Published Essays and Pamphlets

TRIAL AND SPEECHES
of
Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

In the United States District Court,
in the City of New York
July, 1917
with portraits

FOR SALE AT THE
MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION,
226 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y.

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CONTENTS

• "A Tribute," poem by Josephine Bell, from The Masses, August, 1917

• Epigraph by Emma Goldman and Foreword by Harry Weinberger

• "Impressions of the Trial" by Guido Bruno, excerpted from Pearson's Magazine

• "The Trial and Conviction of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman," by Leonard D. Abbott

• Opening Session

• Motion for Dismissal

• Introductory Address by the Prosecutor, Harold A. Content, July 2, 1917

• Photographic Portrait of Alexander Berkman

• Alexander Berkman's Introductory Address, July 3, 1917

• Discrimination Against the Defense
  Goldman's objection to the court's treatment of supporters of Goldman and Berkman during the proceedings

• Address by Alexander Berkman

• Emma Goldman's Address to the Jury, July 9, 1917

• Photographic Portrait of Emma Goldman

• Address of Harold A. Content, Assistant United States Attorney, to the Jury, July 9, 1917

• The Court's Charge

• The Verdict

• Testimony for the Defense
  During the examination of numerous witnesses for the defense, excerpts from the following essays by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were read to the jury:
  • "Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter,"
    by Emma Goldman, first published in Mother Earth, Vol. X, no. 10, December 1915, and also as a pamphlet

  • "The Psychology of Political Violence"
    by Emma Goldman, published in Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

  • "Aspirations of the Blast,"
    by Alexander Berkman, published in The Blast, Vol. 1, no. 2

  • "Violence and Anarchism,"
    by Alexander Berkman, published in The Blast, Vol. I, no. 17

  • "A New Declaration of Independence,"
    by Emma Goldman, published in Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909

• Advertisements for anarchist literature for sale by Mother Earth Publishing Association and other publications, including Pearson's Magazine and The Masses

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