New-York tribune., 1919-12-13
EnlrnaCOldnlan
Quits Fight to
Remain in U. S.
Valves Weeks Stay Given
by Supreme Court and Is
Prepared to Go to Russia
i'll 10 Days With Berkman

Emma Goldman announced yesterday
that she had abandoned her fight
against deportation. She declared she
would waive her right to appeal to
the United States Supreme Court and
was prepared to be deported to Soviet
Russia within ten days, along with
Alexander Berkman and other alien
anarchists.
Harry Weinberger. her counsel. last
night sent to R. P. Stewart. Assistant
Attorney General. a letter setting forth
that Miss Goldman had decided not to
by the Supreme Court on Thursday. in
which to appeal her deportation order
on the ground that she is an American
citizen by marriage Mr.. Weinberger
said he had assurances that the anar-
chists would depart for Soviet Russia
on an army transport within ten days.
Mean time Miss Goldman, who is at
Ellis Island. will not again be per-
mitted to visit the mainland of the
United States. where she arrived from,
Russia thirty-four years ago.
Won't Seek Soviet Office
will Miss Goldman take part in di-
recting the affairs of the Soviet gov
ernment when she arrives in Russia ?"
Mr.. Weinberger was asked.
She expects to help it along, but
she will not accept offics," he replied.
Over at Ellis Island Miss Goldman,
after deciding to abandon her fight,
dictated her swan song" to her fellow
radicals in this country. She predicted
that before long american citizens
will be deported to the Island of Guam
or some other colonial possession
Il realize" said Miss Goldman, that
c,f IL \ IL.
no protection to any former alien, and
that it may be taken away practically
by the whm of some public official
even without notice or giving the nat
uralized citizen an opportunity to de-
fend his citizenship. which is what was
done in my case Even if the Supreme
Court of the United States should de-
eide that my citizenship is absolutely
correct, that cannot be deported,
which it would probably not do in the
present state of public hysteria, and
even if that court should order me
freed, the day after the government
would start other proceedings to re
woke my citizenship and would succeed
because judges have lost courage and
all sense of justice and fair play.
Defense Denied, She Says
"The apparent cancellation of my citi-
zcnShip by starting an acton against
Jacob A Kersner without giving me an
opportunity to defend or show the fall
sity of the governments position, shows
how any woman married to a natural
lied citizen and feeling secure in her
citizenship, may suddenly find herself
an alien, and because of some opinion
she may hold that may be unpopular,
find herself an arrested alien and de-
ported to the country she may have
come from more than thirty years ago,
as is my case to-day.
Il desire to go as soon as possible to
Soviet Russia, and | expect the govern
ment to keep its promise to deport
Berkman and myself as we'll as other
Russians within ten days, as promised
TO my attorney, Harry Weinberger.
Il do not expect that | will be given
time to. arrange my affairs, as the sud-
den calling for my deportation shows
the hysteria of the government Off
cials, which has communicated itself to
the courts, and to print the tremendous
record of books and exhibits in the
case which the government introduced
would drain nry friends who have so
nobly stood by me, and would be of
little avail, in my opinion, as l have
no faith in the courts. Having lived
thirty-four years in this country, hav-
ing many business and personal affairs
to arrange, yet | do not get time to
settle any of them.
at should be realized by the Amer
lean people tNat these proceedings are
not criminal and l am not being
charged at this time with any crime
merely that | hold belief in system
of society Known as anarchism, and
because of that belief and the ex-
nression of that heljef ar, suddanI,
taken by the administrative arm OF
the government and ordered banishec
from the country as the Car of ole
Russia used to do with those holding
+ opinions different from his.
81 expect, while in soviet Russia
shortly. to read of American-borr
citizens being deported from Americs
to the Island of Guam or some othe,
colonial possession of America, de-
spite the Constitution, which guar.
antees free speech and free press"