New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-21
money abroad appears to revive the demand ior
American securities.
~ UvIrCKY SONG WRITER.

7, is unfortunate that Fraser should be obliged
70 she his publishers. The boast has been made
~ late wears that literature was meeting WIN
better rewards in this country than formerly.
But here is Fraser-of course we refer 10 thc foeC
Fraser. John 4. Fraser, OF llllnois-trylng 10
compel his publishers to pay him paltry cents
. coov ROYALTY on his songs. And the worst
chino about the case is that Fraser is the poet OF
tho Democratic party The man who writes the
ballads for n people is said to WELD greater
,oyver than the man who makes the laws. Fraser
wrote the ballads for the Democrats In the cam
naion of 1888, after which the Republicans
marched to q glorious victory lhere are men III
this country who never heard OF fraser,-cold'
mosaic individuals interested IN the manufacture
Of patent pumps or the management OF phosphate
s.o.orios Rut who that has ever heard his
,oncI,i,o lyric Of The Old Red Bandanna" can
toroot Iohn 4 Fraser? And that grand burst
-, r;,htoous INDIGNATION. They Tell Is They
Don,t Rut They Do, will it not live? Who
cop foroct the ringing melody of out in the
Vost Chasing Rainbows With Brice' or the SIM
,lo notbos of those two heart songs, Hear Our
Irollo,v crvp and "Cleveland 'Cant Run and
1,,,rn,or ia Sloyvn9 We tell only the truth
,,Ior ", cav that thousands Of Republicans trem-
od for the success of their party when they first
I'D That stirring Democratic battle song, Have
Won Hard That Andrew Jackson's Dead? IL
emf down Jacksons vote but IL almost eiec'e"
Cleveland. John \. Fraser wrote all oil 'hcSc
songs if we mistake not, and now ne mas 10 sue
his mercenary publisher for cents.
Frasers suit against his publishers WHO 10
business in Chicago, is to obtain the royalty when
la claims n he due on The Redhot Song BOOK,
ubicb contained the songs mentioned ABOVE as
,.ou "a others including, at the end. That choce
sor,, intended for Chdreas Democratic Gam
,oio, Climbs entitled Papa Can't Read Inc
siol,ct lie Votes" Fraser claims cents for
oacb conv sold-the publishers reply tha' tney
didn't sell any. or, at least, that they didn sell
ono,,,,h to make a profit 1t was the worst year
o.. Do,nocrotic songs that they ever saw the pup
,;shors CIV ON the other hand, Fraser pictures
thc hours which he labored over 'nose soHs'' ~
is hard enough to write an ordinary song he ca
Mains but when il comes to writing DeniooIa'io
sorg tho labor becomes doubiy oppressive linen
tho tbouoht Of it aftcrward. MI fraser does
not oxnoct ever again to have a clear conscience
NIGHT after NIGHT a gaunt spectre OF an outraged
| ,oo,io loars oycr the hcadboard OF his bed ana
clutches At his dcfcncccss throat. MI fraser mas
ro,rottcd n thousand times that he wrote uloS'
.onos for the Democratic party, Dut IL Is 700 ia'e
.lo :, nov. and he thinks that at least he
should have his royalty >,
poot Frascr's case is a sal one, but he should
NOT dcspair There is another chahoe lor III"
which lie does not seem TO recoSil~'' "ee ",''
write grand, inspiring ode Tor 'hca-o, c"'iO'''
We've Got 1t, But We're Blessed II we mo"
What In Thunder We're Going 10 10 WIZ" ~