the bricklayers' laborers struck because they were desired to wheel
bricks instead of carrying them on their shoulders."]




THE INSPIRATIONISTS,

AT

AMANA, IOWA




THE AMANA COMMUNITY.


I.

The "True Inspiration Congregations," as they call themselves ("_Wahre
Inspiration's Gemeinden_"), form a communistic society in Iowa,
seventy-four miles west of Davenport.

The society has at this time 1450 members; owns about 25,000 acres of
land; lives on this land in seven different small towns; carries on
agriculture and manufactures of several kinds, and is highly prosperous.

Its members are all Germans.