Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15
SUPPRESSED"
by order of the United States Post
Office for Advertising Ideas.
BANIsHED TO CANADA.

The large handsome cards also contained
the name of the magazine, date and place of
publication Toronto and they createdmuch
interest and talk among the tens of thou
sands paironizug the cars.
Forall this we are indebted to Mr. Madden
ourThird Assistant Postma-terG General who
has unwarantably and uulawfully assumed
o. censorship of the periodical publication
of the United States. more eNasperatiug
and sweeping than that exercised by his
Russian prototype.
Mr.. Wiltshire addresses the following
open letter TO the President"
Dear lB. PJcTi3fUE
do not wish TO embarrass the admins.
trauou. but J really feel it is imperative
both IN Justice 10 myself and for the good
of the nation that ! insist upon your trans
ferring Mr.. Madden from the post-ofice 20
some other department where his duties
will be either largely ornamental or entirely
perfunctory I don't ask for his dismissal
from the service, for know that when
man Is taken from the ranks Of labor and
placed in a fat political position, as Mr.
Madden was, there has always been fat
must in honor be fully liquidated do not
ask you 20 repudiate by the dismissal Of
Mr. Madden. Simply transfer him to some
other ob where the pay is the same. You
ask me where to put him2 Well, the only
thing he ever made good record atwas firing
a locomotive. It is said that this is going to
be a hard winter. The White House is a
drafty old barn, a dangerous place for your
children if not kept properly warmed and
al an even temperature. What's the matter
with appointing Mr.. Madden your janitor
with especial charge of the White House
furnace If he fred a locomotive he GER
tainly can FIRE a furnace. By making this
transfer you not only provide for the COM
fort of your family, but you at the same
time remove a Third Assistant Postmaster.
General who will always be making fool
of your whole administration, As the New
York Er0giUg Post says regarding your
control over appointees:
Mr. Roosevelt enjoys tremendous ad.
vantages IN dealing with this problem. I'm
the first place, he is entirely free from those
restrictions which constrained Mr. McKin.
ley t0 sign the commissions of odious char
aCters TO whom his manager Hanna, had
promised office"
Why endanger your political future by
tying your fortunes TO such a MANI lust
think What greater blunder could Mr.
Madden have committed your admini-tra-
,iou 20 than that of 7uppressing the freedom
ofthe press2
of course I know perfectly well that you
kuowuo,hing about il and that if the matter
had ever been referred to you that such an
g. ..s I'D lt i
but this only goes so much the further TO
show that you must have subordinates up.
on whose judgment you can rely 20 prevent
the recurrence Of such notifying episodes.
II will be urged to excuse Mr.. Madden that
he did it simply in order to please you.
Such am excuse Is worse than none at ALL
In the FIRST place it will intimate that you
yourself favor the suppression of the free
press. which you do not. In the next place
it would mean that the post Office is run not
for the public service but as if Il were a
Kind of mechanical toy, a toy locomotive,
TO amuse the occupant Of the Presidential
chair
Then. too, the absurdly bald subterfuge
Mr.. Madden uses In saying that he is not
suppressiug my journal owing TO its views,
but because it 'advertises" those views, is
such a dangerous precedent On this plea
he would stopa man making speech on the
ground that the meeting had been 'ad-
vertsed"
Mr. Madden has another plea for his ac.
ton used my journal primarily 70 ad.
vertse my speeches.
I'm the Erst place this is not true and in
the second place even If il were true II
would be a new and dubious reason for sup.
pressing paper On this ground IL would
be easy 20 suppress Mr. Bryan's paper
Mr Bryan really comes more under the ban
than Ido for he gets paid for his speeches
while mine are free. I showed Mr.. Madden
that ! had been publishing my journal
since December, 1900, and that for the frs
six months I had made no mention of any
speech.making I made no speeches
explained 90 him that was boo the frs
place essentially business man and hat
no time for any great amount of speech
making That was the owner of scvera
orange and walnut ranches 100 Califomi.
and also had other businesses and being 10
addition a director IN a National Bank al
we'll as of several other corporations Tha
. editing nay paper and handling my private
/ business affairs was quite sufficient 10 keel
/ me busy without my becoming proles
I si0ual lecturer also pointed out chat n,
was passing Judgment upon a journal whicl
had been regularly published for thirty
. seven ISSUES by an examination of "a siugl
issue That because this one had BOO it a us
. of my lectures he had formed the er0ueou
impression that an the other issues ha'
contained such a schedule, whereas as
matter o. fact ] could not remember of an.
such schedule ever having been so pub
lsHed before.
also pointed out chat The schedule wa
. uuo manner an advertisement a. my lec