Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-06-18
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Volume Eighteen

With this number, our paper enters upon the
eighteenth year of its existence. In entering up.
ona new volume it may not be amiss to say
few words to our subscribers about matters ant
things in general, connected with the subject IN
which we are mutually interested We
have striyen to make the Tribune s. telegraph
welcome as well as useful vistant to the shoT
of the mechanic, the counter of the merchant
and family circle, and if we have done but hal
as well as we have endeavored and wished to
there should be but little cause for complaint
IL has been our first aim TO give TO cur columns
a local interest to make it general directory Of
the business, progress and improvement of our
city and county. Inthis we think we have moi
altogether failed. No enterprise that promised
to advance our home interests, or increase tho
prosperity of our citizens-has been suffered tc
langush for want Of the encouragement and
Sympathy Of the press. In this respect we shall
endeayor to improve in the future.
| 1t is unnecessary to revert to the political po-
sition of the Tribune & Telegraph, as it will al
ways be where it has been, the earnest and I'M
compromising advocate of Free Principles, Free
| Soil, and Free Labor We are enlisted for life
in the warfare against Slavery ard opposition
of every kind-against prescription of every
| species, whether on account of religion birth
place or color. And in the conflict we wage we
wish it to be always borne i'll mind that it is the
principles we war against, and not men. nor
parties, further than they are respectively den
tilted with those principles. We have no per-
soma! ends or aims to accomplish, nor political
aspirations or expectations to subserve,- other
than 20 worthiy fill our place i'll the ranks of the
great army of Freedom, and do the most effec-
tive service in that position, and to make an hon
orable livelihood by the sweat of our brow, in
the profession we have chosen.
In review of the past and a forward look to
the future, we find that, although there arc many
of our subscribers who have laid us under obi
cations by their promp.ness in paying the prn-
ter, there are still many who are yet sadly in ar
rears. To all such, we will suggest that now is
good time to pay up back arrearages and a
year III lvance. We find that there is due us
now for subscriptions at present over : 1900, that
we are much i'll need Of. and which we trust will
soon be paid We shall within the next two
weeks call upon all our subscribers in this sec
ton of the country, and we hope every one who
has had our paper for one, two or three years
without paying for it, will be prepared to meet
the small demand when called upon, or bring OF
send it it in without beng called upon. Labor,
living, paper and every kind of stock used by
printers, cost more than they ever have before,
and most Of them can only he obtained with
cash in hand. In this general increase of prices,
the newspaper is the only thing that remains at
the old figure. We charge no more than when
wheat was worth 80 cents Il bushcl, potatoes y
cents, pork live cents and everything else i'll
proportion, which are now more than doubled
In this view of the case our patrons can see for
themselves the reasonableness Of orr call tor
prompt payment, of those accounts that are
now due
We have added, in me past year to the stock
in our office, about $3.50 in presses and type
We now have two power presses and two hand
presses, and material of every description which
enables us TO do every hind ofjob printing with
neatncss and despatch, and we invite everybody
having work in this department TO bring it along
and we engage to give satisfaction both AZ &c
style and price.