Show t IS A MAN Al ENTITLED N TO ro WHAT ILK IEE I PRODUCES By L L. A. A Hollenbeck Hollonbeck Part II Some will tell you that Invention is a n part of or evolution and that no noman man mall is entitled to the credit of a great accomplishment because the I future future development Is based based upon past and that previous pre thinkers made the present Inventors Inventor's success possible which is true ex except except ex ex- that It does not detra detract t from rom the great merit of or present There was a time when the Ule used by man were yere stone afterward copper was used and then someone Invented bronze which is a mixture of or copper and tin and that step in evolution was so great that it is called the the bronze age The he wealth of the Rockefellers and all aU of his financial associates would be poverty compared to the wealth produced b by the Invention of or bronze And yet Henry George and others say that a man shall have I what he produces The various In InI Inventions In- In I of or the present time are labor savers and m many ny of or them sev soy are worth several se times the wealth of a Carnegie and after a short term of a patent the Inventions are turned over to the public for forthe forthe forthe the public benefit because it would be very unjust to give a man a perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- monopoly on on a great invention invention tion simply because he be Invented It and produced it And although these thes Inventions may be based upon previous previous previous pre pre- thought yet et this civilization is several thousand years old and the past Is an eternity and the Inventor Is the first person In all of the ages that has actually had the particular thought or mental conception to produce produce pro pro- pro produce duce a great Invention like the tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph or the linotype and the accomplishment of a great point in evolution e Is distinctly his and the wealth of the world is greatly greatly greatly great great- ly Increased thereby and that Increase increase increase in In- crease of wealth Is principally because because be be- cause of the mental process of one mind and wealth is la largely mental and man Is not entitled to all that he produces invention and discovery is a large field but It is comparatively small to Invention and discovery Inventions Inventions Inventions In In- and either pat- pat or are mental creations and the products of ideas A half halt dozen men may walk over oyer an undeveloped eloped tract of or land and otie will see great es there another another will see lesser o or other opp opportunities opportunities op op- p while another will have hae havea haea a mere flicker of an idea and the theother theother theother other other three wont see anything at atall atall all but an undesirable waste that offers no stimulus to the conception or the imagination Two farmers live Uve side by side on farms of equal location and productiveness and with equal opportunities to start with both of ot them industrious but the theone theono theono ono one has no calculation or management manage manage- management ment and at the end of or twenty years he has no windbreak except a barbed wire fence fence that looks like the tattered tattered tat tat- and disheveled remainder of ofa ofa ofa a Kansas c cyclone clone while his buildings and the general condition of r 1 the farm has the picturesque appearance of an pandemonium But the other farmer armer is a careful manager His Ills conception tion lion and judgment are In good workIng working work work- ork- ork Ing order The Tho farm arm Is 18 systematically systematically cally handled He lie has planted planted an orchard and windbreaks and groves Ilia buildings are well and substantially substantially substantially built and as a man looks over ver the premises and compares It 11 with what it was when it was first set set- tied lied It suggests that an oriental Magician has passed his mighty wand over o tho thu vista and transformed it into in- in in into to a lovely habitation and an earthly paradise The poorly managed farm has no nb attraction for the investor while T tho the well ell mann managed ed farm has bas great attractions attractions attractions and tho the Investors are grabbing for fol it at top notch prices The physical physical phy phy- labor cuts a n minor figure Inthe In inthe inthe the respective values of the farms It ItIs is tho the same sam in a town or city A good good business block in a poor location location location loca loca- tion or u n poor business block in lu a rood good location is not worth what it cost to construct it but a n good commodious commodious com cow well arranged business block in in a good location is worth I Imore more than it cost to construct it and the difference is purely a mental dif dif- ference This is all aU a refutation of the theor theory that a man shall have just what he produces and of the Socialist Social Social- 1st idea that if It the production of or the country be 00 add added d together and divided divided divided divid divid- ed by the number of or workers classified classi fied fled that tho the quotient would bo be what each one Is entitled to in wages o n- n |