For the good of whom?
For the good of the consumer,--of society,--of humanity.

Printers, having no longer any peculiar merit, receive no longer a peculiar remuneration.

As men,--as consumers,--they no doubt participate in the advantages which the invention confers upon the community; but that is all.

As printers, as producers, they are placed upon the ordinary footing of all other producers.

Society pays them for their labor, and not for the usefulness of the invention.
_That_ has become a gratuitous benefit, a common heritage to mankind.
What has been said of printing can be extended to every agent for the advancement of labor; from the nail and the mallet, up to the locomotive and the electric telegraph.