The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-10


is holy in their religion IL simply infamous.
Yet these men have the andasity to Gall
Christiansl Il = notorious that
in England years ago they sarned che Just
of "pirates." Az Employed,
they never gave full wages. They arc the;
originators of what il known among print
ers as "'two-thirders," and their establish
ment, in our day, if pot now, was what is
known among the craft al a rat-office."
But to the article. Says the above.pamed
paper: 80
The World of last Tuesday said s." One's
patriotic pride is not f1attered by com
parison between the English illustrated
papers and those of this country. The few
meritorious woodcuts which appear in the
latter are simply transferred directly from
the Graphic or the illustrated NcUs. while
their attempts at original American draw
ings are usually beneath notice, both in
be able to produce as good draughtsmen on
wood as can be found in England, for GER
tainly our landscape painters are not be-
hind those of any country. So long, how
ever, as American publishers can steal their
pictures from foreign Journals they will not
pay native artists prices sufficiently cemu-
nerative to induce them to devote
themselves to drawing on wood. The REM.
edy lies with the public, which may secure
recognition for American artists if it but
resolutely demands it.n
"And so say we all of u.s." But the
American press must first instruct the pub
lie that three fifths of the engravings in
Ha,per's Weekly are stolen from the GrapAic,
the Portfolio, the Avt Journal and 1Hsss-
trated NeWs-all published in London 3
while every one in the Bazaar is taken from
some of the fashion magazines of London,
Paris OF Berlin. If they were simply stolen
it would not be so much matter. It is no
new Harperish thing to reprint English
books, or REISSUE, at "great enterprise
London pictures. Harper Brothers ILL
gotten wealth has principally come by
stealing the ideas and brains of English
authors. But the double wrong in the in
stance alluded to by the World is this
because in copying the English pictures
they are sloveniy and cheaply done by the
Harper skinflints. To morals, because the
Harpers sometimes expressly, and always
inferentially, lead the public to believe
that the 80 stolen engravings are original.
Last weeks Euery Saturday contains a
copied engraving, and Hasper's Weekly has
the same thing. The former is best done !;
but while Messrs. Field, Osgood & Co. say
1--WE reproduce" the Harpers lead the reader
to believe the engraving is their own. Gov.
Hoffman, when RECORDER, sent many a man
to State Prison for obtaining money under
1ass ana nd dsS1isns Is Tn uss
which the honest and Misunderstanding Harper
Brothers use in picking dimes from conf
ding country readers. Is il not, ten times
worse for semi-educated and Christian
processing men like tue Harper Brothers to
thus deliberately falsify, week after week,
TO the great public, and in effect say, ssBuy
these Journals for ten cents each--with orr
ginal pictures and great enterprise than
it is for men whose ethics have been per-
verified to sell bogus tea to the poor for ten
cents the quarter pound The difference
between the Harper thieves and the Ses-
sions' ones is that the first live spontane-
ously in brown stone palaces on or near
Fifth avenue, and the latter ones conpul-
sorily reside in white marble mansion
near Sing Sing. We happened last Sunday
to meet on one block two of the Harpers
coming from the Methodist Meeting house,
and on another block an ex-captain of the
army who had served term in the State
Prison for obtaining money from poor SOL
diers by false tokens. UncOnsciously to
each, the Harper false tokener and the ex-
State Prison pretender passed without re-
cognition. But what ethical difference was
there between themf Every week the
Ha,per's Weekly villifies Gov. Hoffman (who
| once refused at a party to shake hands
with one of the Harpers, and hence the
malice) as the associate of political thieves;
but all the time the Harper Brothers are
just AS worthy of the attention of Hoffman's
successor as Recorder, as ever was the State
Prison bird just referred to. We are glad
| the World has spoken out. Let the press
generally ventiiate the great wrong which
the Harper Brothers are weekly commit
ting against art and morals, as we'll as to
the injury of American nationality and by
the mean deception to readers. Hdrper't
i Weekly dare not copy o home editorial
without acknowledgement, because its pioul
detrauders would be found out and pur4
sued but they copy engraviugs not only
without acknowledgement, but shamelessly
palm them OFF as originals, well knowing
artists. It is no doubt o money-makine
olden times from rival booksellers and
newspapersi But let the public insist thai
however much the Harpers may steal the
genius of English artists, in order to turn
pious penny, they shall not do it without
reading public. Meanwhile Brentano sells
which the Harpers weekly steal. Let the
public patronage honest ,Brentano, and turn
It's back on the dishonest false tokeners Of
Franklin square, who editorially "eyery Sat.
urday," and Enthusiastically every Sunday
thank God they are not as other men are.
observation-disclosures is continue
check to sound rational enjoyment. fgno
rance is the night of winter, long an6
dreary. knowledge is the summers day
Upright and cheerful. All men may ,becomG
! acquainted with the exalting influence o