Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — Berkman Leader of Anarchists. [ARTICLE]

Berkman Leader of Anarchists.

Alexander Berkman was greeted by the meeting of New York anarchists Sunday as their new leader, and money was contributed to pay the expense of publishing his forthcoming book telling of his fourteen years of imprisonment at Pittsburg for the attempt to assassinate Frick. Berkman was introduced by Emma Goldman, who said th**y were proud of Berkman. because he had come out of prison “with a bigger, greater heart for the sufferings of down-trodden humanity," with which remark she gave him a reverent kiss. Berkman said he was the same man who had shot Frick and that under the same circumstances he would do the same thing again. He said that American prisons were more inhuman than those in Russia. Both he and Miss Goldman denied the story that they had been married, as neither of them believed in any sort brTesTrlcHon of their Individual freedom, but they did not deny that -they were living in the relation of man and wife.