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William Bailie in “Liberty” (1891–1906)

January 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The series of articles from the pen of William Bailie, begun in this number under the general title of “Problems of Anarchism,” will probably continue for many months and will deal with most of the sociological questions with which the Anarchistic movement is concerned. I have seen but a small part of the manuscript as yet, but, knowing Comrade Bailie as I do and the excellent articles that he has previously written for Liberty, I feel justified in beginning its publication, regardless of any deviations from Liberty’s chosen path that future chapters may show. I do not expect that his views will differ materially from Liberty’s, but in any case Comrade Bailie’s earnestness and ability furnish a perfect guarantee that the differences which may develop will be worth considering.

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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 […]

William Bailie, “A Mighty Consultation and a Multitude of Diagnoses” (1892)

December 22, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A Mighty Consultation and a Multitude of Diagnoses. REPORTED BY A JUNIOR STUDENT. The patient lay on the operating table in the theatre of the greatest surgical hospital on earth. The Faculty of every known school, seminary, college. and system of medical science was represented on that floor. Leeches in embryo filled the vast galleries, in a remote corner of which sat your humble servant, alongside his friend Publius, a retired physician of wide experience and renown. So vast was his knowledge that not one amid that wise array but Publius […]

William Bailie, “Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist” (1906)

August 9, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] JOSIAH WARREN The First American Anarchist A Sociological Study by WILLIAM BAILIE Boston Small, Maynard & Company 1906 ***** PREFACE The reader may, in confidence, be told that no biography of Josiah Warren has hitherto been written. When the present writer set himself the task, a quarter of a century had elapsed since Warren’s death. Most of the people who had known him personally had also paid the final debt of Nature. Of those remaining, most had known him only in his latter years. It became necessary, therefore, to conduct an independent investigation in order […]

Clarence L. Swartz on Warren and Bailie

June 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Josiah Warren and His Work. Josiah Warren, as Liberty’s readers know, was the original founder and teacher of Philosophical Anarchism in America. A scion of the Massachusetts puritan house of Warren, which numbers among its many distinguished members the revolutionary hero of Bunker Hill, Gen. Joseph Warren, Josiah, who was born in Boston toward the close of the eighteenth century, became one of the most noted social reformers of his time. As the exponent of the doctrine of Individual Sovereignty and Cost the Limit of Price, he blazed the path which Liberty, for twenty-five years, has followed as its […]