Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-21
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, 1878.

in September of the its
Semi-W Weekly in May IS45. 1t was the first daily
in America to issue double or eight page sheet at
low price, and it has kept at least even 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; none
in America, no matter at what price Issued pays
an equal amount weekly or monthly. for inteilec-
tual labor. 1t employs correspondents regularly
in the leading capitals of Europe. ard at the most
important points on this continent, with liberal
staff of writers and reporters at home. regarding
full early and accurate information as the first OBJ
ject of a Newspaper, and the timely and thorough
elucidation thereof the chief end of its Edito-
rials In that spirit, The Tribune has been and
will be conducted, extending and perfecting its
correspondence so 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 successfui,we shall We
nv soon, at heavy cost to ourselves and, trust
q corresponding advantage TO our readers publish
each morning a synopsis of the preceding days
occurrences throughout Europe: Nofthern Africa
and estern ASIA with regular reports of the mar
kets. the monetary aspects and harvest prospects
of hther Europe. With a good atlas beside him
and his daily paper on his hresde table, the A
merican farmer or artisan within days ride of
the city may then study each evening the doings
of the civilized world throughout the day proceed
ing and it seems hardly possible that any who
read, but especially one who has children to
educate will longer deny himself the pleasure and
profit of daily journal. The same is true mea-
surably of those who live further inland though.
where mails are infrequent, a Semi-W eekIy, or C.
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. Its leading idea
is the honoring of honest useful Work in whatever
sphere capacity. and the consequent elevation
of the Laboring class In knowledge, virtue and
II 10 .arIiU tO
ry under all its aspects, to Intemperance in what
ever form or degree with its accessories 10 War
in the defense of Country and Liberty against
actual invasion and to every form of Gambling.
Desiring TO see Production extended and encour-
aged, while wild Speculation and useless Traffic
curtailed it favors the policy of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariff-a 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
which their respective products are 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 coyetous
ness, with unqualified abhorrencc as the bane of
Republics and in their triumph the grave of Equal
Human Rights, seek by every means TO WOO
and win the attention of our countrymen from pro-
jects of aggrandizement abroad to enterprises of
developement and bencfcence at home, foremost
among which rank Railroad through the
heart of territory to connect the waters of the
Atlantic with those of the Pacific. Believing that
the goods of this life not yet fairly distributed
in unwilling idleness it lends open ear to eve-
ny suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countervail the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war upon that natural right of every one TO
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly ac
quired, whose denial must sink mankind into the
chaos and night of barbarsm and universal squal-~
With profound consciousness that idlers,
drunkards. libertineS and prohlgates can never be
other lin the main) than needy and wretched, it
bears aloft 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
Crme-that n true Observation-Disclosures, Moral
and Industrial as well as Intelectual-is the most
effective temporal antdote to the errors and woes
of our race. Recognizing in the most degraded
specimen Of Humanity divine spark which should
be reyerently cherished, not ruthlessiy trodden
out We have charity for all forms of evil but those
which seek personal advantage through the de-
basement of fellow-beings. The champion of
no class caste, the deYotee of no sect We would
fan be the interpreter to each other of men bet
ter impulses and aspirations, the harbinger of
general concord between Labor and Capital and
among those whom circumstances or misapprehen-
sions haze thrown into unnatural antagonism A
contemporary once observed that he never knew a
hard, graspiDg, niggardly employer who did not
hate The Tribune, nor a generous, large-souled,
kindly one willing to live and let live who did
not like it. We ask no higher praise, warmer
atteStation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this time
as follows Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly, l76,S0O
copies; Semi-We eekiy, 10000 copies; California
That of the Scmi-W eekly and Weekly We believe
to be exceeded by other newspaper published
in the world; that of the Daily falls behind that
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 Adyertis-
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-
minish rural circulation through the influence
of the Postmasters, some of whom embark in it
eagerly, others under political restraint, while
large number, are happy, for the sake Human
Nature, to state refuse to be dragooned into 1t at
all. Still, we have been made to feel the heavy
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 stoppas se
OF our papers within reach OF their and
rightfui owners, and their retention in the Post
Office till their value was destroyed. Postmasters
have been schooled by rival journals-several of
them living their self-proclaimed ability to
serve antidote to The Tribune-as to their
political duty to promote at our expense the dis
semmination of gazettes of adverse politics. We
shall outlive this warfare, bu do not affect in
difference toit In the open field of discussion.
we fear nothing; but in the tens of thousands of
rural neighborhoods where the Postmaster can in
duce many of his quiet neighbors take the jour
nal he recommeuds,w we have already lost some pa
irons, and expect to lose 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 His olclai warfare on our 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
to our Weekly and Semi Weekly from
our books soon as his term has expired, for we
will not haunt 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 pa
per. believe Its influence saiutary and worthy to
be extended; and thus far reliance has been