Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1919 — EMMA AND RED SAY THEY WILL BE [ARTICLE]

EMMA AND RED SAY THEY WILL BE

New York, Dec. 21. [Special.] — Snarling at the United States government and United States officials, 249 rabid “Reds” defied America as they were deported for an unknown port on board the United States transport Buford. Although flanked on their side by husky, - khaki-clad and fully armed marines, Emma Goldman, her beady eyes almost closed, shouted: “This is the beginning of the end of the United States! I shall be back in America. We shall all be back. lam proud to be among the first deported! The czar in all his career never treated his subjects as we are being treated.” Huddled on the decks in small but defiant groups, the Reds kept shouting vilifications. “Long live the revolution in America,” was chanted defiantly by the motley crowd. Now and then they cursed in chorus at the United States and the men who had cut short their propaganda here. Not until the Buford steamed out of the narrows between Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth did the din cease. Over their heads, whipping in the wind, the Stars and Stripes floated from the masthead. The departure of the “Soviet ark” today was only of deportation of ilfindreds and perhaps thousands of radicals. spreading their propaganda throughout the nation, according to government officials. The names of more than 60,000 “Reds” are on the “mailing list” of Uncle Sam and he is preparing to round them up for free passage to their native countries.' I It was declared todasr that the second installment for Russia will be sent from Ellis Island in about two weeks.