Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-16

way eAlGNn Win luQAuH anu ~ il'a'
Baltimore" was conducting his negona'
tions, Madden was busy making a hu'la'
baloo among the publishers Collecuohs
were easy for Baltimore On July u lle
Department issued orders which praeueally
would have excluded from the mails an
periodicals which offered and gave prem
iums to their subscribers, but the puOnsh'
ers were given until October 70 square
themselves, and incidentally TO dine wth
Baltimore. Mr. Madden also threatened
that he would hold all postmasters respon'
sible on their official bond for any losses
which might be suffered by the Govern
ment by evasion Of his order through theF
negligence.
This dire threat frightened some post
masters aud they began TO take summary
actions on all periodicals they suspected Oh
being under Mr. Madden's ban. COtlections
became still easier for baltimore Inc
net result of this excitement IS this' Inc
premium-giving publications as general
thing have broken bread with Baltimore
and are saved. The FIRST OF October has long
since passed, yet this class OF publications.
against whom the most terrible threats
were made, have not been disturbed. In
fact the Y0Ntks' Companion. the best
known of all the premium giving papers,
now comes out with big double issue with
nearly thirty pages given up entirely 10
advertising premiums for subscribers.
One publisher who had long been In the
habit of offering premiums TO subscribers,
was threatened by the Madden order ana
finally the Department ruled that II could
no longer be admitted to secoud-elass mail
privileges. Ruin stared him in the face,
but an angel friend who was "ou the I'M
side' advised him to see Baltimore" He
took the hint. What is your circulation
How large are your pro6tse were, as usual
the first questions asked The fee was ar
ranged Madden not only promptly re-
versed his former ruling, but intimased that
the publisher could keep on offering prem
iums to his hearts content. Thatpublisher
devoted seven whole pages Of his Deceu-
Der issue to advertising premiums to sub
scrihers
So far as is known, not a single one of the
hundreds of threatened premium-giviug
papers have been actually interfered with
by Mr. Madden, although they were the
chief ones at whom the threats were first
levelled However, after so much noise
had been made, il was felt that something
must be done in the way of making a show
ing And so it came to pass that Madden
transferred his war from the premium
papers latter they had been "milked") to
labor and Socialist papers, which could not
be 'Baltimoged' because they were either
too poor or too spunky to pay blackmail.
And so we have a ruling that the Abpedi
TO Reason (Socialist) cannot accept sub
scriptions which have been donated by
some friend, and within week another
ruling that Success, of New York can ac-
cept such subscriptions
Indians, while fishing in winter, are wont
to catch suckers by the snagging process.
One fisher sits by hole in the ice while
others pound the ice up and down stream.
The fish are snagged from the hole by the
man sitting there with hook spear. The
suckers only know the man at the hole in
the transaction though they may have
grave suspicious Of the fellows who made
the racket on the ice. Just so in this fish,
hunt for publishers. The victims only
know Baltimore Indian" who sits at the
hole in the ice and snags their checks, yet
they cannot but have grave misgivings
about the maker Of the maddening hula
baloo which scared them into seeking
refuge from danger"
story of my Washington correspondent as
to the curious ins aud outs Of the United
States Post-office feel that possibly a little
incident that happened to myself will be of
interest to the public When Mr.. Madden
first made his ruling against me 1 was in a
very uncertain frame Of mind as to what
course I should take to meet the emer-
gency. Now as l always have said, there
"a r. H. -.
My usual plan of life is to get there Eli"
never mind how you do it so long as you
really do" That is the reason why go
in for advertising ideas" Il may be op-
posed to all the conventional made in
Germany" notions as to methods of con-
ducting propaganda but as long as It con
ducts" just so long will Advertise, +" even
though l have to live in Canada to do Il
However. as said, my first thought was not
how to down Madden" but how to up
Wiltshire" Hence when I was tipped"
that Mr.. Harrison J. Barrett, a young
lawyer of Baltimore, was great on pOst-ofice
business did not hesitate a moment IN en-
quiring as to how much il would cost to get
his services. ! knew that Mr. Barrett was
a nephew Of the Assistant Attorney General
Of the Post-ofice. James ~ Tyner, and that
Nc ua4 UGH al uD AhlN AhAE HIS aaalaLdnA IN
that Office. He resigned about year ago.
In fact his resignation proved to have oc-
cured al a most fortunate time, for Mr..
Madden soon after be IAN his crusade and
this gave Mr. Barrett chance 10 gain dis
tinction and cash that seldom befalls so
young a man, especially in so short time
In the one short year since Mr.. Barrett took
up the practice Of law on his own account
doubt If any man in America has had a sue
cess as great as has fallen to him. Andit is
the reward Of merit too, for while no doubt
his uncle, Mr.. Tyner, helped him, still if
Mr.. Barrett had not the making Of a success
within him no uncle would have made IL
for him. Of course the fact that he had
served such long apprenticeship in the
postohice also tended in no small degree
TO make him no new hand at the ropes when
he started in for himself
In replyto my enquiry. Mr.. Barrett an
swered as follows
BALTIMORE, ND. NoL g. Io0I
Mr.. II. GAYLORD WILTSHIRE,
22S FoHrth ADe, NezO York. W. T.
MY DEAR SIR have received your
letter Of the 9TH inst, and copies Of ChaE-
e n. r. - L. h.