Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-12-02
V,HE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, 1878.

commenced in September of the same ar its
Semi-Weekly in May 1S45. 1t was the first daily
in America 10 issue double eight-page sheet at
a low price and it has kept at least with the
foremost of its rivals in the rapid expansion of
Newspaper enterprise, which the great extension
of Railroads, and the establishment of the TeIe-
graph system have crowded into these last sixteen
eventful years. No larger journal is afforded at
so low price in any quarter of the world;
In America, no matter at what price issued, pays
an equal amount, weekly monthly for intellec
tuai labor 1t employs correspondents regularly
in the leading capitals of Europe ard at the most
important points this continent, with liberal
staff of writers and reporters at home, regarding
full, early and accurate information the first OBJ
ject of a Newspaper and the timely and thorough
elucidaton thereof as the chief end of its Edito-
rias. In that spirit. 1.-The tribune has been and
will be conducted, extending and perfecting its
correspondence so fast as the Increase OF its pa
trOnage will justify the expense. Should the cur
rent attempt to connect the Old with the NewWorid
by the magnetic wire prove successful.we shall ve
~ SOOn at heavy cost TO ourselves and, trust,
a corresponding advantage to readers publish
each morning synopsis of the preceding days
occurrences throughout Europe. Northern Africa
and Western Asia, with regular reports of the mar
kets, the monetary aspects and harvest prospects
of hIther Europe. With good atlas beside him
and his daily paper on his freside table, the A.
merican farmer artisan within days ride of
the city may then stud ~ each evening the doings
of the civilized world throughout the day preced-
ing; and it seems hardly possible that any who
can read, but especially one who has children to
educate, viii longer deny himself the pleasure and
profit of a daily journal. The same is true mea-
surahly of those who live further inland though.
where mails are infrequent, Semi-Weekly. or E.
ven a Weekly. may seem sufficient.
The Tribune deals with questions of Political
Economy Public Policy Ethics, Material Progress
and whatever may affect the Intellectual. Moral,
Social and Physical well beng of mankind, dog
matte Theology alone excepted. It's leading idea
is the honoring OF honest useful Work in whatever
sphere or capacity. and the consequent elevation
of the Laboring class in knowledge, virtue and
general esteem. 1t Is isncccssarily hostile TO Slave
~ under all its aspects. to 1ntcmperance in what
ever form or degree with its accessories, to Var
in the defense of Country and Liberty against
actual invasion, and to every form OF Gam bling.
Desiring to Production extended and encour-
aged, while wild Speculation and useless Traffic
curtaied ii fayOrs the policy OF sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by eliminating
Tariff-a policy which tends to increase the price
of Grain to the farmer while diminishing that of
Bread 10 the artisan, by reducing the distance
cross which their respective products arc exchang
ed and of course, reducing the cost OF their trans
for. Regarding Fillibusterism in all its phases,
and every form and device of National covetous-
ness, with unqualified abhorrence as the bane of
Republics and in their triumph the grave of Equal
Human Rights we seek by every means to WOO
and win the attention of eountTynlen from pro-
jects of aggrandizement abroad to enterprises of
deyelOpement and beuefcence at home, foremost
among which we rank Railroad through the
heart OF our territory to connect the waters of the
Atlantic with those of the Pacific. Believing that
and that one ready 10 work should ever famish
in unwilling idleness it lends an open TO eve
ry suggestion of Social improvement which does
not counterVail the dictates of eternal Morality
war upon that natural right of every one to
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly
quired, whose denial must sink mankind into the
chaos and night of barbarism and universal squal-
or With profound consciousness that idlers
drunkards, libertines and proaigateS can never be
other (in the main) than needy and wretched, it
bears aioft the great truth that Prevention is bet
ter than Punishment-that the child trained up in
the way he should go, will rarely in after years
desert that way for the thorny paths of Vice and
Crime-that true Observation-Disclosures, Moral
and Industrial as well as Intelectual-is the most
effective temporal antidote to the errors and
of our Recognizing in the most degraded
specimen of Humanity divine spark which should
be reverently cherished, not ruthlessly trodden
out have charity for all forms of evil but those
which seek personal advantage through the de-
basement of our fellow-beings. The champion of
no class CASTE the devotee of sect would
fain be the interpreter to each other of mems bet
ter impulses and aspirations, the harblnger of
general concord between Labor and Capital and
among those whom circumstances or misapprehen-
si0ns haze thrown into unnatural antagonism 4
contemporary observed that he never knew a
hard, gTasping. niggardly employer who did not
hate The Tribune nor generous, large-souled,
kindly one, willing TO live and let live, who did
not like it. We ask no higher praise, no warmer
attestation
The circulation of The Tribune is at this time
as follows Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly, lT6,S00
copies; Semi-W eekly 10000 copies; California
and European 5000 copies; Total. 230,600 copies.
That of tire Semi-Weekly and Weekly We believe
to be exceeded by other newspaper published
in the world; that of the Daily fails behind that
OF some Of our cotempOTaTies. Had our hostility
to Human Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been
more guarded and polite, Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Adyertis-
ing far more lucrative; but of our patronage gen
orally we have reason, no wish, to complain.
Of late. a concerted effort has been made to di-
minish rural circulation through the influence
OF the PoStmasters. some Of whom embark in il
eagerly others under political restraint, while
large number, we are happy, for the sake Human
Nature. to state, refuse be ra gooned into Il at
all. Still, we have been made to feel the heavy
hand of Power and have doubtless lost thousands
OF subscribers incOnsequenee. Pretexts TO which
no individual in his private capacity would have
stopped have been relied to justify the stoppage
Of papers within reach of their subscribers and
Once till their value was destroyed. Postmasters
have been schoOled by rival jOurnals-several of
them living their self-prOclaimed ability 10
antidote 10 The Tribune-as to their
political duty to promote at our expense the dis
senmination of gazettes of adverse politics. We
shall Outliye this warfare, but do net affect in
difference to it. In the open field of discussion,
we fear nothing; but in the tens of thousands of
rural neigh borhOOds where the Postmaster can in
duee many of his quiet neighbors to take the jour
nal he recommends we have already lost some pa
irons and expect to lose as our subscriptions
for this year expire. We appeal. therefore to the
hearty faithful, fearless advocates of Free Labor
and Free Soil throughout the land to take care
that this official warfare circulation be not
prosecuted without counteraction We employ no
travelling agents, for will not consent to have
the public harrassed with the solicitations of stran
gers in our behalf We strike the name of each
subscriber 10 our Weekly and Semi-Weekly from
our books as soon as his term has expired for we
Will not haunt our patrons with duns for arrears
which they may say they never intended 10 incur
Tor papers which perhaps they never read we re-
y Ior the renewal of our subscriptions solely on
the volunteered efforts of those who liking our pa
per oeileve Its influence salutary and worth to
be extended; and thus far our reliance has been