CHAPTER 31

COMPARATIVE TREATMENT THE WORLD ACCORDS TO THEM, AND SUMMARY

Illustrations

BY HENRY ROBINSON ENGINEER AND INVENTOR 5

A. G. ARNOLD, Esq. 7

THE SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR THE UNSUCCESSFUL INVENTOR 12

THE STEPS BY WHICH HE IS REQUIRED TO CLIMB AND MOUNT THAT DESIRED EMINENCE. 14

INVENTORS SELDOM HAVE ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND PROSPECTS. 16

FINANCE MINISTERS. 17

VISION SUFFICIENTLY PENETRATING TO DETECT THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE. 21

"NO ONE POOR ENOUGH TO DO HIS INVENTION REVERENCE." 21

"A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH." 27

THE GOOD WILL AND WELL WISHES OF THOSE WHO HELPED CREATE IT. 29

NUMEROUS AND DEEP ARE THE PITFALLS THAT THE WOULD-BE-SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR MUST AVOID. 31

VICTIMS CONSTANTLY THROWN UP BY THE WAVES OF PASSION AND FOLLY, ON THE STERILE SHORE OF HUMAN INDIFFERENCE. 35

SHORT AND EASY CUT TO OPULENCE AND EASE. 35

WHO CAN FATHOM OR SET A LIMIT TO THE INGENUITY OF THAT DIVINE CREATION, THE HUMAN BRAIN? NONE BUT ITS CREATOR. 37

OUR ORDINARY EVERYDAY MECHANICAL UTILITIES WOULD BE CONSIDERED MAGIC BY HIM WHO WROTE--"THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN." 37

NEWTON. 57

HERSCHEL. 57

S. F. B. MORSE. 57

ROBERT FULTON, INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT. 57

BENJ. FRANKLIN. 57

ELIAS HOWE. 57

JAS. WATT. 57

LORD KELVIN. 57

THOS. A. EDISON. 57

SIG. MARCONI. 57

SIR H. BESSEMER. 57

C. H. MC CORMICK. 57

PROFESSOR HUXLEY. 57

HUMBOLDT. 57

CHAS. DARWIN. 57

SEYMOUR M. BONSALL. 57

AN INTELLIGENT AND PRUDENT INVENTOR WILL CAREFULLY NOTE HIS OWN CAPACITY. 61

OBSERVE EVERYTHING CAREFULLY. TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SEE. REASON LOGICALLY. DO NOT OVERLOOK DETAILS. 63

DON'T IMAGINE YOURSELF A SOLOMON. 63

"THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW." DON'T BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN SWALLOW. 63

DON'T SET YOURSELF A QUIXOTIC TASK. 63

DON'T GO ABOUT WITH A FACE AS SOLEMN AND ANXIOUS AS THOUGH YOU WERE ATLAS. 63

SHE WANTS TO BE SHOWN. 63

SHE WILL NOT BE SLOW IN HANDING YOU UP THE SUGAR LUMPS. 63

TO CAST ASIDE WHEN YOU BECOME SUCCESSFUL THE SHARER OF YOUR EARLY POVERTY AND STRUGGLES. 63

YOU WILL BE GREATER BY NOT FOLLOWING ANYBODY'S EXAMPLE IN THAT RESPECT. 63

ONLY A TEMPERATE ABSTEMIOUS REGIME OF LIFE CAN GIVE THE HEALTHY BRAIN. 63

DON'T FORGET THE PEOPLE YOU KNEW. 63

THE SWIPEING MFG. CO. HAVE STOLEN MY INVENTION. 80

WE MUST HAVE 1000 DOLLARS AS A RETAINING FEE. 80

DEFENDED IN COURT * * * * ON TECHNICALITIES. 80

THE EXPLOITERS OF HIS INVENTION CAN ENJOY THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS WITH IMPUNITY. 80

WHY, OH WHY, IS THE STEALING OF ONE KIND OF PROPERTY A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, ANOTHER ONLY A CIVIL TORT? 85

BUT IS IT DIFFERENT OH! NOW! IF THE STOLEN PROPERTY IS A MENTAL INSTEAD OF A HAND PRODUCT? 86

THE WORLD IS USUALLY MORE MINDFUL OF THE MAN WITH THE "BIG STICK," THAN WITH THE "BIG GRIEVANCE." 88

DIFFERENCE IN THE TREATMENT METED OUT BY OUR GOVERNMENT TO HIM WHO RENDERS SERVICES TO SOCIETY, BY DIGGING IN THE DIRT, AND TO HIM WHO USES THE BRAIN. 90

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? 92

THROUGH THE INVENTOR'S INGENUITY AND INDUSTRY THIS COUNTRY HAS ATTAINED ITS MIGHTY POTENCY IN WAR. 93

Inventors and Inventions

DEDICATED TO MY FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR A. G. ARNOLD, ESQ.

Preface

The object of publishing this pamphlet is to awaken the public conscience to the great injustice continually being done to a numerous and worthy class of intellectual toilers, and the evil resulting from the same to the general public.

If perchance this will help to remedy the wrong to any extent, the author will feel amply repaid for the trouble and expense incurred in pointing it out to the public.

Respectfully yours THE AUTHOR H. Robinson