Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15

.ur... as The paper containing it was issued
.r.tf bad finished my tour ChaAfHgf is
n.IuabIy au impossible medium anyway to
advertise lecture The only paper that
com advertise % lecture is a local paper pub
#.aed 100 the place where the lecture is 20
ake place. The schednle Mr.. Madden ob-
ea.ad 60 took up less than one column of
. sixteen page paper
This certainly does not look like I was
conducting Jh0HsHCe as am advance pro-
grain of my lecturing tour
The most singular point Of all this is that
after actually convinced Mr. Madden him
self of tine absurdity of his first ruling that
.hglsugs was merely a lecture program
that he then went of on a new tack alto
ge,her to argue on entirely new grounds
that 30 was a paper designed primarily for
advertising purposes" He said it was
m8uifestly designed to sell my ideas ~
That inasmuch as my stock in trade was
admittedly and osteusibly ideas and that
Challenge was admittedly the medium
through which l offered my goods for sale
that the logical conclusion was that Chai-
IsUge was primarily designed for 'adver-
tis.ng purposes
Now, really, Mr.. President what answer
can one make 20 a man advancing such an
absurd argument? OF course the uncon-
scious humor of it is as fine as. anything IN
the English language / appreciate that
-ide of it well enough, but nevertheless
don't feel like paying thousand dollars
month for even the very finest joke In the
language.
That is just what Mr. Maddeu's bit Of
humor means to me if 1 continued publish
ing Ch1NeHge as a weekly. / may say in
Justice 20 the gentleman, that after my talk
he did agree to allow me TO apply for re-
entry for Challenge, as you will see by his
letter on the next page,
However this permission did nothing
more than TO give me another try at editing
a paper without advertising my ideas
To not only promised nothing for the
future. but IL conveyed no information that
I would get my deposit money that had
put up on the back numbers. 1t was such
au indefinite sort of program for me to
try TO follow that I simply chuckeu up the
sponge ON trying 20 publish a weekly and
decided TO make challenge a monthly mag
azne.
Again. Mr. President, I must remind you
that the making of q good iantor was lost
when Mr. Madden was made Third Assistant
Postmaster. General II is not too late to
correct the error.
II. GAYLORD WILTSHIRE.
MI Wiltshire accompanies his sarcastic
letter with the following copy Of a missive
received from Nj Madden, Censor Of Per-
iodical Literature, nee Third Assistant Post
master.General.
POsr-OEFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE
THIRD ASSISTANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CLASSIFICATION DIVISION, WAsHINGroN,
ID. c., October 5, I00L
Mr.. H. GAYLORD WILTSHIRE
Publisher Of The ChaHeHgs PCS Fourth
Street, New York n. "
SIR: Referring to your call at the depart
ment with reference to the classification Of
The Challenge, you are informed that the
postmaster at New York has been author
lied to receive a new application for entry
of the paper 20 the second.class Of mail
matter, with conditional deposit of postage
at the third-class rate.
This authority was given with the under
standing that the features which caused the
recent denial of the secoud-class rates to
the publication will be eliminated there
from. Respectfully yours,
EDWIN C.. MADDEN,
Thiyd assistant Postmaster GeUeyaL
The tone and subject matter of this letter
are as Extensively autocratic as they arelnn.
American The idea of a public servant
assuming such prerogatives as to absolutely
dictate to a publisher what his magazine
shall contain, and even indicating what
shall be eliminated is too much. Is Pres
ident Roosevelt prepared TO bring down
upon his administration through the in
suGerable ignorance and presumption of
this sub-omcial Madden, the condemnation
of the entire periodical press of the United
Statcs2 There is a wide difference between
fake publications, which are rightfully
excluded from the privileges Of second
class postage and legitimate enterprises
such as theiWsyicaH Printer, Hiisiiye'S
Magazine and kindred publications.
Mr. Madden must be either called down
or disposed of, as Mr. Wiltshire ironically
suggests, as the war is only just beginning
against this extraordinary and un American
censorship.