First. All manufacturers of automatic musical instruments or their controllers have vast interests involved. Capital and time have been heavily spent in creating an honest, legitimate and, beyond question, legal business. They have acquired patent rights, built at large expense special machinery to make a more perfect and less costly product. In short, have exercised and exhibited the same ambition and enterprise that is put into any business where price and merit is the determining factor of success. Second. The manufacturer of self-playing instruments has done much to extend and create cultivated musical taste in the community. This has at no time been at the expense of the composer, but, to the contrary, has increased not only the sale of sheet music but has not diminished the study of music, as the following witnesses testified under oath in the recent copyright case: White Smith Music Publishing Company _v._ Apollo Company, which testimony was never rebutted or disputed as to fact. Mr. George Schleiffarth, witness called on behalf of defendant, being duly sworn, testified as follows: "I have been writing music for thirty-seven years. I have written about fifteen hundred copyrighted compositions, several comic operas, and innumerable musical sketches of all sorts. I have also published some music personally and have now compositions with nearly all the leading publishers in the United States. My best-known compositions are 'Doris,' 'Ambolena Snow,' 'Douglas Club Two-step,' 'Who Will Buy My Roses Red?' and the comic opera 'Rosita,' which has been playing for about twelve years, * * * and as the composer is anxious to be known, I have often asked my publishers to allow the reproduction of my compositions on graphophones and self-playing devices.