Year: 1871

Life in Printing Office. ,L,.


Few people are aware Of. the inside


workings of printing office, nor of the


annoyances attendant upon the publica-
ton of newspaper. 1t is impossible TO


form anything like a correct idea of the
number of men there is in this and


every community who make it a point
about every time they meet you % tell
of some important fact that should be
noticed in the paper pro bono loubtico.


Generally, however 1t turns out that
the item referred to IL one which the in
formant has an Ak to grind, and the
newspaper is to be the free horse on


which he expects to ride into public
favor and confidence. There are some


men who think because they take the
Republican, we are under obligations TO
puff them aud their business. It is q
prevalent through mistaken idea that
So for subscription will make man a
germ nant stakeholder in the establish.
ment. The news paper business is a
very exacting Oh all connected with it,
and the pay was comparatively small.
The proprietors risk large amount of
money for small profits, and the editors
and printers work harder and cheaper
than the same number Of men Of any
other profession requiring the given
amount Of Intelligence and training.
The life has its charu,s and its pleasant
associations, scarcely known by the out.
side work but it has its earnest work
and hours Of exhaustion, which, like
wise, are not known to those who think
the business all fun. The idea that
newspaperdom is the charmed circle
where the favored members live life OF
ease, free from care, is a mistaken one.
Business is business, and the journal
that succeeds is the one that is run Oh a
square business footing, with the same
system as a banking house. Exchange.


In the report of the Treasury Depart
ment-which is the only one of the re
ports containing much that is of special
interest-Mr. Boutwell, makes a very
striking exhibit as to the public debt
indeed, we believe, an exhibit unparal-
leled in financial history, and nothing
could we'll be clearer as regards arrange
ment.' The debt has been diminished
by S2T, 2ll ,s92 since March l, 1863, with
a corresponding annual reduction in the
interest charge of SIG, ,74l, 1926. Besides
the statement with regard to the condi-
tion Of the debt, the only things Mr..
Boutwell, has to say which the public
will greatly care to read are his explana-
tions with regard to the issue of the new
loan to the Syndicate, and his grand
plan for the restoration Of American
shipping. He gives the history of the
new loan now all taken), with which
our readers are already familiar, and
then goes OH to confess once more in the
! simplest way his violation Of the law in
letting the Syndicate have the bonds
three months before they paid for them
but excuses himself by the reflection
that this was the only mode in which
the loan could be disposed of, and that


if they had paid for the bonds when
they got them, the money would have
lain idle. This II doubtless all true, but
beside the question. The objection to
his violating the law affects not him in
particular or this loan in particular, bu,
all Secretaries and other officers and all


loans. He recommends, and with good
reason, an increase in the commission
to be a flowed in disposing of the foul
and half per cent. loan, when it il
brought on the market. He says that
nothing can be done for one half pc


cent, which is true; but he ought tc
have known and said this in April last
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