New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-13


nzed, but does that fact give to any Of them right Of
property in Tie cloth that you place IN thelr bands 10 BE-
converted into coats Because your baker makes better
and profit the f0sr you send him to be convered into
bread Were ne TO pretend TO any sach right you would,
think say TO him precisely wha, the people who
owners of the great treasury from which the materials Of
hooks arc drawn say 20 the authors This -four sir 10
thine deny that your being able to make better breat
oIl alone Is yours and Cor that am willing "a
give you all fair snd liberal compensation bat whes
"hsi shall be done ,he bread eil Be nine The people
have already granted 10 The authors forty two year. mo-
nouoy Of the right Of exhibiting the body OF which books
are composed, a compensation for putting u IN new
clothing. and that monopoly extends over twenty a NIL
ions Of people bu. the auth0r not satisfied Ihey de-
sire row 20 have extended over tho sixty millions f
England and France and therefore II is that has become
necessary to qn whether eS nave We, S 30
for their labor II they have there no more reason Tor
granting them IN increase than there would be for your
paying your tailor ten dos for making cost wnen eur.
reminded by people of precisely equal ability who would
gladly do Il for two The people have right to expect
authors work without liberal reward but the legislator
in granting that reward is bound 10 look carefully 10 tbs
maintenance q the rights OF the people, and he grants
The authors more than Is fairly and Justly due to them b
doing As much Injustice to h ep"ye a. "o"a Ss
Won pay three dollars day 10 men that could earn but one
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when MS so1 .s5s asa ..s.sAs: as
.Rsr imcan replies Nose that these nO~s eoHas,
property and have coed nab, TO- them /. you have.
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You have here supposed great treasury at which al
can help themselves TO what they want, without foe or r
ward any But one such exists or can exist and
that is the great treasury of nature From It the saceid
citizen Of whom you speak, draws at Infinite cost OF Ia
Dor and sk the facts and ideas which constitute science
The popnlar author" Nose" as you have called him
seizs on these facts and ideas insisting that they
mon property aud society susains him IN his claim Not
satsfedwh ~siHg them he appeal TO society to grant
him an exclusive right exhibit them in the garb in which
he has chosen deck them and because the people refuse
TO mako tho grant universal and perpetual ho thinks he ia
treated with great injustice Here you see the chsrac
tiers arc changed TO present picture that s In accarance
with the fact The popular author insists tina, oil the How
that produced are common property and he plays
the part have here assigned to the bully while the
man Of scence-the producer of the bouquet-plays The
part Of your citizen, and LETT to starye Well might
he exclsm If my work is worthless, why seek 10 avail
yourself of it Invaluable why not pay mo Tor 10 lie
never is paid as you Mr. Editor well know but the man
who ava himself Of his labo to present them in pop
ulor FORM is largely paid and Is yet not satisfied IN the
case in a very strong light and all would now desire
that you ha study carefully the picture You yourself have
drawn That done, You viii be sure TO meet me, as
ponent. In the next paragraph you say
MIR Carey being himself eminent and lsborioqs no, WELL
=, toCs and The only P.s,cs qs.Sn h. r.~sn oPSs S
cart or barrel Of wood growing the Public Do
TO hi, ssa .ssm good so 4 he write book though N. e.
bis in he same manner and to the same extent the oar
barrel he might have made nStesd would have been 10 er The
and make mau' claim to the fruits o. bis own essron. boO
$ SSaass BY human legislation and subject to be
To the first portion of this paragraph demur being
utterly unfair and calculated 10 produce upon the mnds
of your readers impression that you would never,
think have desired to produce but for the necessities Of
your You say that cannot well deny the author
some property in his book" Have sought TO lessen his
present rights Is there line that have written that
looks as II desired TO diminish the control he now has
the fruits OF his labor II So beg you TO prodscs
it, Have not said, distinctly, that the literary man Is
entitled TO the protection of tho law. and have not
urged that that which is granted IN most Of them
should be extended to the class of dramatic writers nov
UNPROTECTED against representation without their CONSENT
of the objects Of what have written TO nducs
authors to be satisfied with what they have, and not TO
risk losing part of that in the effort to obtain more you
find single passage in the pamphlet that warronn
YOU in placing before the world being opposed 10
the true interests OF authors let 1t be produced beween
them and the of books there s as consider
perfect harmony of interests and have boon anxious 70
prevent them from producing discord by drawing tightly
the cord that unites the two, as to break 10.
As regards your 10 the questionWhat shall be
the measure Of the right of property Il have TO say that
appears to me to be entirely opposed to the daily teach
the subject you may perhaps have yourself 10 thank for
H. Within amonth have, az il appears 10 me, read re-
peated calls upon your city authorities 10 look 10 the i'm
proper of the public domain" by individuals On
day you have told Of danger to life from the driving
Of cattle through the streets anu on another Of tho huge
piles of bricks by which other streets have been
bered As yet do not recollect have seen complaint
against any for having made "a cart tableor four
barrel Of the wood growing on that part VI ~
public domain that used by your ci.lsehs as park
but any should venture upon such Of action
The 1rttsEe would have little doubt be the first Of al
City papers to invoke the action OF the law In defense
Of the public rights Again, you have spoken Ia approval
OF the proceedings OF the General Government in pross
cutting men who have taken timber from the public hA
for the purpose Of making car tables and -four
but If ssch carts and tables clearly thes 10 be used
preserved and old TO them shall seem good il not
an act OF oppression to interfere with these timber hevesi
public lends are common property, and IL how can you
object TO having them taken by hundreds of thousands
even millions OF acres by any parties having the force and
viii to take them According to tho doctrine now put
forth by you every man must have the right take such
portion OF the public domain best peases him. wheth
or he pays for il not In all this you in error rely
upoDt The people have rights in your streets in your
parks in your rivers in tho public lands and in the timber
growing on hecnd In the vast treasure Of materials fer
books that has been accumulated by labor
generations during many thousands Of years and 10 then
n6eongs TO determine the conditions upon ctich then pox
be used by the gentlemen rho desire place them in rops
lar form Jtore tie vord When they propose 10 permit
TO cultivate the public lands they fix price upon
them and they have the right to fix price upon that
portion Of the public domain that constitutes the
nal Of books If the price of land be too high Il will not
SELL and the compensation TO authors be too low they
will not work The literary should be made 10 feel
Tor his labor and talent but the Legislator who grants
him more does injustice to the people Be represents.
Now IL wholly true that popular dsssss sb~s
sssae IDEAS mainly from the ress thinker, whose wss ssset