The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-09
By WILL THOMAS

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movement exists for the appeal to
Reason and the Appeal to Rea-
son" exists for Wayland, and Way
land exists for himself. On this lat
ter point, the testimony of the So
cialists of Wayland's own town-Gi-
rard, Kansas-ought to be of some
value, and they, without single ex-
ception, certify to the correctness of
the above statement.
Away from Girard, where Wayland
is known only through his paper,
they are easily fooled, but the few
Socialists in Girard are Next to his
game, and they give him credit for
being charter member of the "An-
nanias Club
There is not a generous, noble
sentiment in this mans makeup. He
is as hard as chilled steel and as in
capable of warm human sympathy as
block of Vermont granite. He wor-
ships the twin gods, Pelf and Power,
and his ear attuned only to those
two notes, is deaf to every cry of
human need except when it can be
turned to his pecuniary advantage
and converted into a business asset.
His heroic CD defense of Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, in the IA
nous Steunenberg murder case, is a
splendid example of this trait of his
character. He cared absolutely moth
ing for the accused men or their
families, Or for the labor organiza-
ton of which they were officers. In
fact, he peremptorily declined to per-
NIT his paper, the Appeal to Reason,
to say a single word in their behalf
until his managing editor, Fred. D.
Warren, showed him how to make
money out of it. Then. and not I'M
til then, he issued orders to go ahead.
He has a scent like a bloodhound,
when he is on the trail of dollar,
and he can follow a blind trail like
an Indian on the warpath. His great
ambition-or rather one of his great
ambitions-is to make two dollars
grow where none grew before. The
other is to go to Congress, and from
there to the White House, to occupy
the Presidential chair. This latter
ambition Wayland frankly avows,
while vehemently denying the for
mer, and claiming that he cares
nothing for money, but only wishes
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In almost every number of the
appeal to Reason" that issues from
the press, this man tells four or five
hundred thouand dupes that 'The
Appeal is on the rocks" and that I'M
less a certain number of thousands
of subscriptions are Forthcoming i'm
mediately, the Appeal will be COM
PEELED to suspend publication.
This heart-rending appeal has
never yet failed to result in imme-
diate and strenuous action on the
part of ''The Appeal Army" as Way
land calls his subscribers. They all
get busy; the number of subscrip-
tions demanded come rolling in on
every mail, absolutely without ex-
pense to Wayland, and with the pro-
ceeds Way1and builds another ten
story office building in Amarillo,
Texas, town in which he now owns
all the most valuable business prop
erty.
1907 was pretty bad year for
most people. Most of us have dis
tinct and not wholly pleasant recol-
lections of the panic of that year. The
appeal" was ION the rocks" the en-
tire year, which means that the
army" was engaged in continuous
campaign. The Appeals circulation
for that year was not more than half
what it was for 1909 but in spite of