appeal is universal; but one might conceive of conditions demanding a
purely national Canadian treatment, which New York or London publishers
would not issue, when Canada would literally be damming the springs of
her national literature. Canada considers her population too small to
support a purely national literature. Not so reasons Belgium of
smaller population; nor Ireland; nor Scotland. The fault here is
primarily in the copyright law. A book published first in the United
States gains international copyright. A book published first in Canada
may be pirated in the United States or England; and on such printed
editions no payment can be collected by the author. The profits in
England and the United States were lost to authors on two of the most
popular books ever published by Canadians. [1]


[1] Charles Gordon's _Black Rock_, pirated from his own publisher, sale
half a million; Kirby's _Chien d'Or_, sale one million.




CHAPTER V

WHY RECIPROCITY WAS REJECTED

I

If American capital and American enterprise dominate Canadian mines,
Canadian timber interests, Canadian fisheries; if American elevators
are strung across the grain provinces and American flour mills have
branches established from Winnipeg to Calgary; if American implement