Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-15

SION and grief had driven into toe
Church, was journeying from The Eter.
nal City to the place Of his appointed
spiritual labors. He met the men Of
type wayfaring on to home with their
rude printing press in . cart drawn By
one tired animsi.
The good priests superior knovledRe
enabled him TO render some tsidinR ser
vice to the tired men and vearisd brute.
besides assisting shsm With q dole Of
money, plsosd in his hsnds for ne in
charity. Be it known that - Friaf
Clement the printing press VA nys-
terry, not only hitherto unseen, bat 10
no sense understood. When all vas
done and the trio we're about TO part.
the novelist SAYS: "ClsWsnt WAS then
for bidding them fsrssell. but ths hon
est fellows implored him to wait little.
they had no silver or gold, but thsy had
something they could give their bsne-
factor. They took ths press out Of the
cart, and while Clement fed the mule,
they hustled about, nov on the white
hot road, nov in the deep cool shade,
now half in and half out, and presently
printed qosrto sheet Of eigh: pages,
which was already ct up. They had
not type enough 10 print two sheets at .
time. When, after the slower p,elimi-
naries, the printed sheet was pulled, all
in q moment, Clement vas amazed in
tnrn.
What. are all these words really fast
upon the psper!" said he. lis it YER
lily certain they viii not 90 - swiftly a.
they came? And you took me for . ma
Rician. IT'S 'Ang'lsfiSs de e.ritate Del
Ny sons, you carry here the very wings
Of knowledge. u, never abuse this
great craft Print no i'll books. They
would fly abroad countless as locusts,
and lay waste mons souls"
1.-The workmen said they would sooner
put their hands under the screw than 20
abuse their goOdly craft"
We know not how il has been With
our old Kamage press. Let Us hope
that not ono Of the "Sybillins leaves Of
thought" which it has scattered BY the
tens Of thousands from the Colorado OF
the West to the Straits OF Fuca has ever
fallen under FFiar Clements ban.
Alas for 1t not all Of the countless
hosts Of tho disciples which have fol-
lowed in the footsteps Of Pannartz and
Swynsheim, have had their conscien-
tiousness, their lofty sense Of honor.
their high and noble standard of re-
possibility. II such had besn tho case
what anguish and what shame, what
cline, what misery. what broken hearts
and rscked aud tortured brains would
have been spared the world!
We have lid that our old Ralnaas
press il silent monitor and = suggest
i've teacher. Charles Reade in closing
the work from which 70 have already
quoted, speaking Of the written words
Of the great Eras nus, says, "Ths
words of genius 10 high and mighty
as his were not born to die; their imme-
date work upon mankind fulfilled, they
may seem to lie torpid; but at each fresh
shower Of intelligence time pours upon
their students, they prove their immor-
tai race; they revive; they spring from
the dust Of great libraries: they bud,
they flower, they fruit. they SEED from
generation to generation and from age
to age"
Ii is the province Of the press to keep
alive the spoken thought. tho written
word. These may not be az eloquent as
the utteranoes Of Erasmus, hut are des-
tined to live as long, it may be. in the
dust Of some obscure library, until they
shall revive and become teachers for
good or i'll. 1t would be we'll, indeed, il,
until time shall be no more, the brain
that directs the workings Of The press
should heed 70 the very letter the adno-
milton Of Friar Clement and print NO
i'll books"
Our old Ramaee preas has the place
Of honor and will have it while the
Posi- INTErLlaENcRR sndures. We be-
lieve its work In IA clean and blameleas
~ it has been faithful. So may, 20
shall. the work Of its SUCCESSORS to.