p. 112 | The Printer's Estate

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1873

The Printer's Estate.

UNDER this heading some one writes the following paragraphs, who evidently knows how it is:—

The printer’s dollars—where are they? A dollar here, and a dollar there, scattered over numerous small towns all over the country, miles and miles apart—how shall they be gathered together? The paper-maker, the building owner, the journeyman compositor, the grocer, the tailor, and his assistants to him in carrying on his business, have their demands, hardly ever so small as a single dollar. But the mites from here and there must be diligently gathered and patiently hoarded, or the wherewith to discharge the liabilities will never become sufficiently bulky. We imagine the printer will have to get up an address to those widely scattered dollars, something like the following:—

“Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and all manner of fractions into which you are divided, collect yourselves, and come home! Ye are wanted! Combinations of all sorts of men that help the printer to become a proprietor, gather such force and demand with such good reasons your appearance at his counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease them. Collect yourselves, for valuable as you are in the aggregate, single, you will never pay the cost of gathering. Come in here, in single file, that the printer may form you into a battalion and send you forth again, to battle for him and vindicate his credit.”

Reader, are you sure you haven't a couple of the printer's dollars about you?