New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-14
4 STORY OF 4 CERTAIN COUNTRY.
WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN THE VAN OF HUMAN
PROGRESS.


PROGRESS.
once upon a time a great many years ago uers
,ras a certain country Now this country was new,
not having existed much above a century. In This
new country which would sometimes admit privatey,
that 1t marched in the Van Of Human Progress there
was peculiar way Of settling all matters before tha
Bar OF Public Opinion,
One day to this Bar Of Public Opinion came
4 little band belonging 10 a certain guild Of authors.
And after the preliminary ceremonies the spokesman
said: "We be writer's trying build up literature
I'm this country that It not be said OF our people
in time 10 come: They had no poet and they dled'
One of us Is poet another historian, still another
novelist We are hungry. for 1t is that its scarcely
possible b make even poor living at our work
We ask of you more consderate treatment and aoovs
all an honest international copyright whereby we may
eject the wolf from our doorstep. on which. OF cer
taintv he has long sat and hOwed most dismally.'
Then the Judge who sat in the Bar Of Public Opinion
snorted vigorously three four times and got red In
the face and leaned over and said:
"You blank literary fellows want the earth. ons
meal day is enough for a who sits around in the
house and doesn't do anything but write. You can
stop writing Just soon as you want TO anyhow,
don't read your bOoks-I can help myself TO just az
good reading matter from another country that hap
pens to use the language as we do. without cost
ING a cent If you can't live at writing go into the
grocery business. There's big money in good
grocery in a live town and know IT, Move on now
till give this man patent his sausage stuiifng
machine and a land grant 70 the Crooked Creek
Railroad"
Then the authors went out sadly, and as they were
crossing the street a man who had made million
dollars running a sheep-skin tannery pretty nearly
grove over them with two bobtailed horses, an Eng
lsh coachman and carriage with a coat Of arms
copied out Of the dictionary painted on each sns.
And after they had gone out. philosopher rom
land ~
study ito institutions. said TO the Judge;
fear me that In ways you are not laying
the foundation tr your country properly; DO not
lilc the way you treated the writer's and anu told
that YOU buy only foreign pictures or you do
purchase one by native artist he must put Paris
In letters six bnches high IN corner. And tho
other day Rad Of the ministers OF certain
Denomination who get salary Of S135 year TIL
thoy reach the age OF eighty when thoy are retired
ON pension Of 3l2 per annum. l fear that you
are not doing much as you should for Art,
literature and Moralityhat you are becoming alto
gether absorbed IN trade
Great scott - snortel the Judge. he jumped up
and leaned over the Bar OF Public Opinion Caesars
Ghost where have you been for the last week. Art
literature and Morality socrates and 10 Smith
didn't YOU hear about prize fight the other day
scventy-nvc rounds. sir-thousands OF SPECTATORS
bull6tn boards tho winner scoops in $4,000 Art,
Literature, and Smittcn Christopher why SIR, the man
that won that fight las twenty two Inch blceps |!
D'yOu think could develop a twenty two-inch
hCeps IN a country altogether bs0rbed In tradel Now
don't interrupt again while am figuring I'D lust
how much more pig iron We produce than all thA
rest OF the world together"