Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-10-15

Not long since We reeollect to have
heard u printer regretting that he
! had learned the business; "for. said
lie TO Affiend Gin substance) IL have
TO work from morning till sunset,
and frequently ill midnight. while
those engaged in other employments
may rest at tho close OF the day, or
sock such amusement rs best pleas.
os them. Besides, Bob, printers
Jour. printers / meanT,SY pery ~,
tie thought Of in society, There Is
John W; you know 4, biW,-s
wild, rattljpg sort of i fellow, a
salesman ,ih a, store he is always in.
vitod TO the parties, aud, frequently,
when / am straining my oyos BY
sandle.light over a bad manuscript,
he is,enjoying the company OF some
fair .damscL the nero sight Of whoE,
causes my heart to throb with the
quecrest of emotions. They never
think of me, Bob; and never wW,
while / continue sticking mini0R. II
I could only get to DO salesman, like
John W, Believe society would
receive me as no is received, and
I'm determined to try, at least. The
printing business is tho meanest 10
tho world land, judging from the
manner in which ,jours' are treated
in this city, one would conclude
every body thought So"
This is apparently tho sentiment,
wo regret to say, of very many fol-
lowers of the art of arts in the West
and te, would faiti believe that they
speak from the impilse or the rio.
mcnt that which they would be un-
willing TO utter at calmcr time as
tho honest sentiment Of their minds
and hearts.
Tho day of the birth of Printing
usherod in tho brightest era in tho
history OF the world, saying only
the. era era of Christianity, It iocmed
jip ip the darkness of tho Fifteenth
Century, with a, moral effect, COM
parable to the physical effect of the
phenomenon, Of tie suns suddenly
rising, ahd dispciling the shado%s
and darkness of the midnight Of
Nature. 1t gave sway to the wand
of Justice, strength to the arms of
Liberty, and n thousand tongues to
voice the precepts of the angel, Vir
the. 1t went and.in- hand with
Holiness-they grew together:-
When tho philosophical inventor, of
Mentz, was perfecting his movable
types, which, through the medium
Of the Press, were destined to con-
fer the Immortality of earth upon
the opinions of men, and transmit
an imperishable record of the Pres
ent to the Future, a little, barefoot
boy Wis blHSing from door to door
in the streets Of a Geriian city-a
boy, gifted with genius which was
to flash upon the world like the lev
in's light, and like the artillery of
Heaven" shake. the Papal Inquisi-
tion to its center, and drive the
startled Priesthood to the deep shad-
ows of the Roman Vatican How
little was it thought, in the begin
ing of the fifteenth century, that
GsfmaRy was rearing III Ref midst
two boys-one Of whom was to in
vent a system by which the written
utterances Of souls that felt the coh-
scioashsss Of freedom could exist,
independent of tho caprice of civil
tyranny, or the destructiveness of
religious intolerance!-the other of
whom was to 60 into convent, and
in the seclusion of a Dominican
clSsiter, perfect the sublime idea of
true ChFiStti!aPPity, which; wa was to
work the greatast of all human Re-
formationsl Verify, how, much are
we indebted to tho genius of FAUST
and LUTHER! Whom the Papal bull
consigned the writings of Luther to
the flames, through tho reproduc-
tive agency of the types Of; Of Faust
new books. sprang, PhaRi&-like,
from the ashes of the burned ones.
And from that day to this, the Press
has been shedding "the light of the
Gospel" into the darkened minds of
Hen.
THr psrss--liow calcuaablS its
power How fearful the tespohsi-
bility of him who wields that mighty
fulcrum, which, like the lever of Ar
chimcdes, can move the world!-
The Statesman may thrall senate
or parliament in the chain of ire
sistible eloquence, and command
tho admiration of principalities and
powers-tho Warrior, by the force
OF arms may overcome armies, and
doom to widowhood and ,orphhpage
thousands of his kind; But what are
the powers of the Statesman and the
Warrior compared TO the potential
voice of the Press, which in q single
day, may effecta moral revolution
bloodless triumph-the beneficial
effects Of which may be felt through
coming ceituriesa
fHt Pnrss-slass!-c.aini be used
as lie most pStsht agent for evil as
well as fSt good and q Just regard
for tt9t6 constrains TIE admission,
that It is frequently used for harm.
Indeed; a feformatloni almost as i'm
portanfit in it's ultimSte CONSEQUENCES
as that cofnrnshced in Germany by
the son of the humble miner Of
Mansfeldt, is desirable in the connex-
ions of the Press: That powerful
agent we regret TO see, is zoo often
used 10 vitiate and misshape the NOR
al as well ss literary taste Of the
people: To the Press we are taught
from our ehil1hoood TO look for IN
struction--to regard il q great
dispenser Of good. How many chill
dren and youth may we End who
would believe the most monstrous
story or the veriest sophistry, y
seen in a book, who would regard its
being IN print as conclusive sfideDcs