New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Pioneer Anarchists Leuue
Crop of 90, 900 Reds In u. s..
10 of Berkman's 80 Years Here Spent in Prison and
Goldman Spent in Cell; Treason, Bombs, Even
McKinley's Assassination Laid to Their Teachings

The deportation of Emma Goldman
and her devoted companion, Alexander
Berkman, ends q joint career of thirty
years in the United States, during
which they preached the overthrow of
government by violence. He spent six
teen years and she three in Jail, but
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 opposing con-
scription and one year for melting
to riot. Rerkman was never brought
to trial on an Indictment for murder
IN connection with the Preparedness
Day bomb outrage in San Francisco.
Miss Goldman was acquitted of illegal
distribution Of birth control literature.
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,
helped cause the assassination of
President Mckinley, the government
charged in it's deportation proceedings.
The confession of Czolgosz described
the influence which Miss Godman's
writings had on him.
Influenced COarf Dvuon,itorc
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 receiving
German money to oppose preparedness
here before the United States entered
the war
They cooperated 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 co.
600 Reds" here and 472 disloyal for
ignlanguage newspapers, according to
Attorney 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, a hum
dred years ahead Of their times" they
SO Increased their following that it
was easy for them to provide $4,000
or $4,000 bail in cash or Liberty bonds
Yet fines of $4,000 each for opposing
the draft were unpaid. They had no
property, they said.
Deportation Urged 10 Years
For more than ten years their depor-
tation had been agtated and at times
seemed near, but no formal proceed
ings for this purpose were instituted
until the alarming radical activities
of 1919, including the Seattle and Win
nipeg general 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 anar-
chistic demonstrations on the anniver
sary of the formation of the Soviet
Republic of Russia, which were frus
trated by countrywide raids in Novem
bcr These raids made a total of 697
anarchists seized by the United States
on deportation proceedings in the last
two years.
When their co-workcrs, the Nihlists
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