Some significance might be attached to the relative circulation of the Socialist daily press, which is largely foreign-speaking. There appear to be but two daily Socialist newspapers published in English--the Milwaukee _Leader_, claiming a circulation of 37,000, and the New York _Call_, credited with about 15,000. The potential circulation of these papers, and even more those in foreign languages, no doubt is much larger than this, the difficulties of distribution due in part to lack of capital, but still more to mailing restrictions inflicted during the war, preventing their free circulation. There are, or until a recent date were, at least thirteen Socialist papers published in foreign languages--one Bohemian, four Finnish, three German, one Hungarian, one Yiddish, one Lithuanian, one Polish, and one Russian. According to the _American Labor Year Book_ of 1916, nine of these foreign-language dailies approximated a total circulation of 302,000. Against these dailies, however, must be placed many Socialist and Socialistic periodicals, weekly and monthly, published in English. One source of information on this subject asserted that “those who have definitely accepted the Socialist philosophy of life read the Socialist daily newspapers.” This is hardly supported by the facts. For obvious reasons, the Socialist dailies are not very satisfactory sources of news information, and many convinced Socialists do not read them--perhaps cannot get them--but rely for their Socialist reading upon periodicals appearing at longer intervals. This would appear from the circulation of such papers in English as the _Appeal to Reason_, published at Girard, Kansas, which claims a circulation of 529,132, and the _National Rip-Saw_, published at St. Louis, which claims 200,000. To what extent these papers represent deeply convinced Socialists, and those holding more or less mildly Socialistic views, it is impossible to say. DUES-PAYING SOCIALIST MEMBERS According to the _Appeal Almanac_ for 1916, the dues-paying members of the Socialist party from 1903 to 1915 totaled: TABLE XLVIII NUMBER OF SOCIALISTS PAYING DUES EACH YEAR, FROM 1903 TO 1915