The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

228 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ceeded, the less the interest in a centralized bank of exchange be­ came. Weitling sensed what was hap ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 229 to $48,655.53. Horace Greeley advised the printers to emulate the bakers and establish a co-operative ...

230 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST not only the answer to strikes and violence but also the proper method to teach workers "forecast, cal ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES erect a workshop seventy-five feet by thirty feet, equipped with a steam saw, and to build workers' apartm ...

232 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Unfortunately, the evidences of decay began to appear even as these encouraging notices were printed i ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 233 bank of exchange would amount to $50,000 a week, he proposed a plan to have the Arbeiterbund build the ...

234 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ticipated in the enterprise would be able to acquire homes for themselves. By the time Weitling finish ...

CO-OPERATIVE VENTURES 235 propaganda for a proletarian revolution. But the reason for the failures of the Weitlings in America i ...

236 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Weitling's experience is but another example of the fate of most alien radical systems imported into t ...

CHAPTER XIII COMMUNIA, IOWA^1 T he hospitable soil of the young America before the Civil War nurtured many immigrant Utopias. Am ...

238 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST of native-American and immigrant Utopias in the ante-bellum period when the United States was a great ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 239 bund for three years, he predicted, Communia could well be de­ veloped to a point where it would be able to h ...

240 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST (^4) Andrä Dietsch, Das tausendjährige Reich, nebst Plan und Statuten zur Grim- dung von "Neu Helvetia ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 241 (^5) See Joseph Eiboeck, Die Deutschen in Iowa und deren Errungenschaften (Des Moines, 1900), 95. War he recr ...

242 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST unique geological formations. With Koch, who was the first presi­ dent, came Joseph Venus, who later s ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 243 Schau mit Lächeln auf den Käfig, Der mich so gefangen hielt. Singe, was der freie Sanger, Wieder in der Freih ...

244 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST payments that might be made into the central treasury of the Bund from whatever source. When the colon ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 245 geese, and ducks. One hundred dollars was available in ready cash. The total value of the colony was estimate ...

246 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ately in buying coffee, yard goods, and dishes for the colony. In a communication to the "dear brethre ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 247 but not entirely finished inside; that a brickyard was ready to begin operations; that the carpenter and blac ...