Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-08
GRAPH UNION.
The Picnic and Festival at games's
Park To-Day.

The Memphis Typographical Union
is one Of the first of the original trades.
unions Of the United States, and mum.
bers in its ranks to-day many of the
most worthy gentlemen of the craft,
many who are among the best citizens
of Memphis, since they are hard, perse.
vering labOrers-sOber, ~peaceable, Oh.
serving the laws, and Increasing the
wealth of the community by fruitful
toll. Not a few Of them have national
regulations as printers, regulations OBJ
tanned by the display of unusual taste
and discrimination in the preparation
and production of work that compares
favorably with that Of their brethren Of
more favored localities. AS a body,
OUR PRINTERS UNION
compares in all respects favorably with
the best elsewhere, and looking back
through the years that have passed
since it, organization, we can remem-
Der many who We're once members of il
who now are foremost in other walks OF
life. Perhaps it is not saying too much
that no other profession OF calling in the
United States has given to tue several
States and to the Republic at large so
many eminent jurists, statesmen and
divines a. the topographic. And from
its nature il is eminently the one over
all Others that leads in the world of
thought, in the control and management
Of the great newspapers that afford the
freest and best, the most liberal and the
most reliable expression upon all ques-
tons affecting the human race. The
PROOFS
Of this are 10 be found distributed every
where throughout the Union; and to-
day the most popular ticket for the
Presidency and Nice-Presidency of the
Union is that on which is to be found
the name of two editors, the first of
them a practical printer and the first
President of the first Typographical
Union ever established in New York.
The Memphis Typographical Union is
worthy Of Greeley and GratZ Brown,
worthy professionship with these and
many other gentleman who have made
of the composing room and job office
the ladder by which they have elevated
themselves worthy and well in popular
esteem and favor. We might enume-
rate a long list, commencing with
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
among the most IllustriOus of savants
and printers, but we have not the space.
We could tell of princes, kings and
emperors who have not disdained to
learn the "gentle craft of letters, the
light that has set the world atiame.
Earl StanhOpe, a nObleman, who in his
day stood well with the scientific and
literary men of England, made it his
study and-became one of its most lucid
expositors. Nearly all the great capitals
of Europe have their special story of a
long line of craftsmen who, from Gut
tenberg and Faust, have sustained the
proud pre-eminence of the profession
and increased its renown. The march Of
improvement and personal freedom
dates from the discovery and
ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINTING,
and here in the United States it is justly
regarded the guardian of all that men
prize in government and liberty. Errors
it sometimes falls into, and sometimes
its great power is abused, but these are
the exceptions to "A rule Of usefulness
that is generally recognized. 1t is the
representatives of this profession, SC IL
lustrious through a long line of descent,
that viii to-day enjoy themselves with
their wives, mothers and sweetheaTts
at this most enjoyable of all the modes
that this pleasant month of May
The strictest order and deco
rum will be observed by police en-
for that purpose; but higher and
better than these, the honor of the craft
is a guarantee that it will be in all re-
spects a highly respectable affair. A
long list of invited guests will be pres
ent, embracing many Of our civic digni-
all of whom may well feel hon
ored by being embraced, even for a day,
in the ranks of the Printers Union Of
We hope the skies will be
prOpitious, that the gentlest breeze
will prevail to cool the fevered heat of
midday. and that every element that
minister to its success will make
this first picnic Of the printers Of Mem
a grand success.