Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-23
Anarchy a. a Business.

Alexander Berkman and Emma GOLDMAN
probably inspired more acts against law and
order in this country than any other persons,
alive or dead. They spent 30 years in the
United States. all that time consistently preach
ing the overthrow Of the government by vto-
lence. Berkman spent Is years and Goldman
two years in prison for their own crimes
Neither ever was punished for the part they
played in leading others to commit crime.
Berkman served IA years for shooting
Henry Clay Prick and two years for urging
young men to abstain from registering for the
draft early in the war. Goldman was in prison
two years for opposing CONSUMPTION and one
year for melting to riot. Berkman was never
brought to trial on an indictment for murder
in connection with the Preparedness Cay bomb
outrage in San Francisco. Goldman was &C.
quilted 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 its de-
portation proceedings. The confession Of Cool
gosz described the influence which Miss Gold
mans writings had on him.
Their influence was traced in the dynamit-
ing of the Los Angeles Times. Matthew
Schmidt and David Captain. now in Jail with
others for that crime. were "of the Goldman
clam Attorney General Palmer has said.
They were suspected of receiving German
money to oppose preparedness by the United
States before the United States entered the war.
They cooperated with German spies in en-
deavoring to promote revolution in India dur
ing the war.
They were the pioneer radicals in the
United States. Now there are $4,000 reds here
and 472 disloyal foreign language newspapers,
according to Attorney General Palmer.
In spite OF their written and spoken exhor-
tations to commit acts Of violence neither ever
defended violence when. brought into court.
THE anarchist never advocates a reign of
terror" said Berkman. "Anarchism means the
negation of violence Anarchists teach self
reliance. cooperation and mutual aid in oppo-
sition to existing institutions and authority"
Yet Berkman shot Henry Frick in the back
without giving him a chance to defend himself
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Goldman said: Il represent the devil am
an apostle unfolding glorious freedom, the
apostle standing out against law and order
and decency and morality. l am for the devil
who leads the way to the absolute yielding up
to all the emotions here and now. Women are
the slaves OF little laws and conventions
They'll learn to break the laws some day"
Neither Berkman nor Goldman ever had
trouble furnishing bail of $4,000 to $4,000 in
cash or Liberty bonds. They made theft head.
quarters in New York. where their magazines
& were published and delivered lectures in this
and other countries. They always charged adj
mission and sold pamphlets and their income
was considerable. They travelled first class and
stopped at the most expensive hotels. At the
last meeting they addressed in Chicago $4,000