The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

168 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST one of his most charming addresses, a speech which had little to do with propaganda, and which was dev ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 169 He was greatly depressed when he found it necessary to spend Sunday in Bridgeport, a town "as still as ...

170 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST far better than in New York. A few miles from Troy, he ad­ dressed an assembly of German picnickers an ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 171 meeting house of these pietists who lived by "inspiration," without the services of preachers, and des ...

172 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST the seat of his ill-fated experiment in colonization, for he wrote from upper New York that he must hu ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 173 he was convinced that three successful demonstrations in com­ munal living would be sufficient to affe ...

174 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Kalamazoo, he discovered his old collaborator in Switzerland, Simon Schmidt, now working as a tanner. ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 175 wave, swarms of mosquitoes, and a cholera epidemic. The results for the Arbeiterbund, however, were me ...

176 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST only of the "holy cause" for which he had fought so long in Eu­ rope and which now at last was coming ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 177 old Romanesque temple built by followers of Joseph Smith. An imposing structure with emblems of the su ...

178 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST lished a paper known as the Popular Tribune, but tolerated no religious services of any kind. Weitling ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 179 der Arbeiter promptly endorsed his cause. One mishap marred this otherwise happy experience in the Ohi ...

180 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST faith in the Second Coming! Weitling marveled that the leaders of the community were able to enforce c ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE a total of $540 for the co-operative movement and other "League purposes." He was honor guest at a great " ...

182 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST their meetings, but their ambitious plan to print a labor paper had ended in failure. Weitling was gre ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 183 colony known as Bethel, founded by Wilhelm Keil. Keil had been a ladies' tailor in Darmstadt. He came ...

THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST seemed to elude even so favorable an observer from the outside world as Weitling. Keil and two others appa ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 185 of the "company." At certain seasons of the year, laborers were hired outside the community for $6 to ...

186 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ported illnesses to collect their insurance. The entire experience strengthened his determination to f ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE Arbeiterbund, who sang special songs written for the workers' movement. From such experiences the impracti ...