I'm afraid it's coming.

We are going to be throttled." Ernest had his hand on the pulse of events even more closely than the rest of the socialists, and within two days the first blow was struck.
The Appeal to Reason was a weekly, and its regular circulation amongst the proletariat was seven hundred and fifty thousand.

Also, it very frequently got out special editions of from two to five millions.

These great editions were paid for and distributed by the small army of voluntary workers who had marshalled around the Appeal.

The first blow was aimed at these special editions, and it was a crushing one.