New-York tribune., 1875-09-04

wrought ont and embodied ideos, by mere mecnanics
working stealing machine. To pirate patcntcd
article you must employ the same KIND Of construcre
skill The patentee or his paid constructors, employ,
and then you only mimic: but to pirate an authoT
or labor is required All the brains required 70
reproduce mechanically that sequence Of words,
which is an authors object OF property are who nan,
invented the machine by which an author nyeS
or dies az Law protects him. or let's thieves rob him
with stealing instrument worked by mere me-
chanics.
INCONSISTENCY OF THE LAW.
50 then the American legislature protects for'
eiguers monopoly, and steals foreigners property.
The monopoly this great Republic protects is the
creature Of the British Crown to which the great
Republic owes nothing, and the property 1t out
laws is property that arose in the breast, and brain,
and conscience, of cur common ancestors. They,
whose wisdom and Justice founded this property IN
England, were just as much Americans AZ English,
and we all sprung from those brave just and honest
men.
To swindle poor weak, deserving, private men OF
kindred nation out of tins sacred property, which
our common ancestors created and yenerated, and
defended aganst the Crown in Roper agt Streater,"
as the United States defended their rights against
q Parliament usnrping Russian Prerogatives,-a
property which Milton revered, whose Beart was
with the Pilgrim fathers and all just Liberty what
ever and to protect Briton's monopoly, the mers
cr ature OF arbitrary prercgativc this dOnble ini-
quity say is legislation that disgraces the name OK
legislation and national sentiment; 1t 10 a prodigy
OF Injustice, partiaity, aud Inconsistency. Whatl
sp1 nd 1000 hours labor on composition; 70 Dc
sold it must be welded TO vehicles, paper, type,
binding, and il must be advertised pay the paper
makers the printers the binders. ] pay the adver-
tisemcnts the retail trader takes 20 per cent OF my
gross receipts; tho publisher justly shares my
profits The book succeeds cross Ie %aier az INV van sS
vert'sements; | ask trtng share OF ire prohts
from an American publisher, who profits by me e
much as ever my Bridsh publisher dld f0uI
says he, lyon are nobody-in this business. shall
pay for the rehices, but not for the production thss
seyls the rekices. shall pay the pape. makers and
also the printers and bindcrs, Brtons or not. But
shall take your labor gratis, and pretend do 1t be-
cause you are Briton."
ABSURD LEGISLATION.
The American public pays dollar for the book.
Fifty-fve cents of the value is contributed by the
English author. The various laborers who are all
paid, make up the fJrty-fve cents among them
He who alone contributes tfty-fve per cent is tho
one picked ont of half-a-dozen workmen concerned.
to be swnded out of euery ceat, and the legislature
never even suspects that by encouraging this damna-
bic iniquity 1T disgraces Legislature and mankind.
An Engshman writes a play, mixing labor
with invention. The stage-carpenter con-
tributes PETTY mechanical idea suggested
by the scene; he wavy glass at sn
angle under limc-hght, to represent the water
The play crosses the Atlantic; anybody steals IT for
pantcrs deni-semi-invcntion, his bare heshless IN.
telectua idea of placing an old substance, glass al
an angle under another old thing, lime light
"Hal;e la-ne touchez pas a Ia Rene," The
creature of Crown Prcrogative protects IN
New-York and Boston the naked halt
ida of the British carpenter. No American
glass and lime light honestly bongiit, must %
welded to that bare idea; and the idea taken gratis
ony Che property can be !; belong. belong.
and Injustice, the dirty little British monopoly is
secure The British actor must be Bad four time: h
property in New-York or Boston tleater; the
hdders, Brtons or not for fddling to IL the door
keepers for letting in the public to see it, etc etc
Only tie one imperial workman who created ne
production, and inspired the carpenter with ms
aud the fdders iddIing, aud the pablic paying aad
the thief OF manager juggling another mans money
is singled out of about eighty people, ali pad out q
his one skull TO be swindGd Of every cont, on the
pretcnse that he is Briton; but really because No
is an author.
The world-wicked and barbarous as it is-ahords
no parallel to this. Ii is not the injustice 9t earhb
it is the Injustice OF hell CHARLEs hEADk
London, Aug 49, 1875.