The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-06-25
EMMA GOLDMAN
ALREADY SICK OF
RUSSIAN SYSTEM
DEPORTED ANARCHIST SAYS
CONDITIONS THERE ARE
ROTTEN" AMERICA NOW
LOOKS GOOD TO HER.

II.
In a copyright cable news article
tC the Spokesman Review of Spokane
and the Tribune of Chicago, Jonr
Clayton, says:
PARIS, June 17.-On the bureau
Of Emma Goldman's room in the no.
tel Astoria at Petrograd, draped
over corner of the picture of her
niece. is the American flag.
Emma Goldman, deported from
America as an anarchist, makes no
apologies for this flag.
The communist leaders living at
the hotel "josh" her a little about
it. but Emma says:
That's the flag of my niece's
country. I am going back there some
Gay. for I love America as I love no
other land"
Emma Goldman is sick of Bolshe-
vik Russia. When l called on her in
Fetrograd she asked:
what do you think of it? You
have been here six weeks. How do
you feel about it"
at is rotten" l replied. It's so
rotten I am sick with it,
you're Right, 1t is Rotten"
you're right, it is rotten" she
said. "But it is what we should have
expected. We always knew the
MARKHAM theory was impossible, a
breeder of tyranny. We blinded
ourselves to its faults in America be-
cause we believed it might accom-
plish something.
give been here four months now
and I've seen what it has accomplish
ed There is no health in it. The
state of socialism or state of cap-
talism-call it what you will-has
done for Russia what it will do for
every other country. It has taken
away even the little freedom the man
has under individual capitalism and
has made him entirely subject to the
whims of bureaucracy which ex-
cuses its tyranny on the ground il
all is done for the welfare of the
workers"
"Where did you find the greater
degree Of freedom, Miss Goldman
| asked, ain the United States or in
communist Russia?"
"Any form of government is bad
enough" she replied, "but between
bolshevism and capitalism the choice
lies with the latter. At least the in
dividual has a chance to express his
individuality"
Of all the deportees who entered
Russia with Miss Goldman, only one
or two have accepted the doctrines
Of communism. Miss Goldman
Berkman and Novikov, the leaders of
the group. refused to work with the
government in any way except pure
~ humanitarian labor.
"We are studying conditions II
Russia" said Miss Goldman at an
other time, eve want to make a TRIP
through the country districts anc
talk with the peasants. Then we vii
be ready to speak. We probably will
20 to jail when we start criticizing
but that doesn't matter. We've beer
ir Jail before. We can not be true tc
our principles and not speak"
Miss Goldman and Novikov refused
places in the reviewing stand at tbs
MAY day procession, nor will they ac-
cept places at any government meet
ing.
| spent much of my week in Petro-
grad with them. When I was ready
to leave she said to me.
"Be careful what you write, il
YOU want to return to Russia. II
you don't. then hit out from the
shoulder and hit hard You may DC
called an agent of the capitalistic
class by the people in America who
don't understand.
Tell America That We Know.
IF you are, tell them that we have
heen here four months and now W;
know. We have investigated tbs
factories, homes, and institutions a
no newspaper man can he permitte'
to investigate them and we've fount
them bad I know from my conver
sation with you. you have gotten a
the heart Of the matter II is up Il
you to tell the American people ant
tel them straight"
And that is what intend to do
Emma Goldman has found as | did
that the best cure for bolshevism i
trip 10 bol~hevik Russia. She toll
me to hit out straight from tn
ehouldor. We'll. rs an American II
let that little flag on Emma's bureau
hit for nae