New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-22

the above questions practically is All depends NOT
IN what each does but rhers he Tires Ii both 1--we
in Ney-York London Paris let them be paid alike
but IL one is citizen of the United States and the
" other of Switzerland or Tuscany then the former
should he paid ten times lore than the itter lac
"auoun of compensation should in any case depend.
/" not on the extent 10 which the work is used AMI
proted BY but on the ares and literary taste of the
81 State whereof the writer happened to be citizen
V. That the establishment of Mr. Careys doctrine as
lau would tend directly and formilably TO promote
that Capitalization whereof he is most determined
antagonist it would not even the wlully blind
could fail to see For if each author is 10 be paid ac-
cordng his location, then great genius can ahord
10 be or remain citizen Of small or ignorant country,
but each must hasten to become u citizen Of Great
Britain, France or the United States. Sir Walter
Scott might have lived frugally well as aboed indus
triousy yet died pauper, while insrEetng and de-
lighting the whole civilized world had he happened TO
be born Nespolitan Portuguese or Dane instead Of
Britou, and lad had Mr. II. c. Carey for ruler over
him
Space fails yet we must say few words on another
point On p. %, we find Mr- Carey paradng the large
sum paid to Moore for his Lala Rookh as so evidence
of the lberality OF the rewards of popular authorship
in our age on p &c, we find this same Moore paraded
on long list of popular authors compelled to su6sst
On public or private charty-the result as Mr.. C. as
sures U.s. Of British Capitalization protest against
tie citation of the authors receiving bounti-
full or meager reward for their labors according 20 the
necessity of the argumentOr rather OF the advocate
Mr. Carey disclaims (p. y the argument that the
recognition of International Copyright would raise the
price of books among and deprive our people OF
their accustomed supplies of cheap observation-disclosures
ing it very weak sort of defense" For, says he,
if nothing better than this can be said, we may as
well at once plead guilty to the charge OF piracy,
.. and commence new and more honest course Of ac-
ton" But he seems to have forgotten all this be-
fore he closes or else 70 be driven to the conclusion
that :" very weak sort OF defense is better than
ncne for We find him parading Up. 81 list copied
from the chief organ and champion of International
Piracy Of books selling in England under copyright az
high prices and sell here at much lOwer-nohing be-
ing said of the comparative size of type, quality OF
paper extent of Illustration beauty of execution &c
of the rival editions. The list, moreover, Is by no
means fair One-was got up expressly to make out
case-and gives no fair idea of the relative cost OF books
to consumers in the two countries Ii would be easy
to make out at least as long list Of books selling
cheaper in Great Britain than here And yet Mr..
Carey plays the changes upon this very weak sort of
defense through number of pages.
Now Mr. Carey had already set forth concluslvely
the true reason why most books especially new ones,
are dearer in England than here-nemey the general
ability and disposition TO read in this country and their
comparative paucity in Great Britain. He had himself
stated the fact that The Daily Tribune is supplied to
subscribers for two cents, while paper of like size
and quality in Great Britain costs five times as much
neither of them being copyrighted. We must con-
slider this harping on monopoly prices"-said mo-
"nopoy" being exactly such Dir. Carey enjoys in the
fruits of his own intellectual labors unworthy of
his ability and standing That British books will be
somewhat dearer here under international Copyright,
we expect and desire for deem 1t essential to
heahful National independence of thought and senti'
men that our people should read herown authors more
and those of Great Britain relatively less bsttha they
will be put for a reading public of many millions as
high as for practically composed of few thou
sands OF wealthy ard luxurious persons is not reason
able nor credible. And if fewer British books are
bought by our people, the demand for the writings OF
Americans will naturally and steadily Increases and
this viii lead to lower and lower prices, according to
law which no one can more forcibly elucidate than
Mr. c. Whenever the average sale of new books shall
have risen from Ore thousand to Ten Thousand CO
pies the average price of such books will have mate
rally declined copyright or no cOpyrght-and if one
of authors publishers too selfish and stupid
to defer the law of supply and demand, others more
ragaciOus will speedily push them from their stools
Dickens can ask ten dollars each for his books if he
sees ft but very few will buy them at such an
exorbant price and he will very be constrained
by sefinterest TO sell them at the current rates OF
similar works looking for his profits to extensive sales
rather than exorbitan prices. These are views which
we feel that had right TO expect the aid OF Mr.
Carey in disseminating and regret hata any impulse
should have thrown him on the wrong side of this i'm
portant question-a question in our view, involving
directly our essential National Independence and our
National Integrity. Va read but sparngy OF British
Popular Literature and likely to read less rather
than more but whenever do read British authors
work. we are willing to read it on his own terms; five
don't like them, we viii let his work alone. We can
not believe that Mr. Carey would personally claim for
himself OF prescribe to his children rule Of conduct
differing essentially from this.
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