Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-20
FRANKLIN FESTIVAL,
ssss 3 GIVEN BIZ .sa.srqasl iasisi-
COLUMBUS TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
NJ u M n ETA q,
ss.s IN HONOR OF ~.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN


q WAGNER,s DINING HALL, {
sasar4ay Evsnlnx, January 1s.h, iss
sT The annual banquet Of the Columbt
Typographical Union, in honor of the ar
,niversary of the birth of Benjan:in Frank
elin, took place at Wagner's. Dining Ha
last evening. The assemblage was quit
large, and Included nearly all of the mem
bers Of. the Press, as well as nearly all III
printers in the city. and q number of dis
tinguished invited guests. The supper wa
prepared in Wagner's best style. as the bill
OF fare will Indicate There was plenty
and to spare, for more guests than wer
present, aud the preparation for the fra
ternai reunion was all that could be de
sired. - ss -.s.,',' ..--., ,'i Z Z
8 The following were the officers of tn
evening:
% President Judge w. B. Thrall. rosi
r Tice Presidents John Miller, D. G. Mitch
iell, G. r. Riley, D. Il. Mooney, S. Z
. Rscsptiou .committse-T Thos. w Flood, Joe
C. Coleman, Jas. G. Williams. .es.a5 Il
q The following is the Bill Of Fare: ss %
&, Oyster soup. ase 1 80 --1
Fish-Boifed cod fish. fried black bass.
Game-Roast wild turkey, roast venison
venison steak with jelly ),quafl plain, quai
ON toast prairie chicken, plain rabbits
broiled, squirrel, broiled, rabbit stewed, ole
sty1e. zak .,
1Oysters-Fried oysters raraw Roysters
scalloped oysters, bfoiled oysters.
p Cold dDishes--Roasttu turkey. roast chicken
sugar-cured ham, roast beef, buffalo
tongues, sheep ton que, beef tongue, pigs
feet, soused, pressed beet, tripe.
= Relishes-Lobsters salad. chicken. salad
cranberry sauce, currant jelly, Englisf
mustard, green tea, cucumber pickles
celery. black tea cold slaw, Worcestershire
sauce, coffee. .......-----.--.--...--i
8 After ample justice had been done to thu
repast, Judge Thrall called the. company
to order, and announced the regular toasti
as follows : isi ~.
Il Tho Day We Celebrate --------..- =. -
e. B. sEshelman, of the STATESMAN, re-
sponded substantially as follows
- Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: There
reems q misarrangenlent in. the tOasts
The toast dedicated to the Printers Devil
ts last on the list, whereas it properly
should be first. In 4 printing office the
Devil preeedes the Journeyman, and the
Journeyman precedes the Editor, usually,
p Once more we meet in annual COM
memoration lof the nativity of Benjamin
Franklin. 1t is well. Even were there
nothing note worthy in the life aud char
acter Of franklin, there is an eminent fit
ness in the assembling of Printers around
the festive board at least once year. A
kindlier feeling is thus begOtten.- and a
pride of profession fostered which is emil
nently praiseworthy. AithOu gh there are
throughout the world distress and wrongs,
and although 'man's inhumanity to man.
vet makes countless 1" thousands mOurD,"
by reason OF the art you cultivate. the
world is better, and, consequently, happier
than it otherwise would be- ..,.' s-.,r
g 1t is only two hundred and five years
since poor john Gwyn. for. printing piece
eriticising the British Governmenr,p in
which occurred this language ;sIf the
magistrates pervert Judgment. the people
are bound by the law of God, to execute
Judgment without them, and upon Them -
was tried in the Old Bailey, Chief Justice
guilty; and he was compelled to atone for
this offense by being drawn to the place OF
execution upon hurdle, where he was
hanged by the neck, and, while yet alive,
was cut down, disemboweied, his entrails
burnt before his eyes, his head cut of, and
his head and limbs set up over the gates OF
the city. For sixty years after this event.
1t was common circumstance In England
70 crop the ears of Printers and Editors, to
put them in the stocks and pillory, to fog
them at. the carts tail, to hang them with
malefactors at Tyburn. Since that, time
how great the progress. Editors criticize
now the official conduct of public officers
with impunity and severity-with greater
severity than that which caused the
horrible execution of sJohns rGwyn a
little over two hundred years ago. BY
BENJAMIN Franklin did much to lay the
foundation for the usefulness OF the Press
The Press improves in tone and character
year BY year, and consequently in inf1u-
ence. There are: no more 5hangings1and
quarterings of Editors and Printers. The
punishmentth that is now inflicted upon them
II they offend the public, is the withdrawal
It Is much more desirable than to be hung
and quartered. ae si.age. : =, ir-et, ~.
But we-you and I-haye cause to be
prond of franklin. He was the des endant
Of race of blacksmiths, who for three
hundred years followed that vocation in
Ecton, sixty miles from London. His
father wss originally dyer; but the busi-
Boston, he turned his attention to the boil
Ing of soap and the making of candles. = At
the age Of ten years Ben's schoOldays ter
minated. Before this he had acquired a
fondness for reading, and every frag gment
Of tim re could call his own he devoted to
thes' are IL reading of Standard authors
and In efforts to render. his style
OF co,.. position what it should be. HI
lived ali his days frugally and temper
ately, which gave him clear head and 8
long life and an enviable renown. From
Devil to Editor he worked successfully up
BY experience he knew what 1t was to be
aftramping jour st'Out of sorts" The in.
gratitude of politicians, as do all printers
and editors of political papers, he expert.
enced. Without wealth-without infiuen'
tial friends-without the advantages of The
education so common in. our day-he at
tained to q lofty eminence as Printer, a;
Editor, as Philosopher and as Statesman
6oacouspicuous had become his fame, thai
the most beautiful of women and the mos
learned of men at the Partisan Court were
proud to do him honor. And here in hi
native United States, he stood high in thu
affections of bis countrymen. By a similal
course of life, it is within the power of ths
humblest Printers Devil to attain to emf
nence and honor. ...s.... =. ----.-----
Often did Franklin, when far advanced il
years, express the wish that one hundred
years hence he could be permitted to re
visit the earth. He was impressed will
the belief that great progress would in tina
time have been, made In everything. Oh
the seventeenth of April it will be bu
seventy-eight years since he died. Wer
be permitted to visit US even now what
change he would recognize. Instead of i
requiring thirteen months for the arriva
Of foreign news at Boston, as it did in tn
days Of his Devilship, it is now receive.
daily. instead of the old clumsey pres
that was worked with the greatest dill
rt,Ifv ri ar off faxxy prpSSiOna Dn
hour, he would behold the iten-cylinde
press throwing of its from twenty to thirt
thousand impressions per hour. He woul
see that the electricity that he had lure,
from the thunder cloud, and which he la,
made passively administer to his amuse
ment, has now become common carrie
Of all mannero intelligence almost out