Excerpt from Harper's Weekly, Vol. 58: A Journal of Civilization; January 3, 1914 It is a well-known fact that mod ern trade combinations tend strone toward constancy of proce and pro ducts. And by their very nature are opposed to new processes and new products originated by independent in ventors. And hence tend to restrain competition in the development and sale of patents and patent rights; and consequently tend to discourage in dependent inventive thought, to the great detriment of the nation. And with injustice to inventors whom the Constitution especially intended to encourage and protect in their rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.