Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-23
Inventive Genus.


What has been done by inventive genius"
The writer. being all inventor who has
taken much pains 10 learn from the meChan-
L. who would naturally build the things i'll
vented by him the worth Of tl.eir labor and
that OF tine material used in things similar
to those invented by him. and then from
the manufacturers of these things or their
,alrSmrn the cost of selling and obtaining
their pay therefor. he claims to he fairly
posted as Ia what the profits "f such manu-
facturrrS are. and a. Ia who gains and VIII"
LOSES by inventive genius.
Fir>t-Ihr capitalists who employ labor.
the only creator of capital. are now holding
wage-labor in the worst Kind of slavery 10y
the inventive genius secured by patents /"
munOpuli>tS.
Second Inventive genius. aS now CON
troled. is damaging to wage-labor-hrst
in greatly reducing the demand for it. and.
secondly. in greatly increasing the compel
tiun for employment
Take. for illustration. the guard-Saw. in
the Knife and Bar Works. No Thousand
irSt-claSS skilled mechanics, with but thciI
hammers. drills. without power other than
their own Ia run them, with their culd-chis-
els and their files, can do the work done by
one of these machines. and do il as well A.
done by this machine. which is attended I"
by one man. This machine, in short viii
cost probably the worth of two mems lab, T
for one year. and will last many wears,
throws nine hundred and ninety-mine men
out of employment.
What do these mechanics. thus thrown
fa
this machine? Poverty. a. sure a. death
and taxes.
What does the employer of wage-labur
gain by the existence of this machine? He
gains the means of reveling in luxury and
riutouS living. and the power to be- a tyTamt
of the worst kind. He gains far more
profitable control over wage-lahOr than any
>Iave-Owner of the south ever had lsO long
a. he can prevent the consolidation of this
class of Labor over his slaves. All the cap
italist has Ia do i Ia lock this class Of Labor
out of employment until il StarVeS or does
his bidding. Whatever that bidding bc. not
excepting the taking of life: while the slave
master could get pr0titabl" labor from hi>
slave only 10y providing him with the proper
amount Of mu>clt-prOducing food. the
same a. he must give his horse IL enable
uim Ia Il" hard day'>-work.
After having thus stated the ca>e. ii need
not be thought that the writer Is ignorant
~ Ia the profits made 10y the Springfield
manufacturers. nor that he does not know
the impu>~ibillty of the laburlmg class lN-
ing in any comfort on the pay now Oh
tanned for their labor.
With the exception of small number of
the be>t-skilled mechanics. the labnrims
lass of Springfield. averaged up, do not get
III. 81. A.
How. how can man with wife and even
nut two children live, a well a. a decent
brute is entitled Ia live on this amount?
DO the manufacturers of Springfield live
A. these wagr-labortrS have tu live uT
~tarve? Not much.
How about the truth of the state
ment made by business Man" a.
Ia the number of two thousand or three
thousand machines shipped daily each day
Of the week. when the published official
statement of the same date puts the ship
memtS of this month at %.Gu2? and aS To
the profits of these manufacturers for the
last two years The answer is that he i
an IEmuramuN (which his article shows he
i mott OF an intentional drcriver. The
writer well knows that the laSt year profits
Of the Ea>t-Strert Co. was between twenty
and fifty per cent: l. e.. for every one ut
the several million dollars worth of articles
made. a profit "f from TWO t" nNr hundred
thousand doll r. was put into their ~truu.
box.
How j. this for high brother laboriug-
men Owhrthrr Those who make the Cham
pion machines OT those who Use them" And
this. when very few farms in Clark county
VIII net the owner three per cent when
every expenditure is deducted.
And NOW comes the egut>Iu of the writer
II has, on paper. an Automatic Grain
Binding Harvester which it is be-
licyed will SuperSede the Appleby
binder. now generally in u~r. and
which invention, on paper. when made
and thoroughly tried in the field and found
what it is believed Ia be- will b,' manufact-
ured upon the cooperative system of car
rying ON manufacturing; and Ia bring this
machine into the coming harvest the ISc of
a few hundred dollars would do much ser
vice.
The writer has lived too long to now be-
lirve he would br proiited by having clear
title to every inch of the United States.
when a very large portion of its producing
class are lacking many of the absolute ne
c.SSitieS of life.
The full proper name of Business Man"
is requested. that the public may n w who
the man is that is such an intentional de-
ceiVeT. ANDREW WHITLEY.