COMPARATIVE PROTECTION GIVEN BY THE GOVERNMENT
Our formidable warships are always ready to race to the furthest
end of the world to protect our merchants and their wares. Even our
missionaries have the "moral" support of our "strong arm," in forcing
on the so-called heathens the barter of "cozy corners in Heaven"
for "cash down," but it is a notorious fact that certain so-called
civilized countries are making it their habit and custom quite openly
to appropriate every invention that is worth appropriating, providing
the inventor is a foreigner, and the unfortunate inventor has not
even got a cause of action at law, nor would the inventor's complaint
at the State Department be productive of anything more substantial
than polite regrets. These modern Barbary Pirates need not fear
another Commodore Perry, so long as they devote their depredations
solely to the comparatively more valuable production of the brains
instead of the hands.
[Illustration: HAS NOT THE INGENUITY OF THE INVENTOR ENABLED EVEN
THE FARMER * * * TO GET GREATER RETURNS FOR HIS LABOR? * * * HAS
HE NOT MADE HIS WORK LIGHTER AND HAS HE NOT ENABLED HIM TO GET
MORE OF THE GOOD THINGS OF THIS WORLD?]
[Illustration: THROUGH THE INVENTOR'S INGENUITY AND INDUSTRY THIS
COUNTRY HAS ATTAINED ITS MIGHTY POTENCY IN WAR.]