When my war was at its height, when I was
beginning to congratulate myself that the huge magazines of "The Seven"
were empty almost to the point at which they must sue for peace on my own
terms, all in four days forty-three of my sixty-seven newspapers--and they
the most important--notified me that they would no longer carry out their
contracts to publish my daily letter. They gave as their reason, not the
real one, fear of "The Seven," but fear that I would involve them in
ruinous libel suits. I who had _legal_ proof for every statement I
made; I who was always careful to understate! Next, one press association
after another ceased to send out my letter as news, though they had been
doing so regularly for months. The public had grown tired of the
"sensation," they said.
I countered with a telegram to one or more newspapers in every city and
large town in the United States:
"'The Seven' are trying to cut the wires between the truth and the public.
If you wish my daily letter, telegraph me direct and I will send it at my
expense."
The response should have warned "The Seven." But it did not. Under their
orders the telegraph companies refused to transmit the letter. I got an
injunction.
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