Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-11-25
LI,HE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. 1875:

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in America to 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 Tele
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; none
in America, no matter at what price issued, pays
equal amount, weekly or monthly, for intellec-
tual labor. 1t employs correspondents regularly
in the leading capitals of Europe aid at the most
important points this continent, with liberal
! staff of writer's and reporters at home, regarding
full early and accurate information as the first OBJ
ject of Newspaper, and the timely and thorough
calculation thereof the chief end of its Edito-
rias. In that spirit THE Tribune has been and
will be conducted, extending and perfecting its
correspondence fast the Increase of its pa
tronage will justify the expense. Should the cur
rent attempt to connect the Old with the NewWorld
by the magnetic wire prove successful we shall ye
ry soon, at heavy cost to ourselves and, We trust
corresponding advantage to our readers publish
each morning a synopsis of the preceding days
occurrences throughout Europe Northern Africa
and W 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 his ireside table, the A
merican farmer artisan within days ride Of
the city may then study 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 daily journal. The same Is true mea-
suraby of those who live further inland: though.
where mails arc infrequent, a Semi-Weekly, or G.
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 be.ng of mankind, dog
matte Theology alone excepted. Its leading idea
is the honoring of honest useful ork in whatever
81 here or capacity, and the consequent elevation
of the Laboring class in knowledge, virtue and
general 1t is necessarily hostile to Slave
ry under all its aspects. to Intemperance in what
ever 6efr WI rs alce
save in the defense of Country and Liberty against
actual invasion, and to every form of Gambling.
Desiring to Production extended and encour-
aged, while wild Speculation and useless Traffic
curtailed it fayors the policy of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariff policy which tends to increase the price
of Grain to the farmer while diminishing that of
Bread to the artisan, by reducing the distance a
cross which their respective products are exchaDg
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 adherence as the banc of
Republics and in their triumph the grave of Equal
Human Rights. seek by every means to WOO
and win the attention of our countr ymen from pro-
jects Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT abroad to enterprises of
developement and benefcence at home. foremost
among which we rank Railroad through the
heart territory to connect the waters of the
Atlantic with those of the Pacific Believing that
the goods of this life not yet fairly distributed.
and that ready'to work should ever famish
in unwilling idleness, it lends open ear to eve
ry suggestion of Social Improvement which does
not cOuntcrvai the dictates of eternal Morality
nor upon that natural right of every to
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly ac-
quired, whose denial must sink mankind into the
chaos and night of barbarism and universal squal
or With profound consciousness that idIers.
drunkards. libertnes and profigates 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 a true observation-disclosures; Moral
and Industrial well rs Intellectual-is the most
effective temporal antidote TO the errors and woes
of Recognizing in the most degraded
specimen of Humanity divine spark which should
be revcrentiy cherished, not ruthiessiy 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
class caste, the devOtee of no sect, we would
fain be the interpreter to each other of men bet
ter Impulse and aspirations, the harbinger of
general concord between Labor and Capital, and
among those whom circumstances or misapprehen-
siOns haze thrown into unnatural antagonism.
cotemporary observed that he never knew a
hard, grasping, niggardly employer who did not
hate The Tribune nor generous large-souied,
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, 76,S00
copies; Semi-W eekly, 1900 copies; California
and European 5000 copies; Total 230,S00 copies.
That of the Sem-WeekIy and Weekly We believe
to be exceeded by other newspaper published
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of some of our cotemporaries. Had our hostility
to Human Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been
more guarded and polite our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Advertis-
ing far more lucrative; but of our patronage gen.
orally we have no reason, no wish, to complain
Of late, a concerted effort has been made to di-
minsh our rural circulation through the influence
of the Postmasters, some of whom embark in it
eagerly, others under political restraint, while
| large number, We are happy, for the sake Human
Nature. to state, refuse to be dragooned into 1t at
n We have haap aHa to feel re
/ hand of Power and have doubtless lost thousands
| OF subscribers in consequence PretextS to which
| no individual in his private capacity would have
stopped have been relied to justify the stOppage
of our papers within reach of their subscribers and
| rightful owners and their retention in the Post
/ Office till their value destroyed. Postmasters
have been schooled by rival journals-several of
them living their self-proc.aimed ability to
| serve antidote to The Tribune-as to their
| political duty to promote Mt expense the dis
| semmination of gazettes of adverse politics. We
shall outive this warfare, but do not affect in
| difference to 1t. In the open field of discussion,
we fear nothing; but in the tens of thousands of
rural neigh borhoods where the Postmaster can in
duce many of his quiet neighbors to take the jour
| nal he recommends we have already lost some pa
irons. and expect to lose 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 our circulation be not
! prosecuted without couu.eractiOn. 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 to our Weekly and Semi-Weekly from
| our books as soon as his term has expired for we
| VIII not haunt our patrons with duns for arrears
| which they may say they never intended to incur
for papers which perhaps they never read we re-
ly for the renewal of our subscriptions solely on
the volunteered efforts of those who. liking our pa
per, belleve ITS influence salutary and worthy to
be extended; and thus far our reliance has been
| justified, as we trust 1t may continue to be
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