The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

248 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST and opposition was rising to centralization under Weitling's leadership and to integration of the sett ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 249 wisps in his day, but he was honest and genuinely devoted to those who faithfully followed his leadership. On ...

250 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST and win the confidence of the rank and file of the Arbeiterbund. Weitling proposed a plan of represent ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA sheet showed receipts totaling $5,666, which included $1,408 from five members of the original colony who were st ...

252 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST here like a king, without care and without want." Robert Meyer, secretary of the Bund, who traveled fr ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 253 lous legal status of the colony, the land could have been bought and entered only by an individual, and under ...

254 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST inadequate to keep the project alive, the unhappy leader already was busy with plans for a new colony ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 255 practically the same detailed plan for organization and administra­ tion to be found in the Garantieen. These ...

256 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST surrender all deeds and mortgages to the Workingmen's League of Communia. He translated the major port ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 217 rivals included farmers, a physician, three women, and artisans from Baltimore, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Ph ...

258 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST On the Fourth of July, forty Americans came to Communia from Elkader, in twelve wagons. They brought a ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 259 When Weitling vigorously opposed such a preposterous proposal, some of the colonists renewed their attacks on ...

260 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST and ambition" that unfortunately characterized the human family. Now he had the opportunity, albeit un ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 261 for the flour mill had corroded in the open air; and that, after three months' delay, the teamsters had not y ...

262 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST the new administrator considered proper. Obviously everything was in confusion, from prices and produc ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 263 unnecessary. The New York Tribune of October 24, 1853, re­ ported the discovery of a lead mine in Clayton Cou ...

264 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST "L.A." (probably the acting editor, Leopold Alberti) which lauded the administration of the colony and ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 265 Bund had received full security for their investments, a promise which obviously could mean no more than issu ...

266 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST convinced that four or five individuals living in the colony were the ringleaders who were determined ...

COMMUNIA, IOWA 267 pay outstanding bills and continued to file monthly reports. Un­ daunted by the mounting crisis, he described ...