XXIV 
TRADE MARKS 
The registration of your trade mark should 
be attended to as soon as possible if it is your 
intention to enter the Latin American field 
with the article which you manufacture. In 
many of these countries the laxity of the laws 
governing this important commercial protec 
tion work great hardship on legitimately es 
tablished enterprises. I regret to state that 
in nearly every one of these lands, it is legally 
permissible for anyone to register any trade 
mark on fulfilling certain simple conditions 
and the payment of a small fee. The result is 
that a class of men without scruples are con 
tinually on the lookout for articles which are 
being well advertised in this country, knowing 
the probabilities are that sooner or later 
there will be a demand for them throughout 
the world and especially in the place wherein 
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