The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-01-25
FAYS F|GAI WITH MADDEN
PUBLISHER GOES AGAINST POST.
AL AUTHORITIES.
AN AuTocRAT AT THE HEAD

Publisher OF Fry's Wonderland Mag.
azlne Falls to Convince Mr.. Madden
That Niobrara Man is Real Thinu.
Madden an Enemy Of Country Press
Have any of you ever played the
other mans game in a vain hope to
break It?
have just passed through the or
| deal of trying to convince Third AS
sistant Postmaster General Madden
that Fry's Wonderland Magazine ought
to have the full rights under the law
and | have aided the deficit at the
rate Of four cents copy for five
months.
| certainly thought that when ac-
knOwledged under oath that this gov
eminent presented me the gift of a
subsidy and lots of other stuff that is
not the real truth, had knocked a
dent in my conscience sufficient to
pass under the wing of a car or pass
the rapacious jaws of cannibal.
But that was not enough.
A second special type-wrtten aft
an honest man to mink he is part of
this government still to answer with.
out Jar, aided to antagon2e my spirit
of Yankee independence that | was
brought up to assert The last Ques-
ton asks if Fry's Wonderland Maya.
zinc desires the privilege of free coun-
ty delivery.
or course | do.
Then | am deprived of any recogni-
ton because there is doubt as to
whether or not Edwin A. Fry is the
true publisher of the publication and
as to whether or not Nobrara, Ne
braska, is the real known Office of
publication.
| swore that | was editor and pub
Usher and that had a known office
and the postmaster of Niobrara under
his Office of trust said so too.
| Indignantly reminded the third as
sistant postmaster general that if
had perjured myself in my two afTi-
daVits that he was derelict of duty in
not filing charges against me, which |
invited, and as a matter of principle
claimed the full rights under section
452 of Postal Laws and Regulations.
(See correspondence in application No.
107177)
Then came lot of rulings in which
numerous magazines had been denied
admission. The reasons, principally,
were because the pages did not cor
respond with those of the syndicate
service and the matter was of an ad-
vertising nature.
| agreed that these were good rea-
sons but maintained that Fry's Won
derland was not of that character. |
desired to write something worth read
ing-of local history and other themes
of local interest - and desired the
rights that belonged to me.
But Mr.. Madden is an autOcrat and
no friend of the freedom of the press.
He never has been. Why this United
States, whose people pride themselves
in free speech, a free press and a Sc
cret ballot are to be continually tor
mented with such narrow construc-
ton of progress, | cannot understand.
The local press must assert itself.
We have no reason to feel jealous of
the magnitude of the great metropol,
itan yellows They can never fiji our
mission in the rural homes-can never
touch the hearts of the hearthstone as
we can do. But Mr.. Madden, or ra-
Their his successor, could despoil the
big free calculations of those Maine
M obi 10 fI,f -,
ity in their work and no lawful license
to the mails as second-class matter.
The Nebraska Press Association a
few years ago made a vigorous pro-
test against Mr. Loud. He is silenced.
1t entered into the spirit of protest
against the government furnishing
printed envelopes to the public at a
loss, An innocent law, with comma
or two, placed here and there to cause
ambieuity, stole our fight; and we are
l. as an excuse, for being a big
bu... threatened with the loss of
privl that will make the public pay
the cos
We should not only demand of our
representatives in congress to fix any
law that may be passed so strong that
the postofice department may not
make laws at its will but follow the
statutes with Observation-Disclosures to be
sure, with high sense of moral worth
as against the carnal-minded.
don't like to see such good men as
Walt Mason and | die in the ditch. |
We're too wise to be martyrs.
Ed. A. Fry.