Conclusion.—

If the foregoing, or an equivalent, be adopted, it will within a year check the boy-labor business in the printing profession, as lads and their friends will naturally pause before entering non-Society offices, and the demand in the fair offices is always limited. The educational test will be a bar-sinister to the rag, tag, and bobtail; the status of all printers will be at once raised, and in a few years enormously increased. The sympathies of all the leading Masters will undoubtedly be with the Society, as by the proposed scheme their own interests will be materially conserved. Thus the Society will become a power in the land not to be despised, funds for the various laudable objects of the institution will be abundant, and men will be proud of their membership.

Free discussion of these suggestions is invited.