Show HOPKINSON SMITH DECLARES UNCLE CABIN A f VICIOUS BOOK i Cleveland C O 0 Feb 14 HF F Hopkin Hopkinson son Smith the well wen known author and lecturer recently declared that Mrs I 1 famous book Uncle Toms T ma Cabin was vicious and harmful h in its effect upon Its readers In Inan an inter interview interview i view today in this city Mr Smith re ro repeated repeated the statement lent and gives the following as his reasons Because it paints an absurdly false picture of the conditions of the tn south before the th war The book would QUId have us believe that the southern southerly people were brutes who tracked slaves with bloodhounds and flayed their negroes with the lash It is a book which di dl divides vides our country into halves and I paints points the people of the north side of I Ithe the th dividing line as angels and those on the south side as brutes and mis miscreants miscreants miscreants A book like this is harmful tl I 1 not only believe that the book did much to bring on the civil war hut but butI I believe it is doing much to keep open the broach breach between betwee the north and nd the south I think it is wrong that our young people should read and venerate that book as a a true picture of Ameri Amen American can life south of or Mason Maron and DIxons line lint The performance p of the play as adopted from the book Is just as harm harmful harmful ful tul The book Uncle Toms Cabin pre precipitated the war of the rebellion reb John Johr Browns raid made it inevitable table |