The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-01-02

is the way Berkman described his at
tack on Prick in his book, prison
Memoirs of an Anarchist"
Berkman's last hour of freedom in
this country expired early this month
in New York while Henry Clay Frick
was being buried in Pittsburg and
mourned as a public benefactor.
Eima Goldman is 40 years old and
Berkman so. She was born in Kovno,
Russia and in early childhood removed
with her parents to East Prussia.
When 10 years old she came to the
United States and started working in
clothing factories in Rochester, N. Y.
Recently asked who her, relatives
Were, Miss Goldman replied: 81 have
children all over the United States"
In 1887 when II 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 re-
voked because he was not 81 when
na~turalized and had not been five
years in the United States. The
marriage ceremony was performed by
a schochet-a slayer of animals for
kosher meat. Two years later the
K%ersners were divorced by a rabbi
according to the Jewish rite. Kersner
seems then to have passed out of
Miss Goldman'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. IL don't believe they
would be foolish enough to try. My
father is an American citizen l marri-
ed an American citizen"
Her father came to the United
States in 1886. one year after her ar
rival, and was n~aturalized at Roches-
ter when his daughter was "a years
old.
Her association with Berkman be-
gan 80 years ago in New York. Other
than that he is so years old and came
from Russia he seems to have
concealed his prior history pretty
well. When he was released from the
western Pennsylvania prison after
serving his time for shooting Mr..
Prick there were reports that he had
married Miss Goldman in New Jersey,
but the marriage was lever recorded
and at their trial for obstructing the
draft both testified they were single.
81 represent the devil" said Miss
Goldman at one Of her meetings. 81
am an apostle upholding 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. Wo-
men are the slaves of little laws and
conventions. They'll learn to break
the laws some day"
Berkman and Miss Goldman made
their headquarters in New York where
their magazines were published, but
they were well-known in every large
city in the United States and also adj
dressed anarchist meetings in Canada,
England, Australia, Holland and other
countries.
These meetings enabled them to live
as comfortably as any despied CAPT.
talist would wish. Admission fees
were charged, circulars sold and sub.
scriptions to their magazines taken
At the last meeting they addressed
in Chicago prior to their deportation
the contributions to help them fight
d%eportations were $4,000. Miss Gold
mans handbook, seized when hel
magazine was suppressed, showed
weekly deposits running from $50 tc
800 with one of over $1,000. They
lived at the best hotels. In fact they
offered to pay their own way to Rus
STA, or, failing that, the difference be
tween %steerage and first-class in order
to have the best accommodations.