Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-18

long as they dld not invade the rights
of others.
The invaders unquestiOnably, how
ever, hurt the cause of the Individual
lists. AS Mr.. Warren himself wrote:
"One man began to advocate plural
ity of wives and published a paper TO
support his views; another believed
clothing to be supertiuity, and no.
only attempted to practice his AdamiC
theories in person, but inflicted his
views upon his hapless children. 4
woman with an ungainly form dis
played herself in public IN mems at
tire which gave rise to newspaper
comment 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-
duced to a skeleton she died within
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 prin-
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
ing a living for himself. After that
industrial conditions caused many of
the pioneers and most of the cranks
to leave, 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 -piou-
GERS still surviving.
Mr.. Warren himself, although
greatly interested in theories of indi-
yidual 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
the activities of a 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 dismally as com
munistic and socialistic attempts have
success. His invention of
the cylinder printing press in the |
years 1880 to 1892 was his most mon |
achievement Improved meth |
DDS Of stereotyping also received a |
great deal of his attention about 1910 |
invented are now in use in the finer |
classes Of stereotype work. He died |
at Princeton, Massachusetts, in 1874. |
The conceptions which now go un-
der the name of philosophical anarch- |
Ism" spread from Mr. Warren's few |
DuDlIE dUAI E5St5 anu oIdLLSIEu Will
ngs to England and other countries, |
where the American idea of accom-
Dlishing results through individual eff
'ort and voluntary association instead |
If by governmental fat appealed
strongly to advanced and original
thinkers. In a letter written toward
he end Of his life Mr.. Warren sum
ned up his philosophy of society in
he following statement: Almost
With fear and trembling I ventured
ears ago to offer one, on condition
hat | should preserve my freedom to
hange ii whenever increasing
should show its defects;
nd gave the sovereignty Of every
Individual over his or her person,
ime. property, and possibilities;
nd here I add, reputation" That is
be kind Of anarchism which first
rev up on American soil.