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This great, rich, prosperous nation has
been made a "fence," a receiver of stolen goods, and shamelessly
committed to the crime for which poor wretches are sent to jail.
Truly, when history is written, and it is learned that the whole
power and statesmanship of the government were enlisted in behalf
of the pork interest, while the literature of the country and the
literary class were contemptuously ignored, it may be that the
present period will become known as the Pork Era of the Republic.
It is a strange fact that English publishers are recognizing our
rights in advance of our own lawmakers.
In relating his experience in the pages of this magazine, Mr.
Julian Hawthorne said in effect that one of the best rewards of
the literary life was the friends it enabled the writer to make.
When giving me his friendship, he proved how true this is. In my
experience the literary class make good, genial, honest friends,
while their keen, alert minds and knowledge of life in many of its
most interesting aspects give an unfailing charm to their society.


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