With a pluck which nothing could daunt, Wayland opened out in Girard, Kansas, and modestly commenced another paper. This time he called it the “_Appeal to Reason_,” but in spirit and purpose it was “_The Coming Nation_” risen from its grave. Patiently, persistently, fearlessly, Wayland hammered away at Girard until he built up a monster circulation, and again was the owner of an extremely valuable property—the product of _him_, the said Wayland. No other man could have made _that_ paper. No other man could any more be Wayland, and do what Wayland does, than any other man could be Edison, and do what Edison does. By every sane and just rule, the _Appeal to Reason_ was Wayland’s property. He had gone into a desert, with a handful of type and a bottle of ink, and by the force of _his_ genius had brought forth a finished product—a successful newspaper. What happened to him then is only a matter of rumor. Conjectures can also be made from some indignant, sorrowful sentences which he published over his own signature. But it seems clear that his Ruskin experience was repeated. His angel-brothers made him take his own medicine in heroic doses. The men who had not created the paper, claimed an equal share in it—or something of that sort; and there were the usual points made against Wayland which the small would-be leaders make against _the leader_. Rumor had it that Wayland went through a Gethsemane of peculiar bitterness, but just how it all was, the outside world was not given to know. The great soldier in the cause of humanity covered the wounds his own men had made, and was too proud to complain. * * * * * But Wayland is now making a mistake. He is offering land prizes for the largest number of subscribers. He proposes that, as a premium, in a certain competition on subscriptions, he will convey, by deed, a farm in Florida to the fortunate Socialist who gets the greatest number of subscribers to the _Appeal to Reason_! I can hardly believe what I see in Wayland’s own paper. What! Is it possible that Wayland has wickedly gone and bought a quantity of land? Is it possible that he has “robbed” some honest citizen of his real estate? And can it be true that other Socialists not only want to share in this “robbery,” but want it so bad they will compete for it? Dear me! I didn’t know that Socialism was like that. If it is, I believe I’ll take some stock in it myself.