New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-28

,idra,iops of personal interest," as BY regard for aes
prosperity the general welfare Of the puohc at lsrge
That the Editor OF The Tribune is "a water
of books is already admitted; and he insists TINT
il shall he fully taken into the account Huclhle
as arc his preensions to authorship, he feels that
he is Individually wronged a. well nationally dis
honored bv the denial of international Copyright.
AS to any Zinc Mining Company, he is no stock
holder in any. but member Of his family as; AMI
though he cannot remember that he has wnitea
line in favor of Zinc paints since such owner
ship existed yet, at least article of the chi~-
acter referred to has appeared cditoraliy IN TIE
Tribune meantime, and he insists that 1t ~ bat
right and fair that the public should know that he
feels personal interest in the substitution OF Lnc
for White Lead in painting, and that one near TO
him will probably derive personal advantage there
from. He may at some time hereafter see IL to
write on this subject and he greatly prefers that
the whole truth should be KNOWN so as to be prop
erly weighed by the public in considering has tes-
timony.
The Editor of The Tribune is personally a
stakeholder in his former partner, Gen. WinI hes
ters, California Mining Company, having paid his
money for every share he holds exactly like any
other stakeholder, and having never had at any
time farthing's interest in the sale of its stock,
and having at no time commended it to public ta-
vor. He has also been induced by considerations
of long-standing friendship to take an interest
with another old associate John A. Collins) in a
California Mining enterprise-said interest being
proclaimed in these columns, and not one word
said about the Mines as rich or inviting unless in
an advertisement. What parity there is between
an open, public, ayowed interest in u business en-
terprise and the case to which it is sought TO be
assimiated, we do not perceive.
Six years ago. the Editor of The Tribune was
chosen by some miners on Lake Superior twho
knew him only through his paper Directorin a
Copper-M Mining Company and he endeavored to
fulfill the trust thus confded to him until, some
three years ago, il was transferred to Others
While Director, he twice visited the mine, and
still retains small interest therein. Now our
files are at the service of The Times; and, to
save trouble, he will find our letters from Lake
Superior in the issues of July, lSi7, and Septem-
Der, 1913, or thereabouts and If lone word of puff
ing or any thing else calculated to promote the
sale or increase the value of the stock" of that
mine or any mine with which he was connected
on Lake Superior, can be found therein, he chal
lenges its publication. The Times has made
direct charge here, which we insist on its substan
tatng or retracting Let it not dodge away to
something else, but meet the issue it has raised by
fair and full extracts from the letters and edto-
rails to which it has referred, Let us have no
more inuendoes and suggestions, but simple,
straightforward evidence or retraction
One word, now, to our readers, which must
suffice for all time. We do not comprehend tho
dclcacy which should constrain an Editor to re-
sign his position because he has been induced to
take an interest in some other business we cannot
believe that any one was ever p" incited" by any
thing in our Editorials to buy Stocks in Mining or
any other Companies with hope of reaping golden
gains. We did request Gen. Winchester as we
have requested other friends from California, to
give us his ideas of that country and its Mining
capacities, for the benefit of our readers, writing
over his own name, and with perfect knowledge
on all hands of his attitude and relations. We
have not supposed Unnecessary, and shall not here
after sec fit to repeat with every letter of this
sort You must make allowance for this mans
partialty OF Pcrsonai h'eicS1 III '"0 hA''o'
whereof he speaks we would rather presume
that they who read The Tribune have eyes and
common sense. But, should any paragraph ever
slip into our non-Advertising columns, urging an
investment in this or that Mining enterprise, UNI
derstand now and evemore that we do not advise
any such investment and would have stricken out
the sentence if we had seen it and considered its
nurport We try to furnish information on all
topics within the scope of our journal but to tell
men (save through Advertisements) in what IN
vestments they may make money fastest, is no
part of.our undertaking and, if anything of that
nature shall at any time creep into our columns,
we entreat our readers to believe that IL is die
tated by considerations of private interest-our
own, if they can perceive no other--and treat it
accordingly.