The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-01-02
Outline OF Career
OF Notorious Emma
Goldman and BeCkman

The deportation last week of Emma
Goldman and her devoted companion,
Alexander Berkman, ends a joint
career of 80 years in the United States
during which they preached the over
throw of government by violence. He
spent 16 years and she three years in
Jail, but they were never punished for
the part their teachings played in at
lacks by others on life and property.
Berkman served fourteen years for
shooting Henry Clay Prick and two
years for urging young men to alb
stain from registering for the draft
early in the war. Miss Goldman was
in prison two years for opposing con-
scription and one yeal for melting to
riot. Berkman was never brought to
trial on an indictment for murder in
connection with the Preparedness Day
bomb outrage in San Francisco. Miss
Goldman was acquitted of illegal dis
tribution 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 it's deportation proceedings.
The confession of Czolgosz described
the influence which Miss Goldman's
writings had on him.
Their influence was traced in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times.
Matthew Schmidt and David Captain,
now in Jail with others for that crime,
were "of the Goldman clan," Attorney
General Palmer has said.
They were suspected of receiving
German money to oppose prepared
ness by the United States before the
United States entered the war.
They cooperated with German spies
in endeavoring to promote a revolution
in India during the war.
They were the pioneer radicals in
the United States. Now there are
10000 Reds here and 472 disloyal
foreign language newspapers, accord
ing to Attorney General Palmer.
Denounced by judges and other pub
lie officials from President Roosevelt
down as enemies of the country seek
ing to destroy it but regarded by wo-
men anarchists who greeted them with
kisses as beautiful characters, 100
years ahead of their times" they so
increased their following that it was
easy for them to provide $4,000 or
$4,000 bail in cash or Liberty bonds.
Yet fines of $4,000 each for opposing
the draft were unpaid. They had nc
property, they said.
For more than 10 years their depor-
tation had been agitated and at times
seemed near but no formal proceed
ings for this purpose were instituted
until the alarming radical activities
of 1919, including the Seattle and
Winnipeg general strikes, the sending
of bombs through the mails to Attor-
N" al Palmer and other prom
he formation of branches
mis- party and plans for
Pas 1nstrations on the
the formation OF the
..G of Russia, which were
0y countrywide raids in
r. These raids made a total
anarchists seized by the United
.es on deportation proceedings in
the last two years.
When their co-workers, the Nihilists
in Russia, whence they came in youth
evoluted into the Bolsheviki and form
ed the Soviet government after the
downfall of the monarchy, Berkman
and Miss Goldman championed a
similar government and social order
for this country. Berkman when sur
rendered for deportation predicted
hat he would return to the United
States as Soviet ambassador and Miss
Goldman prophesied a revolution here
within five years.
American capitalists are the most
greedy in the world" she said, land
when the time m they are going
to pay a terrible price for it. A
thunderous storm is brewing in the
United States"
Yet when given opportunity during
their many appearances in court to
air their views they repudiated viol-
ence.
THE anarchist never advocates a
reign of terror" said Berkman. "An.
archism means the negation of VOL
ence. Anarchists teach self-reliance,
cooperation and mutual aid in opposi.
ton to existing institutions and au.
thority."
In reply to one such exposition after
Berkman's conviction in New York