Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-06-24
RUSS SOCIALISM : i! |.
IS ROT Ten, ] I SAYS
EMMA \ A. GOLDMAN ! |.
Deported Agitator Has Com
plete Change Of Views
When Faced by Practical
Socialism ants to Re-
turn to Free United States.

A short experience in practical
socialism has completely changed
the, ideas of Emma Goldman, de.
ported from America as an anarch.
ist. ,5 ~
In an interview at Petrograd, Miss
Goldman, whose s9cialistic ideas and
acts have been defended by the Non
partisan league leaders and news.
papers, states that the Russian Sow.
let is rotten, and that she wants to
return to America.
Speaking OF socialism, called Boil
shevism in Russia, Miss Goldman
said to her interviewer:
Russian Soviet Rotten"
"Your'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 our
selves to its faults in America be-
cause we believed 1t might, accom-
push something.
GIVE been here four months now,
and I've seen what it has accom-
plished. There is no health in it.
The state of socialism or state of
call It what you will
has done for Russia what it will do
for every, country. It has taken away
even the little freedom the man has
under individual capitalism and has
made I; him entirely subject: to the
whims Of a bureaucracy which ex-
cuses it's tyranny on the ground it
all is done for the welfare Of the
workers. .s
More Freedom 81 United States
I "Where did you hnd the greater
degree Of freedom, Miss Goldman!"
I asked. I'm the United States or in
communist Russia?'.
Amy form o. government is bad
[enolgh." she replt9f !" hut between
thisf and individual capitalism. the
choice lies with the latter. At least
the individual has . chance to ex-
press his individuality" -.
OF all the deportees who entered
Russia with Miss Goldman, only one
or two have accepted the doctrines of
communism. Miss Goldman, Berk-
man, and Novikov, the leaders Of the
group, refused to work with the gov
eminent In any way except purely
humanitarian labor.
Expects to Go to Jail.
1--WE are studying conditions in
Russia" said Miss Goldman at an
other time. 1--WE want to make trip
through the country districts and
talk with the peasants. Then we will
be ready to speak. We probably will
go to Jail when we start critizing, but
that doesn't matter. We've been in
Jail before. 'We cannot be true to
our principles and not speak"
Miss Goldman and Novikov refus-
ed places in the reviewing stand at
the May day procession, nor will
they accept places at any government
meeting.
emma: "Hit Hartl''
I spent much of my week in Petro-
grad with them. When l was ready
to leave she said to me: "Be careful
what you write, if you want to re-
turn to Russia. If you don't, then
hit out from the shoulder and hit
hard. You may be called. an agent
OF the capitalistic class by the people
in America who don't understand.
IF you are, tell them we have
been here four months and now. I'VE
know. We have Investigated the
factories, homes, and institutions as
no newspaper man can be permitted
to Investigate them, ana we've found
them bad. I know from my CONVEX
sation with you you have gotten at
the heart Of the matter. It's up to
you to tell the American people, and
tell them straight.
This interview was given to John
Clayton, representative Of the Chi
.cago Tribune at Petrograd.
North Dakota is now In its best
summer attire andS the trees in full