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~Addfe" sCH1cA0o TRIBUNE" Chicago. II
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1905.
sOuTHERN LITER
The tax Of $50 per annum imposed by tb,
Legislature ot GeorEia on all renders a
periodicals, books and newspapers In tha,
State, aims specially to exclude Sortbe1
literature from the classic region whose mora
capital Is Andcrsonyille-th self.styled "Em
pirc State of the South" Many of the ua
NJ dical dealers Of that State have dIscou
nnned their orders on Northern pubsishers
on the ground that they cannot afford from
their email sales TO pay 80 large tar.
No anglc fact could a1gue with create,
elo9uence that Georgia is a century behind
Northern civilization. We have very kind.
" feeling toward everybody in Georsia, but
We have never been in the habit OF iyjnp IN
order to manifest our affection, aud therefore
We do not refrain from saying that Georcia in
passing such law .only satisfies mankind
that voting majority OF her present Leef.-
lature are fools. In all the Sontb
there Is not. and never has been. a
hsst class or even q second class
dailY Oh weekly newspaper; there has been
but ono monthly Of any repute, DeDop,s
Reudeto, and bvoks by Southern authors arr
scarcer than shad In February, and about a.
. poor. Jcferson's Notes on Virginia ~
t'wiH's Life Of Patrick Henry tPollard's
History Of the War" and u few light novels
by Kennedy, Sims, 1ngraham and the author
OF ''Beulah" comprise the total of Southern
authorship, unless they should be inclined to
slain 'tnelper'a Impending Crisis, >, written
By an e11ed North Carolfoian. Southern
newspapers rs \ class, are without money
enterprise, brains or character It vould
seem rs thongh, under: these circumstances
The clouds that hide the Hight OF literature
from the Southern masses were dense ENOUGH
without the addition Of legal barriers shut
ting out light and taxlng knowledge.
When slavery existed this exclusion Of
Northern Literature was absurd enough, but
It then had a prctence Of reason. Now II has
none.
OF course. the attempt to shut out North
err publications would not be complete with
out an effort to supply their place with books
that Will magnify the rehel cause, keep alive
the secession argument, foster the pro.s1svery
spirit, and nurture the assumption Tint this
Is white mans Government. We wou1d
have perfect freedom 10 every author 10 wr1te
and print whntcver he can sell, which Il mt
indecent or blasphcmous, but when a State
lcyics tax Of $50 per annum on those who
sell Northern publications, It becomes i'm.
portant TO Inquire with what they would SUD-
ply their place
Among other publications In nrcss and f,,
sale, we find the most promIpcntlv odva-+t.as
arc the following:
Astopewsll Jack.ou; = ,Milita., B,o.rspbv. u.,,
AfotAt and Nap"
y,rcos, Lost s,e S4ase; s ~ EdWad A. Pollard, Of
Ing ihe Wa1.'' ''4 @'f"s'''a's our
The G4<seeat Monthly. literary amir. ar esrhtv.
.oaf paget, published a New Orleans, and devoted
~1he RAlns and Homanccs Of Moran and hys
Men. hy Mn. sally Rochester Ford, wit6 Stecj Por-
trait Of General Moran"
"southen tscne9sts ths,r Live. md t.ann.,rnr
By laptatn ". Farker SNOW. vfth seyen1een Snienss
did Sieel Pos1.aiu." ep'''s~
jackson H. T,r1in,,n a"tMens IEt9s ot stooewau
l1x,s Of Jsct.on' and Fl. "nce...o ososehc s Pos'
s,eei.~ D' A'0 o's 'a'ee'sof hwtn' on
in frre ~ ,a*s.,sa xi,6 .psad!1 Port?: On s!e
Aaro !. Mc1ntosb, ME. Rosa Vg1nrr jo6n.on.
~ ~. 1"na Goia Eateoie' Mtes A9eneta ]. Evans,
;, are; L Si5Efna FErneh. Marion Rarlsnd and con.
11 1 n,oerapIteai pc, skescees md spedmtn
s @ .ftn ~ ]. .oe mo-t celehT*fsd Wf1unss m pnose
sSs xentE.. ~ - o'saneulsneo hieraEy women Of
South.zn p,.,,r o,,,. No..
.d,.os pts,s =! - "af Hy f. a. Pollard,
SH mIs IAIn"1o 7s 1oES EIsnet"eT.
80, - - eAos1,n j. e. G."
eeoAs Ao"'atg, published at Atlanta, Ga,
4.,,, ~. - ,,..., 4'SanS
nun us sane a's,otac efouna. All these are