Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-20
development and maintenance that are
being tried or established, the outlook
for both states is very encouraging.

THURSDAY witnessed the dedication of
the Childs-D rexel home, for aged and
infirm printers. Seven years ago, Geo.
w. Childs and A. j. Drexel presented
the International Typographical union
with the sum of $4,000, to start. a fund
for the building of such a home. To
this sum the union has added, from year
to year, until it had reached the sum of
$150,000, the home has been builded and
dedicated.
Senator Jacob H.. Gallinger delivered
the dedicatory Grafton. His address was
eloquent, dealing with all those questions
of interest to those, by whose enterprise
and diligence the home was founded.
Beginning, he SAID:
There must be in printers ink an inspir-
alton to generosity and eve %prodigality,
so few of the craft ever becomes rich.
That fellOW-feeling that makes all the
world akin glows ever in the heart of the
printer, opening his purse to the needy and
his soul to the suffering. His couch is
freely shared with a fellow craftsman, his
case is at the service of the wan
derer, and his last ration is fairly divided
with the one who knows not where to get
his daily bread. Nor is his bounty or his
charity circumscribed by guild lines. Who
is so hopitable everywhere as a printer :?
Who so quickly touched by The appeal of
the afflicted? Thrift may not be one of
his virtues. but n~iggardliness is not one of
his failings. His it is to shale generously
with others. He has no isolated pleasures.
His present is never burdened with the
gloom of tomorrow. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" is the creed tina
too often scartly clothes and feeds him and
his family. Yet the world is the better for
his coming. He has scattered smiles Of
gladness along its pathway. He has H.
lumined its night. He has brushed away
the tears from some faces even if they have
stolen silently down his own. He has
lifted here and there a cloud, that sunshine
might penetrate a saddened heart. And
when at eventide we measure his life's
work, and set off against his failings his
many kindly acts, W. find that he has
one.
The printers case is the training school
of some of the best thinkers of the age.
The range OF inquiry melted by it is bound
less. 1t embraces all subjects. 1t is fet-
tered by no restrictions. The contest is
still going on between the advocates of a
prescribed course Of study in our colleges
SAAu Aio 1kSoL SANSIlSo UuOlC ouU
there is no controversy over the curriculum
of the printing office. Its English is the
best. 1t must be correct; it is often CLASH
cal. 1t may be pOetical: it is always in
structive. There is nc flight of fancy, no
discovery OF science, no speculation OF
philosophy, nc plea for liberty, no prayer
for light, but finds in the printing office its
goal. The student at the case feeds his
Imagination, disciplines his mind, broadens
his thought and strengthens his intellect.
He spoke of those who would, at differ
ent times, be inmates of the home: of the
comforts it would afford TO the aged and
infirm disciples OF the 'art preventative"
and, in closing, spoke eloquently of the
principles and good work to which it was
dedicated:
And as row our work is done, as we sep
arate to our homes and to the individual
duties and cares of life, the only added
thought we can formulate into words is
the earnest hope and belief that those who
partake of the hospitalities and comforts
forget that they can only act
manhood and noblest endeavor, by lives
that will be the best possible argument
that this great benevOlence was wisely
conceived and carried to its contamination
by men who knew the virtues of the craft,
and who have a broad and correct compre-
hension of the character and attributes of
those whose life work it is to put in cold
type the living thoughts and aspiratic ms of
humanity. May heavens choicest bless
ings rest upon its founders, its officers and
its inmates, and may this home, so aus
piciously opened today, take deservedly
high rank among the great eleemosynary
institutions OF this great nation.