The independent., 1903-06-18
SURPRISING THE INDEPENDENT

Independent on the regular day and |
lcok forward to it's coming with pleas
ire" Perhaps some of these days
they will go to the postoffice on the
regular day and there will be no In
dependent. If that should happen they
nay all know that it has been sup
dressed by the agents of plutocracy
who hold power under the republican
party. Several times Madden and 9th
ers have attempted it and the pub
Usher has received new warnings FROM
him.
Every man knows that ne can order
a hundred, a thousand or ten thou
sand extra copies of any edition or
great plutocratic daily and the pub
Usher will send them through the
postoffice at the regular rates, but II
an edition of The Independent is so
interestin~ to il readers that they or
der few thousand extra copies to dis
tribute to their riends and neighbors,
down comes Madden on us with dire
threats of a suppression of the pub
lication of the paper. Two or three
reform weeklies in Nebraska have
been suppressed for a considerable
time by an arbitrary order of some
imperialistic underling at Washington
Those publishers sent out their paper
h. putting 1-cent stamp on each one.
Their editions were small and they
could do that, but the large edition of
The Independent could not be han
died in that way.
An attempt was made to suppress
the Appeal to Reason, but Mr. Way
land is millionaire and had the
rconey to fight them. While Mr.. Will
shire was a millionaire also, he was
driven to Canada and the publication
of his magazine in the United States
was absolutely prohibited. The postal
treaty with Great Britain enabled him
to print his ma1~4ine in Canada and
send it from there into the United
States, the underlings at Washington
not daring to bring on conflict with
Great Britain.
Mr.. Wayland in his conflict ordered
thousands of copies of the great dali.
les and they were sent to him at
round rates in huge bundles without
any objection from Washington at all,
while that was the very charge that
had been brought against Mr.. Way
land himself, and the same that is
made against The Independent.
While living il the country for the
last year the editor of The Independent
has learned that the farmers are food
ed with republican periodical litera
ture for which they never subscribed
and for which they never pay. L-r
Maiden makes no threats against any
publisher of plutocratic paper. The
advertised subscription price of hun
dreds of them is only nominal. Any
man knows that Is cents year for
large seven-column, sixteen-paga
weekly is only nominal. The money to
lay for putting out that kind of liter
ature comes from the corruption funds
Of the republican party, the trusts and
the privileged few. Every Independent
subscriber pays for his paper and the
Price is 81 a year.
Any such an attempt as the pluto
cratic underlings at Washington have
made to destroy the -reedom of the
press if it had been undertaken few
years ago would have produced a
revolution. Even in war times, when
martial law was in force, Lincoln
would not allow the suppression by
military order of papers that were CIV
ing aid and comfort to the enemy and
printing reasonable utterances every
day. But Imperialism has produced
exactly the effect in this country that