The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1906-12-22
The WRITINGS OF MRS. II. W. POST.
THEIR SIGNIFICANCE.

Editor Gazette-News-The Halifax
Journal of last Wednesday presented an
article from me giving the inside facts of
my connection with the Post Case.
am sure your courtesy will equal that of
Editor J. M. Jolley by giving me the OPP
portunity to place before your readers
some information concerning Mrs.
Posts literary work
"a prophet is not without honor save
IN his own country and among his own
kindred am not certain that ! am
presenting this quotation correctly but
am sure that it fits the treatment &c
corded more or less to Mrs. Post, during
the past six years, correctly.
Mrs, H. W. Post, under the nome-de-
plume of Helen Wilmans Cher maiden
name), has been a prolific writer and
her publications have been read by
hundreds of thousands of people scat
tered throughout the world and wher-
ever the English language is spoken,
and a number of propositions by
foreign publishers were under con-
sideration to have her books translated
into other languages, when the U. S.
Postal Department arrested her work.
Starting out as magazine writer for
the Overland Monthly, published in San
Francisco, and kindred publications,
more than forty years ago, she became
from 1881 to 1885, associate editor of
two reform journals published weekly,
one in San Francisco and the other in
Chicago. She resigned from the Chicago
Express to lounge into the journalistic
sea on her account and published THE
Woman's World " This she sold later
on, and. coming South, she started the
publication of Freedom, which carried
her message out into the world for more
than eleven years, when in 1903 the
|. 5. Postal Department made it i'm
possible for her to continue its pubhca-
ton by issuing fraud order against it,
Freedom, to my certain knowledge,
had bona fide and wide circulation. 1t
was subscribed and paid for regularly
not only by many thousands through
out the United States and Canada, but
also by many thousands scattered over
continental Europe, Africa, Australia
and her colonies, India, the Fijian, Ha-
waiian and other islands Hundreds of
extra copies had always to be reserved
to supply missing or lost papers, so
eager were the subscribers to read Mrs.
Posts writings that they did not want
to miss Il single number; communications
to that effect were very frequent.
OF her books, "a Conquest of Pow
erty, " reached beyond the sale of one
hundred thousand copies Her Home
Course in Mental Science" had regular
and steady sale. "A Search for Free
dom, y The Blossom of the Century"
ooh World: " The Conquest of Death"
and other Of her publications were
bought up by Il constantly increasing
number of readers and admirers of her
writings, until the United States Postal
Department stopped the sale of them all
by the issuance of blanket fraud order.
which killed her publishing business.
Incidentally it (the fraud ORDER stopped
all further work, contemplated at the
time, for the building of a greater
and more beautiful Seabreeze than we
are living IN today.
The underlying secret. which gained for
Mrs. Post such strong hold among her
! readers and admirers, is her unaffected
style and spontaneous ability to ex-
press the real meaning Of the evolution
airy spirit OF our time. The full dcvcl-
opment of the individual man as a vital,
selt-suStainlng unit, as a divine spark
IN the progress of coSmic embodiment
reaching out for the solution of the Sc
eret of the universe held by the o YER
soul which would enable him to deci-
pher and carry out the meaning of hu-
man existence on this planet
History is but the record f struggl $
which made for freedom Of action on
the part of the individual against the
cyrstalized forces of the state on the one
hand, and the effort of the state to sup
press and merge the individual as a
functional unit of the government.
which IN its last analysis, means the
domlnantly governing class. That
struggle is as vital today as it was at the
dawn Of history; it has only, in meas
ure, changed its form of combat The
repreSSlVe forces are as active as ever to
hold the advancement of man. the in
dlvidual, in check and eXalt instead the
organized COLLECTIVELY, the State.
The organized. the established the
routine; the frigid in politics, religion,
law, medicine, custom, fashion. conduct.
belief and department have been and
are today the forces which check iudi-
vldual expansion beyond certain de-
fined limit, and it requires courage Of no