That Tax On English Books
The faculty and students of the University of Michigan have petitioned for repeal of the tax on books in English as it has been repealed on books in other languages. ïhat such a discrimination should be made by the committee that revised the tariff is of itself discouragement to the petitioners. The president of the university may expect as civil treatment for his protest as Jack Cade gave the unfortunate scholar to whose face he threatened to prove that the petitioner "had men about him that usually talk of a noun and verb and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear." A committee that Iets in free the trash of continental fiction that is sapping the consciences of American youth who can read more than English and claps 25 cents on every dollar of the price of a foreign scientific, historical or other work in the vernacular of the country is rast reasoning with.
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