The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-13
MIR. GAINES PLANT.
Thinks His Paper is Being Treated
Unfairly by Postal Authorities.

planned by the postoffice department the
Farmers Advocate of which H. N.
Gaines is chief owner and Mrs. Annie l..
Diggs is editor, has been denied the priv
ilege of transmission through the mails as
second class matter The result of this
ruling is that the Advocate company now
papers it sends out instead of sending
them at the rate of one cent pound
which takes one back to the days of the
Omaha platform and the early sos. so
fierce is its denunciation of the ''nefari-
Gus Republican administration
The suSpensfon has IS; son 1 TO 90
ton of papers to persons who are not
bona fide subscribers, but just why or by
known. 1t is said that a similar order
will soon be made against the Appeal to
Reason, the socialistic paper published at
Girard, which publishes an immense num-
Der of papers. A Socialistic magazine
which has been published at Los Angeles.
York. has also fallen under the ban of the
order suppressing the circulation OF free
Mr.. Gaines circular starts out as fol-
s.THIs OUGHT TO MAKE YOUR
BLOOR BOIL
Dear Brother: Prepare yourself to re-
rage ever perpetrated in free America.
The Republican administration has begun
its nefarious work of suppressing news
papers and thus end forever the freedom
of the press One by one the reform pa
work is accomplished the people may cry
in vain for relief. The blow has fallen in
liberty loving Kansas The authorities at
Advocate from the use of the mails as
second class matter: A cent a paper is
paper is carried Republican papers are
carried for cent a pound Shades of
to the barbarisms of tbs. dark ages? O,
men of free Americai We appeal to you
our rights taken from us and say moth
ing, do nothing? Has the spirit of our
you permit the Republican administration
to take away the rights of the people and
your protest? The Farmers Advocate has
been denied the of the mails at pound
The first notice we have had is suspend
ed, except the word sent US from our
Washington authorities. Can you think
of anything more damnable unfair
And And can you find government on earth 1
you give your silent sanction to such an
outrage? Ny eountrynen, II such work
hour of the republic is near at hand. Can
you let the death knell Of liberty sound
in your ears and not resist2 The tears of
widows and orphans for generations yet
unborn viii flow in rivers in q vain ap-
ton with your silence and inaction. Is
it possible that night, sable as the god
deSS of the abyss, is coming so soon? Is
there no hope for the toiling millions
Can not a paper in liberty loving Kansas
a people that will let mammon bind them
in chains"
Then follows promise to keep up the
good work until the common people sit
upon the throne and justice swings her
mighty scepter over all mankind" but
along with it is an appeal for the neces-
sary dollar and along with a statement
that the person addressed is a bona fide
subscriber to the Farmers Advocate so
that there will be a long list of names
when it comes to make the showing be-
fore the postoffice department which Mr.
Gaines has been asked to be allowed to
make.
The circular continues:
90, comrades, friends of a common
cause, brothers of humanity We appeal
to you in this. the darkest hour of re-
form, to stand by the paper that has done
much for you. Stand by the rights of
the country. Stand by your homes and
firesides Down with the wrong herever
found. Defend right every hand. De-
clare war against tyranny and the usur-
patton of power. Come out from among
mammon and strike a blow for the lib
erty of the toiling millions Let this be-
ginning to destroy the freedom of the
press be met by brave men in such a. way
and so promptly that the effort to crush
out freedom in American will bring dis
aster and defeat to the set of political
shysters who are now enthroned in Wash
ington and Kansas
Again we ask you to answer this let
ter before you sleep and kindly remem-
Der us whose hearts are made sad by this
blow and whose business is threatened
without cause or provocation'
It is signed by S. P. Gebhart, Grant
Gaines. Annie l.. Diggs, Lenora McLal-
lin and H. N Gaines, as stockholders in
the Advocate Publishing company