The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-31
BETTER TIMES FOR INVENTORS.

One Of the most pathetic situations
n literature is that OF the unfortu-
cate inventor, who has struggled
through the best part Of his life to
perfect an idea, who has impover-
ished his family, denied himself every
comfort, incurred the ridicule of his
neigbbors, and finally just at the
moment Of success, has seen all the
rewards Of his sacrifice gathered
in by some interloping capitalist.
Unhappily this situation is not con-
fined to fiction or the stage. 1t is
too common in real life. The mar
of ideas Is not often the one who can
best turn them to practical account.
There is a division Of faculties here
Js in most other directions. The
inventor and money-maker are diff
farent persons. One man %conceives
IN invention and the other coins the
patent in gold.
Fortunately the same principle Of
he division Of labor which has
Usually condemned one man to the
hard work of creation, and appointed
another to collect the returns, can be
made to secure justice instead Of an
injustice. The inventor who lacks q
practical business faculty can buy it.
This is one OF the triumphs OF the
modern social organization.
Under the old system n man would
devote himself for fifteen or twenty
years to the development OF his
bought with q single thoughted en-
lhu-iasm which left no opportunity
FOR anything else. Then when his
daa was perfected, and the time had
ONE to turn it to his OWL M terial
advantage, he found himself help
lassly confronting a situation with
which he had never learned to cope,
md the result of his toll would slip
through his fingers before he had
inc to open his eyes. 1t was nee
,seary in those limos for an inventor
Sho wished TO make money, to be
not only a scientist, but an acute
lawyer, and a practical business az
well. Now, all he has to do il to
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The establishment of the Press
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that In . few years an inventor wonls
81 soon think Of trying to get aloni
without the patent office itself q
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rous wDpnRsuRs,
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