‘Dr. N. Krishna Visits the Appeal’ from Appeal to Reason (Girard, Kansas). No. 594. April 20, 1907.

Pundit Dr. N. Krishna of Bombay, India has been a visitor to the Appeal, and while here gave three very interesting addresses. Dr. Krishna is a scholarly gentleman and has been received with a marked distinction in many universities and schools of learning in this and other countries he has visited. We were especially gratified to find in Dr. Krishna a Socialist Comrade as well as a doctor of philosophy, and very much enjoyed stories of his travels and experiences, and his views upon the outlook of the international movement. Comrades who meet Dr. Krishna will find him not only an Oriental scholar of deep learning, but a most thoroughly genial fellow worker for the cause.

The Appeal to Reason was among the most important and widely read left papers in the United States. With a weekly run of over 550,000 copies by 1910, it remains the largest socialist paper in US history. Founded by utopian socialist and Ruskin Colony leader Julius Wayland it was published privately in Girard, Kansas from 1895 until 1922. The paper came from the Midwestern populist tradition to become the leading national voice in support of the Socialist Party of America in 1901. A ‘popular’ paper, the Appeal was Eugene Debs main literary outlet and saw writings by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Mary “Mother” Jones, Helen Keller and many others.

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