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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER VI
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There is nothing that we will not do to assist and serve those whom we have discharged.

They themselves can seethe greater rapidity and precision with which the paper is printed.
What right have they to make us print it slower and worse for their supposed benefit?
A little reflection, indeed, would show them that it is neither in their power nor in ours to stop a discovery now made, if it is beneficial to mankind; or to force it down if it is useless.

They had better, therefore, acquiesce in a result which they cannot alter; more especially as there will still be employment enough for the old race of pressmen, before the new method obtains general use, and no new ones need be brought up to the business; but we caution them seriously against involving themselves and their families in ruin, by becoming amenable to the laws of their country.

It has always been matter of great satisfaction to us to reflect, that we encountered and crushed one conspiracy; and we should be sorry to find our work half done.
"It is proper to undeceive the world in one particular; that is, as to the number of men discharged.

We in fact employ only eight fewer workmen than formerly; whereas more than three times that number have been employed for a year and a half in building the machine." On the 8th of December following, Mr.Koenig addressed an advertisement "To the Public" in the columns of The Times, giving an account of the origin and progress of his invention.


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