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A modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted to the requirements of different magazines, thus combining Art-for-Art's-Sake with Writing-for-the-Market. Read at the First Dinner of the American Periodical Publishers' Association, in Washington, April, 1904.
The Anti-Trust Clam / For McClure's Magazine / The clam that once, on Jersey's banks, / Was like the man who dug it, free, / Now slave-like thro' the market clanks / In chains of corporate tyranny.