By an arbitrary ruling of the Post Office, these editions were decided to be not the regular circulation of the paper, and for that reason were denied admission to the mails.
A week later the Post Office Department ruled that the paper was seditious, and barred it entirely from the mails.

This was a fearful blow to the socialist propaganda.

The Appeal was desperate.

It devised a plan of reaching its subscribers through the express companies, but they declined to handle it.

This was the end of the Appeal.