Evening star., 1919-12-22

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 Miss
Goldman championed a similar govern
ment and social order for this country.
Berkman when surrendered for deporta-
ton predicted that he would return to
the United States as soviet ambassador
and Miss Goldman prophesied a revolu-
tion here within five years.
american capitalists are the most
greedy in the world" she said. rand
when the time comes they are going to
pay terrible price for it. thunder
Gus storm is brewing i'll the United
States"
Yet when given opportunity during
Their many Appearances in court to air
their views they repudiated violence.
The anarchist never advocates a
reign of terror" said Berkman. AN
archism means the negation of violence.
tion and mutual aid in opposition to ex
isting institutions and authority"
In reply to one such exposition after
Bertman's conviction in New York for
opposing the draft. the United States
attorney said to the court:
Shot Frick in the Back.
The court should know that this
man who now claims to be for uni
versal peace and says he is against
Mr. Frick's office Gin Pittsburgh ard
trled to shoot him down without Civ
ing his victim an opportunity to de-
Tend himself. He shot him IL Tie
back as he would a dog"
The first terrorist act in America"
IS the way Berkman described his
attack on Frick in his book. Prison
Memoirs of an Anarchist"
Be-kmans last hour of freedom in
this country expired early this month
in New York city while Henry Clay
Frick was being buried in Pittsburgh
Emma Goldman is forty-nine years
old and Berknan fifty. She was born
IN kovna- Russia, and in early child
hood removed with her parents to
East Prussia. When fifteen years old
she came to the United States and
started working in clothing factories
in Rochester. n. Y.
Emma Goldman's Career.
Recently asked who her relatives
were. Miss Goldman replied: Il have
children all over the United States"
In 1887, when seventeen years old,
she was married in Rochester to Jacob
A. Kersner, who came from Russia
in 1882 and was naturaliZed two years
later In 1909 his citizenship was
revoked because he was not twenty
one when naturaliZed and had not
been five years in the United States.
The marriage ceremony was perform
ed by a schochet-a slayer of animals
for kosher meat. Two years later
the Kersners were divorced by a rab-
bi according to the Jewish rite. Kers-
ner seems then to have passed out of
Miss Go1dman's life entirely. for an
nouncement in court during her final
fight against deportation that he had
died this year took her by surprise.
1t was on a claim that marriage to
him made her a citizen that her legal
efforts to. remain in this country were
based.
"They can't keep me out she said
in 1907 when there was talk of de-
porting her. st don't believe they
would be foolish enough to try. nv
father is an American citizen.
married an American citizen" Her
father came to the United States in
1886. one year after her arrival.
and was naturalized at Rochester
when his daughter was twenty-four
years old.
Association With Berkman.
Her association with Berkman be-
gan thirty years ago in New York.
Other than that he is fifty years old
and came from Russia, and he seems
to have concealed his prior history
pretty we'll. When he was released