The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-19
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at printers festival held 10 BufEalo'
recently, an able address was delivered
from which We make the following exc
tracts which contain volume of truth:
Printers are unlike other classes oe
men. Their vocation imparts to them
an intelligence that does not result from
any other business. Dealing with Lam
euage exclusively, in its combustion Of
LETTERS words, sentences and paragraphs
they are constantly brought into commnn-
ION with thoughts and their working, snd
mus inseusibly become imbued with tbs
IDEAS OF those minds whose creations thew
help to embody into those forms that give
them 10 the world. They literalv get
grammar at their fingers ends while pick
ing up the types that form sentences that
are grammatical. Spelling comes 70
them as natural as breathing, for thsv
fall into correct photography from forcs
Of habit.
The characteristics of printers are not
so favorable TO psrsonsl thrift as those of
| other professions. They partsks of the
nature of artists in some degree, aud are
generally liberal TO fault, thoughtless of
Tue future and frequently improvidsnt for
the present-hush when 10 good situa-
tiOn, aud dead broke on tramp. They
may be said to be the working Bohemisns
of The world of operatives.
From wild friendless boys in the streets
are made what are called Printers Dew
lis; next they become printers, and after
that sometimes editors, in which cap &C.
ity they got unfrequently make'their mark
in the nation and in the world. Dr..
Fiapklin was a most eminent instance in
the early days of our country, and Thur
low Weed, Horace Greeley, Simon Cam
err n, Vice President Hamliu, Gen. Dix,
Speaker CJllax, Gideon Weles. Robert
Bonner, Prince Napoleon, Petroleum
Vesuvius Nasty and Artemus Ward, are
striking examples at the present Tins.
How few of the readers of our daily
papers, who hurTiedly scan their contents,
see what the editor says of the general
aspect OF affairs, run over the telegraph
ic dispatches, and Congressional reports,
look moment at the colated i,eme of
news, just glance atthe varied miscellany
attracuvely presented for their psrusal,
and then see what the "local" has to re-
port of currant city intelligence-how
few of these, repeat, have any proper
idea of the cost, the labor, and the talent
which has been requ ired aud employed
10 present to them the daily luxury az
well as necessity-of the newspaper.
Were the pains, sacrifices and expend-
itnres of editors and publishers properly
appreciated there would be much less
disposition to indulge in fault finding be-
cause this thing is not said exactly right
or that thing is not said at all. People
and patrons would bs inclined TO be per-
fectly conterted with W hat they now get
from the newspaper men, if they only
remember how much less the public got,
in that way, thirty or fifty years ago; or
if they could imagine. such thing a.
newspapers not being published hereafter
at all. It only needs the latter supposi-
ton to point out the consequences that
would inevitably follow, in every branch
of trade, manufactures, and general BUSH
ness; which would indeed paraIyEs the
whole interests of the country, and clog
the wheels Of government ITSELF