The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-06-14

| so within the memory or men. Ant
| while biological problems We're occupy
ing attention, Alfred Russell Wa1lac
and Mr.. Darwin at the same time and in
dependently invented evolution.
So it goes. A, B and C, representing
the average mechanical ability of socie
ty, do yeoman's service in working III
| to q certain Improvement or invention
they prepare the ground and establish
the premises, do, in fact, everything bu
draw the ready to hand and budding
conclusion called an inaention. In Jan.
uary, d, who is little quicker witteG
than the average, and who and who's
ancestors never perhaps did anything
toward establishing the premises, catch
es the suggested idea and ''invents" the
| conclusion.
4, II and G are climbing up the same
hill toward the same top and conclusion
and would have reached the climax and
| invention in February, dozen more
would have arrived in March, and by
the end of the year hundred or two
| inventors would have come, all perhaps,
| or many Of them the men who and
| whose ancestors had done the prelimi-
nary work. Suddenly, to change the
figure, the flower is plucked by ID, who
| did nothing in the production of the
| plant; and those who raised the plant
are made to pay royalties to D for sew
enteen years simply because D plucked
| their flower, and as q kind of penalty
| for laboring with, watering and tending,
| the plant on which their own flower
grew for DIS pluclsing.
The patent office does more harm than
good and more injustice than justice.
1t could be dispensed with. The tele-
phone business ought to be assimilated
with gas, water and electric light
ing companies rather than with
the inter town and state tele-
graph business, and so private
enterprise ought to be permitted to es-
tabllsh a local telephone system in any
town, and, if it could, rates would be
such that every house would have tel
ephone as necessarily as gas. electric
light or water. The patent office pre-
vents it.
A sop was thrown to the farmer some
years ago by the establishment Of the
agricultural department, with a cabinet
position for its head. The Manufacture
ers' association are annually advocating
the establishment of q manufacturers
department annex to the cabinet. There
might be also a mines and mining de-
partment. q fisheries department, a
transportation department, a Standard
Oil department, down to a Mrs. Wins
lows soothing syrup department, with a
soothing syrup cabinet secretary. The
country must be saved and our states
men must do something, and can be
counted upon to do it so long as they do
not have to foot the bills personally, and
SO long as, through the medium of indi-
rect taxation, no one can see just how
much it all costsand who pays it.
The desire to have government own
railroads and telegraph lines, and per-
mission to private enterprise to parallel
them, and the frequent modern advoca- |
cy of municipal ownership of water gas
and electric light plants, etc, Is ali of |
piece and results from the logic of the |
entrance of government into private |
business at all, from the practical abdi-
cation by the people of their sovereignty |
and the hence resulting Intellectual at
tempt otherwise to solve problems where
competition practically fails. and from
the fact that government is toe busy
running after false gods to attend to the
worship of its own Lares and
Penates.
All which will result in millions Of dol
lars of loss to the American people in
socialistic and fallacious experiment
Municipal and state ownership cannot
perform the respective services as eco
Nci, -
such ownership furnishes an enlarged
field for patronage and spells; 1t further
produces dependence upon paternal
government in place of Independent
self-determination, while parallel
schemes result in loading upon the pub
lie the burden and expense of two or
more outfits where one is sufficient
The real solution is for the public to
resume it's birth-right and sovereignty,
command its government to exercise its,
function and Iegislate down railroad,
telephone, gas, water and
,lectrlc light rates wherever they are
high,
From eminent domain and the use of
public streets, the public derives the
light to solve these problems in this
way.
Freedom and survival of the fittest are
llone competent to solve the post ofilce
problem, a due regard for justice would
tboiish the patent office, a trend toward
simplicity would wipe out
he agricultural department, ordinary
quality before the law should do away
With so much Of the custom house bust
less as is engaged in switching taxes
nto private tills; in other words, the
principles of democracy, unhindered :
would of themselves realize the ends
lined at in this plank while the oppo-
lite down hill trend is reversion to hui
nanities earlier, easier dependencies
pom paternalistc authority.
(To be continued)
GEO. M, WALLACE a