St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-04-23
VOLUME 3S---NUMBER 1869.

to the community funds to the amount
of 81. 900. and that he would himself
put i'll $1,000, whereas she AYERS that
the sum total paid in by Wilcox an,
the rest only amounted to S5lO. Th,
community. she SAYS quartered them
selves on her husband. and lived on hi,
crops and credit. She says:
With my own hands, without aid
from even il single Community woman
| have cooked hundreds of meals from
provisions we raised and bought. Ia
feed him and the unfortunate, deceived
persons. whom he and the bold. bad
woman with whom he has affiliated.
have enticrd to come To this Communi
| ty. They were never here
! by right. but by sutfrrance, under
| fraudulent representations. Though
we heSitated to receive them without
efficient aid and funds in the Fall. we
did not turn them away in the Winter.
Look ut all the labor per
| formed 10y all the members of this idle
| Community. and Nou cannot find the
value of 500; nor even enough to pay
! for their fire wood alone. All has been
chaos. anarchy, aud with two or three
honorable exceptions. all, stationed i'll
our houses. We're consumers, mere non
producers. mere visionary theorists -
dead heads and drnncS. BY WillcoN' :
bad management three of our huat>
were wrecked hy him nur dairy prod
ucts have been stolen, consumed and
wasted he has caused over thiItN
barrels of apples rn he frozen i'll the
ont cellars.
,,I ton I.si
through many pages.
The moral character of the Commit
nifty is represented by Mrs. >hipman tn
have been quite a. bad a> the worst
descriptions of il hitherto given. She
calls it "~nd0m. ''h"i bed OF vice.
She alludr> 10 ''hantic rrNclS" and ''or
gieS taking place at meetings of the
members. She declares that all Wa
"l"uecnc>> and promi>cuith and thar
the Community WAS infected with the
ply steal and moral diseases ''uaturalll
ut home with dnt and physical dcgGa
datiun." The free love feature IT the
enterprise. She declares. WIS resisted
10y her husband : and she describes. ar
greater length than We can find space
toI. the Transactions which ended III AN
open rnpturr hctwcrn Wilcox and
Siupman. The community. she h' ~
>al>. Is burst th"ugh Nc have he I'd
that some members of II >till remain nl,
LIcnur l>land. The experiment. Mis-.
>llipmam >ay>. has cost Nh >hipnau
neal S2.n0 and We SUSPECT the gen
tIal verdict will hc thai il serves hIHr
right. for giving his ""nnteuarcr I" Il
scheme. the bad ciarIrrtl of which
Was sufficiently "hNi"i!- from It's "Iigi-
nal prospectus.
Nj. ShiPman. "" are sony I" have f."
add. Is now eudcaI oriuG To- reconstruct
the Dawn NalcnHr Community. lie,
declares i'll his last circular that h,.
wants nothing /" ii" with anything
that lacks III honesty. integrity and
viirne :" hut the tr"ahlt- j. thas people
ut honesty. integrity and VirtUc aIe
not ,rry apt IL engage III social eN-
peIiment> OF tins kind. Our adVic,
Ia him Is 10 let ''iudu>rIial science
fratcrnitlcs' alone: to cultivat" h.
own acres. and to keep as clear as
possible "f progressive minds of tue
liberal aud radical stamp. the ''iu-
du>trial social >cirure community" h' Is
striving tn e>tahli~h i not suited to
tins region. II viii nnr thrive in thu
atmosphere.