The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-09
EMMA GOLDMAN AND
ALEXANDER BURKMAN
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sunlight for the ten months of con-
finement.

sunlight for the ten months of con-
finement.
Mrs. Harrison came direct to
America after her release and die
tated the material for a book, which
has been published under the title,
"Marooned in Moscow" She wrote
It all from memory, as the soviets
would not allow her to bring away
a scrap of her data, and 1t is re-
cital of the observations of live
American woman who went every
where, met everybody, ventured IN
all the places that a self respecting
woman could go, and who was one
of eight to ten women who sat for
months in little unventilated room
with food handed in to them and
waste and refuse handed out via the
slop can. In her book she tells it
all just as it came to pass, and as
one closes the volume after reading
it all, he remembers that she VEN
tured into Russia to see what was
really doing and she saw 1t. She
was unafraid and she saw it from
all angles. She died by inches In the
foul Prison, had all kinds of COM
panions which the prisons afforded.
including mice, lice, rats and kooties,
and was rescued before she gave up
hope and collapsed.
In her book she made no attempt
to make a hero of herself, admitted
all the time that she did fool
hardy thing and reaped the natural
consequences Of 1t, and expressed no
reproach for any one, not even
blaming herself since she took the
step deliberately, knowing that she
might be shot or imprisoned or sent
out of the country for any one OF
a hundred trivial offenses or tor
something that Americans would
never think was an offense. For ex-
ample, you might answer telephone
call, and find that it was some per-
son who, unknown to you, was under
suspicion of being in sympathy with
the counter-revolutionists, and for
this you might be imprisoned within
the hour.
But to get back again to Goldman
and Burkman, Mrs. Harrison met
them both, and became we'll ac-
auainted with them during her first
eight months in soviet Russia. They
lived at the same hotel, and Burk-
mans room was across the hall from
hers. She found him a gentle and
reasonable little man with his head
full of ideas which he seemed sim
cerely to think would benefit the
world if only. they were put into use.
He was not very strong and had
stomach troubles that were aggra-
waited by having to live so much or
the time on herring and herring soup
and soup made by boiling the eyes,
fins and tails of herring. He simply
could not make it stay down and
it nauseated him terribly. She used
often to enter his room and do for
him when he was too sick to get up,
and she became very sorry for him.
Miss Goldman, she described as
stout and goodnatured, and could
more readily adapt herself to any
kind Of food, however unsavory, and
she frankly admitted that she was
homesick for the good old United
States, and longed for the day when
she could arrange to return. She
worked at anything she could get to
do, and finally secured employment
from the soviet government for her
self and Burkman, compiling a his
tory of the revolution, and Travelled
considerable across the Russias in
a private car. Miss Goldman was
the chief steward when it came to
Quitting the car with provisions,
and got together a very good selec-
ton of edibles that Burkman could
eat and get nourishment from.
After Mrs. Harrison's release from
prison she was too weak to 60 about,
and she does not speak of having
received any further information as
to Burkman and Goldman. She did
not mention seeing Bill Haywood in
her travels.