Appeal to Reason was an influential socialist newspaper that ran from 1895 to 1922. During its heyday it had more than 750,000 weekly subscribers all across America. By 1910 there was more than half a million coppies of Appeal to Reason in circulation, making it the largest socialist newspaper in American History.
History
First produced by Julius A. Wayland in Kansas City August 31, 1895, Appeal to Reason was a four-page socialist weekly. Less than 2 years later Wayland paper to the southeast Kansas coal-mining town of Girard.