New-York tribune., 1886-01-19
And aspiration Great oppaq.c with three cheers for

mar from the Hub of tbs Unlycrsc" said the chtrpan
"but will now hear Colonei John Il. Fellows on Our
Entire Union" Colonel Fellows excused himself from
speaking the score OF severe cold. George s.
Sturgis sang song ami tho next toast, to
The Instructor" called for, the Rov. Dr. Paxton
rising TO reply:
This is about the hardest crowd to speak TO that
ever met" said lac. Who can stand up aud reel OF
quotations and patiudcs to lot Uf printers who arc
familiar with everything that has ever besn printed
This is tho celebration OF Mr. Benjamin Frankltn's
S''"S fe:wcitizon % poD' his Hs Penngyv"nIa hns
produced two great men BENJAMIN Franklin OF Mas
saohusctts. and Albert CiIiatin, OF switzerland.
tLaughier] My fellow citizen, Mr. Benjamin Franklin
difference II You leather in alena. forgotten
OF mankind tgrea iaushterl or boiling soap Ia Boston
topic, gentlemen. the day when the priests
held all learning to themselves IS past Poor Echars
Almanac and WebstoTs Spelling Book have spoiled all
that The monopoly Of learning Is past We preachers
clus step pown aud out to certain extent before yon
iand that arm of iron. Now all that the clergy
can do ia to kill off Of his fsvorte candidates
with the three r. Now the press has usurped
Sunday. The press is oven the pulpit You new
teachers have swept us aside This is the age OF the
opinions. The modern Old Man OF the Mountain the
shoulders OF man is the press. no man Is ever the
would be more ignorant for never reading
the5L but you Reading cannot
make any man wise-if tho gentleman wants to makemy
speech, / WIZ sit down"
emphasis while everybody stared in tho direction from
which several haifutercd remarks had come. There
got up aud said h. hoped all the members would extend
the % courtesy OF hang an5 sou. ,hof Of
/" Go r' Dr. Paxton said that he had finished, but
rupons ' we're very Annoying said he I'm solder.
and the fact Is, l lost my temper Then.
You may I'LL the world full OF books and without
action there's no wisdom am never afraid OF man
gested is be feared. Ideness the root of all
newspapers. II men didn't have much leisure In the
The rage for bigness is Killing us And
the newspapers are creating the rage We are all
work for US. The individual Is but pawn. We must
go back to the importance OF the individual II we want
to prescrye our liberties The talking man can 1sat your
press every time. IA voice =" No. sir Well; lets
Wod mSre S than any others Christ Gnes and
rates of Athens. never wrote word Inc
d'rTi.ons gT s''' that Sr"ught on the civiI war.
But. gentlemen OF the press. non rnle us now;
After Dr. Paxton's bristlng speech there COM
parayc ull. The chairman then called the poet and
critic +. C. stedman to answer for The Author" Mr.
stedman received with applause and svoko in sub
stance as follows:
Mr.. CnAIRM,N GTNrIrMgy AND FRIowsflSTER
PRINTERS Dr. Paxt0n's plea was " Hear me for my
cause and be silent that you may hear aud that reminds
words OF Mercury harsh after the songs OF Apollo
and 50 fear mine may be after the eioquence of our
table being fattened like sindbads comrades in the old
Arabian Nights tale, TO be offered up at last each one
in his turn laughterl Governor Rce's praise OF Bos
ton carried me back TO my "Reminiscences OF that
delightful solidarity which the pride OF the home of
them. 'Ah." said Mr. Os.o6d to once. las long as
1--we in Boston have some place to go To-, but
90 q" Ho lives In S.wYorE NOW aud takes it out in
dignity however, winch Franklin missed. II the gentle
VINO 80 pentifnly pnnctnates our remarks VIII not
rot "A Cabot or his father saltonstall.
cannot quite agree TO Dr. Paxton's dispraisc Of
csscd that their bsst reading Plutarchs Lives"
And FTanklns autobiography opens with tho sentence,
Authors have gotten up somewhat in the world In
Johnson time they used TO have TO hide behind screens
the dinners OF publishers but they have seats az
the table OF honor II they do write what my friend
books book. stamp themselves eras.
written by professional tluthors. Shakespeare wanted
his plays at the Globe To succeed and give MIN decent
competency = country gentloman. That all
Bunyan was too much wrapped up I'm his own
fear Mother Goose wrote her mclodious lays without
an expectation of literary fame. We professional
our share. Tho publisher takes 60 per Of the
poceeds gyes 80 TO the printer aud generously leaves
Usher ike Marx Twain The successful authors nova
writers OF Buntilng iSalls or the hollow testers we
pleased to call American humOrists. once thought
public. certainly moro despcaby treated than
By the canvassers OF "Roughing II" and Innoeents
bound volumes for - 30 apiece. Bn after ali the bad
PaIet aaa type We gSs our @ monsy worm; as ioTpa; s
century OF American literature. II will be Mark Twain.
Mr. Carlton was called ON To respond TO The Jour
neyman Printer" and said that no felt Ike the gentle
of African descent who always used be gin every
thing with a religious ceremony His master told him
lie going 10 fog him within inch VI his life.
Welk" he said, " ths will look the
Lori and he di, missed. The world more than it
thinks TO tho Jouruey printer II Is who gives
the orator his trumpet tongue. the author his
million pointed pen. On tho old farm in
Michigan where tho speaker lived In
his boyhood the newspaper was tho only ray Of light
which into that drcary life. And there was an
j0urueYman printer out thero under the snow To whom
he owed next TO God mother ana home all that ho held
dear earth.
THE Publisher" was responded 10 by IL. O. Hough-
ton aud about o'clock, after several songs and chO-
ruses, the meeting broke up.
The birthday OF Franklin was celebrated In BROOKLYN
last evening by the annual dinner the soce bearing
the Of the great printer. Speeches made by
Mayor Whitney bernard Pcter-, Aldrew Nc Lean.
Iolln Foord W. II Williams aud otasra -