North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-01

Printsrs and Newspspers.
At printers festival in Buffalo recent
w. an able address was delivered, from
which we make the following extracts
which contain volume OF truth:
PRINTERS.
Printers are unlike other classes of men.
Their vocation imparts to them an intelll.
gence that does not result from any other
business. Dealing with language exclu-
sively, in its combination of letters, words,
sentences, and paragraphs, they are con-
stantly brought into communion with
thoughts and their working, and thus in
sensibly become impued with the ideas of
those minds whose creations they help to
embody into those forms that give them to
the world. They literally get grammar at
their fingers ends while picking up the
types that form sentences that are gram
matical. Spelling comes as natural as
breathing, for they fall into correct orthog-
raphy from force of habit.
The characteristics of printers are not
so favorable to personal thrift as those of
other professions. They partake of the
nature of artists in some degree, and are
generally liberal to fault, thoughtless Of
the future and frequently inprovident for
the present-flush when in good situa-
ton, and dead broke on tramp They
may be said to be the working Bohemians
of the world of operatives.
PRINTERS DEVILS.
From wild, friendless boys in the streets.
are made what is called printers Devils -
next they become printers, and after that
sometimes editors, in which capacity they
not unfrequently make their mark in the
nation and in the world. DR.. Franklin
was a most eminent instance in the early
days of our country, and Thurlow Weed,
Horace Greeley, Simon Cameron, Vice
President Hamlin, General Dix, speaker
Colfax, Gideon Wells, Robert Bonner,
Prince Napoleon, Petroleum Vesuvius
Nasty and Artemus Ward, are striking
examples at the present time.
THE NEWSPAPERS
How few of the readers of our daily pa
pers, who hurricdly scan their contents,
see what the editor says of the general as
pect of affairs, run over the telegraphio
dispatches, and Congressional reports, look
a moment ut the collated items of news,
Just glance at the varied miscellany at
tractively presented for their perusal, and
then see what the local" has to report
Of current city intelligence-how few Of
these, repeat, have any proper idea of
the cost, the labor, and the talent which
has been required and employed to present
to them the daily luxury as well as neces-
sity-the newspaper.
Were the pains, sacrifices and expendi-
lures of editors and publishers properly
appreciated, there would be less disposition
to indulge in fault finding beceuse this
thing is not said exactly right, or that
thing not said at all. People and patrons
would be inclined to be perfectly contented
with what they now get from newspaper
men. if they only remembered how much
the less the public got, in that way, thirty
or fifty years ago; or if the could imagine
such thing as newspapers not being pub
lished hereafter Mt all. 1t only needs the
latter suppUsition to point out the conse-
quence that would inevitably follow, in
every branch of trade, manufactures, and
general business; which would indeed par
alize the whols country, and clog the wheels
of government itself.