The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-03-30
American and British Pirates,

Come now. what your cause nseisiA
that suite npiaiici,t s~uitci'cli shall s;iyl
fair VOID foi. jlie other s.de.. That
complaint which capnot hint i'm a dA
senting GIGS nny"Itele ia oiit, OF luck.
A thing which is all good or all bad is
properly am object of suspicion in this
world; we get Il sort of imprcssion that
it is oft it's beat, shat ii lwlnn1~ III Ills
next world, above or below-climate
not suited to it here.
English pirates have hurt me some
what; how much / do not know. But,
ON the other hand, English law has
helped ilc vastly. Can Amy foreign
author Of books say that about Anteri-
a lawp, YOU. Know lih ca,t't,
Look Mt the matter { ,lmly, ie:lsona-
bly,. AS 1 infer from what you say
about your article, Your complaint IS
that American authors are pirateI IN
England. Well. whose fauit, is tAatp
1t is n6body's but the authors. Eng
land furnishes him a perfect remedy;
if he does not choose to. take advantr
age of it, let him have ,self-rcspcct
enough to retire to the privacy OF his
cradle, not sit out on the public curb
stone and cry. To-day the American
author IL go to Canada, spend three
days there and come home with an
English and Canadian copyright,
which is rs strong as if it had been
built out of railroad iron. If he does
not make this trip and do this thing.
it is a confession that lie does not
think his foreign. market taluabla
enough TO Justify the expense Of sec,il.-
ing it by the above process Now. it
may turn out that fac book is present.
lly pirated i'll London. What then?
Why. simply th:s--thc pirate has paid
that man u compliment; he has Thought
more of the book than the mar thought
Of it himself. And doubtless the MAJ
is not %pecuniatily injured, since The
pirate would probably not have off.
cred anything for tho book if it lad
been copyrighted: but would merely
have left it in oblivion and unpu6.
lished.
l believe. and it stands to reason.
that nj! the American books that are
pirated in these latter days of England
arc of the complimentary SOFT, aid
that the piracies work no computable
injury to the authors pocket; and /
also believe that il tliis class IT books
should be copyrighted hcncctorii,,
their publication over there would
cease, and then all the loss would fall
upon tile author, since they would not
lie any better of, as regards money;
ti,an they were before, aud would loss
their compliment compliment besides.
l think NC are not in a good position
to throw bricks at the English pirate.
We haven't any to spare. We need
them to throw at the American con.
gross, and at the American author who
negelects his great privileges, and then
tries to hunt up some way to throw
the blame upon the only nation in the
world that is magnanimous enough TO
say to him: ''Whilc you are the guest
OF u laws and our flag, you shall not
All the books which 1 have pub.
iished in tho last 15years are protected
by English copyright. In that time
have suffered pretty heavily in temper
and pocket from imperfect copyrirht
laws; but they were American, not
English. / have no quarrel over there.
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