The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

148 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST "new Messiahs" of the workers.^13 A few American papers, notably Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, qu ...

IN AMERICA 149 of the Viennese revolution, in which he had participated as a mere lad of sixteen, Hassaurek considered his paper ...

150 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Weitling's conflict with Heinzen, champion of materialism and radical democracy, began as soon as the ...

IN AMERICA 151 February, 1851, however, 10,000 copies were stored in his room as "dead capital." He requested a contribution of ...

152 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ness for figures, he calculated that it would cost $67 to produce an edition of 3,000 a week, provided ...

IN AMERICA 153 and could not resume his editorial functions until the very end of the year. For a part of 1853, Leopold Alberti ...

154 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST his treatise on a universal language soon as a token of his apprecia­ tion for their co-operation. He ...

IN AMERICA of Weitling's theories, not a newspaper in the modern sense of the term. Its advertising was so limited that little r ...

156 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST special articles devoted to such topics as the misery and poverty of New York's "five points" district ...

IN AMERICA 157 for a social revolution. Weitling personally believed that the na­ tional pride of the British was so great, and ...

158 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Perhaps the most striking feature of this labor paper was the relatively little space devoted to curre ...

IN AMERICA 159 Weitling's most extensive contribution on the subject of women's rights appeared in the issue of August 28, 1852, ...

160 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST might view the slavery question in its true light. In 1853, Die Republik der Arbeiter carried a long a ...

IN AMERICA 161 clippings on the subject, but we have no knowledge of what atti­ tude he took on the specific controversies of th ...

162 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST people to support such a flock of parasites. He reviewed his theo­ ries about the unequal burden of th ...

IN AMERICA 163 provided a cultural nourishment and camaraderie which German immigrants sorely missed in puritanical America, and ...

164 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST interest in the bar where good beer was served than in the bar on which they were supposed to practice ...

IN AMERICA 165 university and finance many desirable reforms. Yet, when "Puri­ tanical fanatics" tried to legislate on the perso ...

CHAPTER X X. On Tour for the Cause AS A JOURNEYMAN Weitling had traveled widely in France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German ...

ON TOUR FOR THE CAUSE 167 were touring America at the same time, and with the many foreign and domestic crises of the 1850's—was ...