New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-20
DiE-ILLA AND PAP.

The Unions broadsdss leveled at The Tribune with
respect to the Mesa difference do not seem to answer
the ends they contemplate wherefore another battery
has been opened from the columns of The Republic
which was avowedly Wing paper while official pap
dispensed by Wing Heads ofDeparment at Washington
but the consideration having changed hands, The Republic
has changed also and displays the rewards of its face
virtue in liberal garniture Of Advertisements beginning
al Franklin Pierce" Department Of the Interior"
&c or signed John w Forney Clerk of the House"
That The Republic should be deyout believer in the
doctrine summed up in the formula, Z" Onr Country,
Fright or wrong isy very natural but it seems to have
pushed il point beyond its original acceptation and
made it imply that whoever has the dspensaon of Off
cial advertising and obwork, to be paid for from the
Treasury is necessarily right or if wrong nevertheless
EMIT ed to the hickandthn support ofthe metropolitan
press We commend this extension OF the patriotic
axiom to the regard Of its admirers universally
The Tribune reviews the opinions of The Union IN re-
card 10 this subject and cOnrOverts the arguments ad
duced in fay OF the American title upon two grounds
First upon the general proposition that no Washington
newspaper express an impartial opinion where the pup
lie urping is on one side and the puOc interest the
other The second that the right OF the United States to
the Mesa Valley has been reinqushed by the act OF its
commission confirming the boundary
Now our ground respecting the Washington Press
was this-that journalists in good part subsisted and
perhaps enriched by official patronage, which could and
vokd be taken away whenever said journalists course
should dspease those who hold the keys of the Treas
ury cannot be relied on to present fairly and candidy
such questions this respecting Mesila. IT, for ex-
ample. onr new rulers at Washington have resolved TO
repudiate the positions OF their predecessors and dis
svow the acts Of Commissioner Bartlett respecting the
Mexican Boundary, they viii of course have the sup
port therein of journals dependent on their favor as
are The Union and The Republic They may or they
may not state facts correctly and deduce therefrOm
lust conclusions but their ostensble opinions are en-
titled 10 no weight such, and justly esteemed
significant only indicating often oreshsdowing, the
purposes and designs of their official masters. Such is
our position: Let il be considered in the light Of
son aud notorious facts.
But let us consider The Republics retort
awe may remind The Tribune however, that paper
which ike itself is the Acknowledged organ Of sectional
PARTY far is popularity prOhs depend upon
The patronage Of the sectional sentiment OF which il is the
eaponen-iSble to the same mputatOns which It 50 grS
tuItously bestows upon others
This would be rather smart if it not wholly
false TIE Tribune is the organ of no party, much less
the acknowledged organ OF any party, sectional or
otherwise. Our popularity or profits do not and
never did depend the patronage OF ang party or
tonal sentiment but ability to make paper
which great many people OF al parties Ike to read
There are probably Democrats of the Pierce
stripe who take The Tribune than this day subscrib
ers TO any Democratic paper in the country As Anti
Slavery have always known that it great draw
back both on our popularity and profits" We have
had hundreds of letters within the last few months
saving in substance, ." send you twenty subscrib-
ers from this Office if it were not for your
Abohtionisn, l could have SIS easily made the lis.
sixty or seventy" We lost at least two thousand
subscribers irrevOcaby by printing Theodore Parkers
Sermon on Webster-expected to lose good many
when published t-snd think it cheap at the ask
ing price We repel more subscribers every year than
almost any other paper has and yet retain and recruit
very satisfactory number-rangng for years past
from Seventy Thousand 10 One Hundred Thousand
And the main Indictment to this generous patronage I'VE
let out the secret for the benefit Of The RepHbe and
other papers that to anguish for the want Of D is
very general belief that give readers better
pennyworth of the news Of the dsy-PoEtica Literary,
Foreign, Domestic &e-than they obtain elsewhere
In short The TIsne its position and its success
to its industry and enterprise in giving its readers fresh
and vivid dsguerreoype Of what the world is doing and