Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-06-24

long as they dld not invade the rights
OF others.
The invaders unquestionaoly, how
ever, hurt the cause of the individual
lists. AS Mr.. Warren himself wrote:
zone man began to advocate plural
ity OF wives and published paper to
support his views; another believed
clothing to be superfuity. and not
only attempted to practice his Adamic
theories in person, but inflicted his
views upon his hapless children. A
woman with. an ungainly form dis
played herself in public In mems at
tire which gave rise to newspaper
comm emit that: "The women dressed
in mems clothes and looked hideous.
Still another young woman had the
diet mania so severely that after liv-
ing upon beans without salt until re-
ducec to a skeleton she died within a
year"
The burdens which the real settlers
at Brentwood had to bear on account
Of these unbalanced persons were
very real, but because they respected
the rights of others and accorded lib
erty to do even the silliest things,
knowing that experience and the prfn-
ciple which allows such things to be
done at each ones own cost, would
work the surest cure, they never in
terfered.
The financial depression of 1857
bankrupted the paper box manufac-
tory which one member had estab-
lished at Brentwood as a means OF
providing work for others and Of max
inA a living for himself. After that
in ,ustrial conditions caused many OF
the pioneers and most ~ the cranks
osleave. although the cooperative
tendencies of the little community
and the pleasant external features of
Brentwood have wasted down to this
time, two or three of the original pion-
GERS still surviving.
Mr.. Warren himself, although
greatly interested in theories Of indi-
vidual initiative and although very
practical and competent so far as his
own work was concerned, had the
weakness of his qualities in that he
lacked the Gift of leadership This
lack, together with the difficulty OF CO.
ordinating the activities Of small
community with a big business world
run on extremely different principles.
is held by Mr.. Baltic to account for
the circumstance that while his equity
villages never failed dismaliy as COM
munistic and soc' alistic attempts have
failed. none of them has proved an
unqualified success His invention Of
the cylinder printing press in the
years 1880 to 1882 was his most mon
umental achievement. Improved meth.
DDS Of stereotyping also received a
great deal of his attention about 1870
10 1S45. and the processes which he
invented are now in use in the finer
classes Of stereotype work. He died
at Princeton, MASSACHUSETTS. in 1874.
The, conceptions which nosy 20 IN
der the name of philosophical anarch-
Ism" spread from Mr. Warren's few
public addresses and scattered writ
iugs to England and other countries,
where the American idea Of accom-
plishing results through individual 81
fort and voluntary association Instead
OF by governmental fat appealsi
strongly to advanced and original
thinkers. In a letter written toward
the end OF his life Mr.. Warren sum
med up his philosophy OF society in
the following statement: Almost
with fear and trembling ventured
years ago to offer one, on condition
that I should preserve my freedom .
change It whenever increasing
knowledge should show It's defects;
and gave the sovereignty Of every
individual over his Or her person.
time, property and responsibilities; =
and here I add, reputation. That IS
the kind Of anarchlsm which drst
grew up on American sol.