. Loyal citizenship. ationof capital that inventions are allowed to be the government grants a patent, the inventoris given for a term of years the exclusive propertyright in his idea. A man will work hard to make adiscovery if he knows that he will be allowed aproperty right in it that will reward him for hislabor and thought. The rights of authors andcomposers in their works are protected by copyright,as inventions are protected by patent, and forsimilar reasons. Capital and division of labor. Labor and capitalare really partners in production, one being as necessaryas the othe
. Loyal citizenship. ationof capital that inventions are allowed to be the government grants a patent, the inventoris given for a term of years the exclusive propertyright in his idea. A man will work hard to make adiscovery if he knows that he will be allowed aproperty right in it that will reward him for hislabor and thought. The rights of authors andcomposers in their works are protected by copyright,as inventions are protected by patent, and forsimilar reasons. Capital and division of labor. Labor and capitalare really partners in production, one being as necessaryas the other. Division of labor and the use of capitalhave grown side by side. No man alone could haveinvented and built the comphcated and expensivemachinery that is used to cut the wool off a sheepsback and finally turn it into clothing. When, how-ever, division of labor had been carried to the pointwhere each worker did some simple task, it waseasier to invent a machine to do that task. The use Capital, the Partner of Laltor. Fk;. it. An okl-limc (■()l)l)lor. wln) worked with-out much iissistiiiuc from iai)ital. His output wassmall, and so was his reward. of capital niado ])ossil)le the incrcasod (li\ision oflabor and the building of the niaehinery To-day few workers ever make the whole of a shoe factory, for example, one man does notliingbut nail on heels, day in and day out. This is nmehless interesting for him than il would be to makewhole pairs of shoes. lie has ceased to buy leather,make it up into shoes with his own tools, and to })ayhimself by selling the ])roduct. The appliances forshoemaking are now costly machines, too expensive for 28 Loyal Citizenship the individual irorker to oum; and they can he usedeconomically only by many specialized workers. Moreshoes are made in a factory and at less cost thanwould be possible by hand labor. The worker in theshoe factory gets more articles in return for his laborthan did the old-time shoemaker (Fig. 17). In the f
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