A history of the United States for schools . thor. Many of our leading pub-lishers— be it said to their credit—were led by a senseof honor to pay the foreign author the customary roy-alty; in this there was constant risk, since nothing butthe courtesy of the trade prevented others from pub-lishing cheap editions of the same book; the state ofthings was such as to favor dishonest and unscrupulouspersons at the expense of the author and the honestpublisher. To remedy these evils, the InternationalCopyright Act of 1891 gives to foreign authors, undercertain conditions, the benefit of copyright in
A history of the United States for schools . thor. Many of our leading pub-lishers— be it said to their credit—were led by a senseof honor to pay the foreign author the customary roy-alty; in this there was constant risk, since nothing butthe courtesy of the trade prevented others from pub-lishing cheap editions of the same book; the state ofthings was such as to favor dishonest and unscrupulouspersons at the expense of the author and the honestpublisher. To remedy these evils, the InternationalCopyright Act of 1891 gives to foreign authors, undercertain conditions, the benefit of copyright in the UnitedStates. A political reform from which excellent results have Panama in 1825, but the attendance was very small, and nothing cameof it. THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XVI. 466 already begun to flow is the adoption by many statesof the Australian ballot-system, for the pur-pose of checking intimidation and bribery atelections. The system, so called because it was firstperfected by our English-speaking cousins in Australia, BallotReform. VIEW IN PACIFIC AVENUE, secures complete secrecy of voting. Before the electionof 1892, the Australian ballot, or some modification ofit, had been adopted by thirty-seven Election of 1892. A new party, called the 1 I have given several views in New York, Boston, Chicago, and othercities, as they looked long ago, or at the time of their beginnings. Byway of contrast, I here give this view of a street in Tacoma, the youngestof our important cities. Nothing could better illustrate the extraordinaryrapidity with which some of our new cities spring up. In the centennialyear, 1876, Tacoma consisted of a saw-mill and huts giving shelter toabout 300 persons. When I first visited the place, in 18S7, the popula-tion was said to be 9,000, and it was already calling itself the City ofDestiny. The census of 1890 showed a population of 36,000; and itwas in 1895 more than 50,000. The view is from a photograph taken in1892. §§ ^72^
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