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J. William Lloyd, et al., “White-Flag Anarchism”—A Debate (1894)

December 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] J. William Lloyd, “White-Flag Anarchism—A Color Line,” Liberty 10 no. 6 (July 28, 1894): 9. Lizzie M. Holmes, “That ‘Color Line,’” Liberty 10 no. 7 (August 11, 1894): 8. C. J. Zeitinger, “The White Flag” Liberty 10 no. 7 (August 11, 1894): 8. J. William Lloyd, “White Anarchism, Force and Sentiment,” Liberty 10 no. 9 (September 8, 1894): 8. William Bailie, “Away with the Red Flag,” Liberty 10 no. 9 (September 8, 1894): 8–9. E. C. Walker, “Timely Utterance to Sane Thought,” Liberty 10 no. 11 (October 6, 1894): 5. F. D. Tandy, “Reds We […]

J. William Lloyd, “The Red Heart in a White World” (1898)

December 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE RED HEART IN A WHITE WORLD. A SUGGESTIVE MANUAL OF FREE SOCIETY, CONTAINING A METHOD AND A HOPE. BY J. WILLIAM LLOYD Author of “WIND HARP Songs” “The institution of the dear love of comrades”—Walt Whitman SECOND EDITION WESTFIELD, N. J. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1898 A state of society in which the inoffensive man is as free as Robinson Crusoe, yet in a world of brothers if he will; in which crime is discouraged in spirit and restrained in fact; in which helplessness is supported, weakness defended, and loss […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, et al., “The Whisper Song of the Catbird” (1911)

December 18, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

September 14, 1908.—Yesterday, while a visitor was mending his automobile down near the woodpile, I noticed the low singing of a bird, apparently very close and behind me, in some tall weeds between the grape-vines and the woodpile. Today I heard it again, and thought it a Catbird’s voice. After repeated trials, I at last located the singer. He was a Catbird, not over four or five feet from me, sitting trustfully on a stick among the weeds, quite unconcerned, and singing in such a low, fine voice that I could only just hear him.

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J. William Lloyd, “Forced or Free—The Two Socialisms” (1902)

October 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THAT the drift of evolution is toward socialism few thinkers doubt. It appears in education, religion, industry, government, everything. All over the world free schools, free libraries, free reading rooms, etc., reveal a profound conviction that knowledge is a human birthright. In religion there is a rapidly accelerating tendency to waive dogma, leave creed to conscience, & concentrate on humanitarian work. Proposals to rub out sectarian lines & minimize sects are heard every day, and as a matter of almost unconscious fact such unity is every day being attained. Practically only some half-a-dozen sects remain, & these faded.

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Poems of J. William Lloyd

July 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 0px”] “Stephen Pearl Andrews,” Fair Play 1 no. 30 (January 5, 1889): 1. “Moses Harman,” Liberty 7 no. 2 (April 24, 1890): 1. “Third Avatar of Woman,” Our New Humanity 1 no. 1 (September 1895): 64. “A Grandeur and a Dreaming,” The Whim 2 no. 2 (September 1901): 110. “Written at Walt Whitman’s Grave” The Conservator 13 no. 11 (January, 1903): 165. “An Ocean Prayer,” Free Society 10 no. 23 (June 7, 1903): 1. “Storm-Glass,” The New Review 1 (February 8, 1913): 188. “The Keen of the Cold,” The New Review 1 (March 15, 1913): 350. […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, “Prayer of the Governmentalist” (1886)

August 11, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For Lucifer Prayer of the Governmentalist. Our Government which is in Washington—hallowed be thy name! May thy Kingdom become, and thy will be done, in America even as the Czar’s is in Russia! Give us this day a chance at some big fat office, and remit to us our taxes according to tho amount we have loaned thee on thy bond, with interest, and grant to us favors in consideration of our efficiency at election times! Lead us not into Liberty, and deliver us from Anarchy; for behold, we are altogether too stupid and greedy to comprehend or endure them! […]

J. Wm. Lloyd, “A Free Socialist” (1895)

August 10, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

My statement that henceforth I was no Anarchist, but a Free Socialist, was intended to refer to my public profession. Having stated that my view of Anarchism was that it was the doctrine “that the invasion of one human being by another was in the highest degree wrong, foolish, dangerous, and inexpedient—that this was Anarchism and this only,” and having, in conclusion, stated that my renunciation of the name Anarchist did “not mean any change of views,” it, of course, follows that, although I reject the name Anarchist, I, in my heart, still regard myself as one.

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J. William Lloyd, “A Grandeur and a Dreaming” (1901)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

HUMAN Life seems but a seeming, A phantasm & a dreaming, Of a grandeur & a gleaming That no one life may possess. ‘Tis a downward, dark ward groping, Upward soaring, high and hoping Search for pathways, easy-sloping, That no human feet yet press. Yet it may be that the glory, Dreamed of now since ages hoary, Kindling still in song and story, Each man somewhat, all men know. All the downward, dark ward groping, All the sky-ward, sunward hoping, Finds at last the roadway sloping, Where all feet together go. J Wm. Lloyd. J. William Lloyd, “A Grandeur and […]

J. William Lloyd, “The World’s Future—A Prophecy” (1882)

March 22, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE WORLD’S FUTURE—A PROPHECY. I BELIEVE that a time is approaching when terrestrial nature, at least, will be in almost complete subjection to mankind. Man will then indeed be “the lord of creation.” The deserts will be turned into inland seas, or converted by irrigation into fertile and fruitful plains. The swamps will be ditched and drained until they become the very gardens of the earth, and the planting of malaria-destroying vegetation and other sanitary precautions will render them as healthful as the most salubrious locations. A similar plan to that […]