goldman
clan" Attorney General Palmer has
said
Cs-Operufed with Geraans-
Tney were suspected Of receiving
German money to oppose prepared
ness by the United States before the
United States entered the war:
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 900 Reds here and Az disloyal
foreign language newspapers. accord
tnx 10 Attorney General Palmer.
Gained Large Feilewtngs.
Denounced by judges and other
public officials as enemies of the
country, but regarded by women an
archists who greeted them with kisses
as sbeautifuI characters, 100 years
ahead of their times" they so In
creased their following that IL was
easy for them to provide $4,000 or
$4,000 bail In cash or Liberty bonds
Yet fines Of $4,000 each for oppos-
ing the draft were unpaid. They haa
no property. they said
For mort than ten years their de-
portAtion had been agitated and At
times seemed near, but no formal
proceedings for this purpose were In
stituted until the alarming radical ac-
tivities of 1919. including the Seattle
and Winnipeg general strikes, the
sending of bombs through the mails
10 Attorney General Palmer ana
other prominent men, the formation
OF branches of the Communist party
and plans for anarchistic demonstra-
lions on the anniversary Of the fer
nation of the Soviet republic OF Rus
STA which were frustrated by coun-
try-wide raids In November. The
captures In these raids made total
Of 697 anarchists seized by the
United States on deportation proceed
ings In the last two years.
Joined With Belshevists.
When their co-workers, the Nihh
lists In Russia whence they came In
youth, evoluted into the Bolshevfki
and formed the Soviet government
after the downfall OF the monarchy,
Berkman and Miss Goldman cham
ploned a similar government and
social order for this country. Berk-
man. when surrendered for deporta-
ton. predicted that he would return
to the United States as soviet am
eAssador, and Miss Goldman prophe-
sled a revolution here within nve
years
american capitalists are the most
xreedy in the world" she said, and
when the time comes they are going
TO pay a terrible price for 1t. A
thunderous storm Is brewing in the
United States"