Month: April 2007

Anarchism

An early mutual banking proposal

April 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’m wrapping up my first exploration of The Spirit of the Age (a little more rapidly than I had hoped, thanks to an Interlibrary Loan mix-up), and am already planning a road trip to scan more of this really important mutualist paper. My lengthy side-trip, from the William B. Greene research through the work of Joshua King Ingalls and ultimately to The Spirit of the Age, has paid an unexpected dividend (if, in this context, I can safely speak about the paying of dividends)—a discussion of Mutual Banking in the 1850 volume which casts Greene’s work in a somewhat different […]
Anarchism

J. K. Ingalls, “Address to Commonwealers”

April 2, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Joshua King Ingalls, “Address to Commonwealers,” The Twentieth Century, XIII, 2 (July 12, 1894), 11. ADDRESS TO COMMONWEALERS BY J. K. INGALLS. Hirelings who for gold have bled!Voters to polls by bosses led!Toilers, begging “work or bread,” Strike for Liberty!Now’s the day and now’s the hour!Cease to court the oppressors’ power!Who threaten, bribe, while they devour Your fruits of industry. Decline their deal the ballot boxTheir “leaden diet” cartridge box!Detective trick and brutal knocks! Brave thought against them try!In no “god of battles trust!”Give nor take what is not just!And only die, when die you must, As man for man […]
From the Archives

William Henry Van Ornum, “Co-operation” (1894)

April 1, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] There are whole books tucked away in the pages of the periodical literature, which have never seen separate publication. One of the pleasures of my current treasure hunt is finding some of those hidden books. William Henry Van Ornum, author of Why Government at All?, published his 19-part Co-operation in The Twentieth Century. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Co-Operation William Henry Van Ornum from the pages of The Twentieth Century, May 10–September 20, 1894 Introduction In England Its Ideal Ancient Co-operation Some Experiments Various Schemes Various Schemes European Credit Banks European Credit Banks European Credit […]