The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-13

Franklin was put in Jail for a month and
forbidden to print or publish the 'Cou-
rant or any pamphlet or paper of the like
nature except 1t be first supervised" and
he was finally obliged to leave Boston.
ike his brother Benjamin, and journey to
more liberal minded community.
Prlnung had stormy beginning in
pennsylvania. One William Bradford had
been apprenticed in London to all init
mate friend of George Fox, and had es-
poused his principles. He was among the
very hrst emigrants that arrived in 1852,
before The first house was built in Phila-
delphla, and set up n press probably at
burlington, or perhaps at Chester. In
1909 he lived in Philadelphia. and became
embroiled Q592) in religious feud by
publishing a pamphlet written by George
Keith, a Scotch Quaker who having been
condt mned by members of his sect in
Philadelphia and forbidden to speak,
printed his defence. Bradford. the printer
of this pamphlet, was arrested, impris-
oned, and his form seized. After a lin
gerlng trial and Imprisonment, embittered
with all the prejudices of sectarianism,
the locked-up form was examined as evil
dence, and justice or juror, in the en-
deavor to lift it into a position where it
could be conveniently read, tipped 1t over,
and the unfortunate Bradford's case was
at length concluded by the mishap of pie
ing his form. After this affair Bradford
gladly accepted an invitation to settle and
ply his trade in New York.
samuel heimer, a printer, also gave
great offence to the Quakers. and the fol-
lowing announcement was made at a
meeting of that religious body: That,
although the said Samuel Keimer had
published parable, in which he had used
such stile and language, as that per-
haps he may be deemed, where he is not
known, to be one of the people called
Quakers: This may, therefore, certife,
that said Samuel Keimer is not one of
the said People" etc. Franklin, who was
journeyman of keimer's, has described
him as French convulsionist or Jansen
list.
Keimer was unsuccessful in PhiladeI-
phia and went 10 Barbados, where he
published the Barbados Gazette" Here
his ill-fortune continued to attend him,
according to his own published lamenta-
ton, as follows:
What pity it is that some modern Brayadoes,
Who dub themselves gentlemen here in Barba
dos,
Should, time after time, run in debt to their
Printer.
And not care to pay him
In Summer or winteri
In PENIS Wooden Country, type feels no dis
The Printer is rich, and is made their Post
Master;
His Father, Printer is paid for his work.
And waiiows in Plenty, Just now in New York.
In Slaryland's Province, as well as Virginia.
To Justice and Honour | aim. sirs, to win ye,
Their Printer. I'm sure, can make it appear,
Each Province allows two Hundred year.
Parks, Virginian printer who vas I'M
usually lucky in his profession for those
days, was envied by Keimer for possess
ing Swift's ideal income of two hundred
pounds year. This individual was shell
tered by Government patronage from
many Of the ordinary ills of the craft, and
yet even he fell into the ambush of
libel suit a man convicted of sheep
stealing at Williamsburg had retired into
less dangerous and prejudiced pursuits,
and became a prominent politician, being.
in fact, a member of the House Of Bur
gesses. For reviving a recollection of
this gentleman's peccadillo after forty
years of oblivion, the printer was brought
to trial; but as the proofs of the truth
of the charge WERE by special favor. re-
ceived as sufficient defence. the lucky
Parks triumphed, and the Virginia legis-
lator again retired into private life.
- Twere long to tell, and hard to trace
the history of the disasters that attended
the establishment of printing throughout
the vast extent IF this country. Suffice it
to say, that CIV ilization and the printing
press have gone hand in hand, and that
the amount of one may ever be measured
by the prosperity of the other.