Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-08
THE PRINTERS APPRENTICE.
HIS AMBITIOUS DRRAhs OF THE RuTURE-A
cRRIRIHG PROGRAMME or A BUSY LIFE.

There is young lad in the APrKAL office
who has jast began to learn the art preserva-
tive. He is . bright, Intelligent boy and am-
bilious to work. He no doubt maps ont
career in his minds eye and looks forward to
the time when he will have a printing office OF
his own, full of whirlng machinery and con
troll big newspaper which will direct public
opinion, perhaps for nation. ALI boys start
in life with these ambitious dreams, and it is
we'll they should, otherwise their courage
would fail them at the beginning. The
chances Of printers apprentice reaching
top place in the profession are about one In a
! hundred. Yet this lad in question may pos
sibly be one that will reach the goal. He has
started out on the same road as Horace
| Greedy did and may pass Just as many mile
stones. As rule the life of = printer and
newspaper mainland the professions are fire.
ouently combined IN one person-Is anything
but a pleasant one. This boy will. before he
dies, start half dozen newspapers and see
them pass into other hands Just As they are
on the eve Of obtaining permanent footing
His life will be a series of hard struggles and
hard knocks. If he runs 8 newspaper he will
fad the community full of sngrateful aud
malicious people who are anxious to see him
fail because he proposes to run his business
his way instead of theirs. He will 6nd plenty
of advisers and critics, but few helpers. He
will have political eliques and combinations to
fight fre IN one years end to another and men
who profess to be serving him will be found
in the ranks of his enemies. Bat these
trifins circumstances must not discourage
him. He has jumped into the arena where he
must fight with the rest, and as long as he
can keep his legs he must wage the battle.
The lane will turn some day and he will be
all right. While his enemies are working
against him from without, he will be made
the victim of 3 thousand annoying mishaps
from within. His press will break inst when
he needs it most, his boiler will burst, his
forms will be pied, his ink will freeze, his
roof will leak and he will be burned oas one
Summer and flooded out the next Winter. |
He will be libeled, sued, DETAINED, prosecuted,
thrashed and shot at from time to time. In |
return for these visissitudss Of fortune he will |
be expected to assist charitable associations,
give free printing to benefits, bolster up bad
actors, write feeling obituaries about disrep-
utabls people out Of consideration for the
feelings of their relatives, help along all new
schemes (gratis) endorse thieves and scoun-
arels for political positions, throw up the
editorial hat for all nominations, act as a
,sullion and dishwasher in the party kitchen,
discount Fifty per cent. on all political adver-
'ising and job printing after the campaign,
md in the midst of these phianthropie abors
Ice himself daily alluded 20 As ''sur," liar,
6 thief" " hirsling," scAlawag," " dead
beat" and "ignorsnus. Yet after all when
man settles down to this sort of life and
,ets used to it there is charm in its activity,
ush and excitement, which the plodders along
ifs's highway can never appreciate. man
Who has never passed throug h such = deal
eally don't know what life, liberty and the
pursuit. of happiness is.