The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-03

and proAigates can never be other lin the
main) than needy and wretched it bears aloft
the great truth that Prevention is better than
Punishment-that the child trained up in the
way he should 60, will rarely in after years
desert that way for the thorny paths of Vice
and Crime-that a true Educaton-Religious
Moral and Industrial as well as Intellectual
is the most effective temporal antidote to the
errors and woes of our race Recognizing i'm
the most degraded specimen Of Humanity a
divine spark which should be reverently
cherished, not ruthlessly trodden out, we have
charity for all forms of evil but those which
seek personal advantage through the debase-
ment of our fellow-beings. The champion of
no class or caste, the devotee of no sect, we
would fain be the interpreter to each other of
general concord between Labor and Capital,
and among those whom circumstances or mis-
apprehension have thrown into unnatural an
tagonism. A contemporary once observed that
he never knew hard, grasping, niggardly
employer, who did not hate THE TRIBUNE,
nor generous, large-souled, kindly one, will
ing to live and let live, who did not like it.
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attesta-
ton.
The circulation of THE TRIBUNRis at this
time rs follows: Daily 81, 900 copies !;
Weekly, l16, 500 copies; Semi-Weekly,
l6, 900 copies; California and European,
5000 copies Total $50, 500 copies.
That of the Semi Weekly and Weekly we be-
lieve to be exceeded by no other newspaper
published in the world that of the Daily
falls behind that of some of our cotempora-
ries. 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 Advertising far
more lucrative but of our patronage gener-
ally we have no reason, no wish to complain.
OF late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the in-
fuence of the Postmastsrs, some of whom en-
bark in it eagerly, others under political con-
straint; while large number we are happy
for the sake of Human Nature to state, refuse
to be dragooned into it at all. Still, we have
been made to feel the heavy hand Of Power,
and have doubtless lost thousands of subscri-
bers in consequence. Pretexts to which no in
diyidual in his private capacity would have
stopped have been relied ON to Justify the
stoppage of our papers within reach Of their
subscribers and rightful owners, and their re-
tention ia the Post-Ofice till their value was
destroyed. Postmasters have been scheoled
by rival journals-several Of them living On
their self-proclaimed ability to serve as an
antidote to THE TRIBUEE--as to their po-
litical duty to promote at cur expense the
dissemination of gazettes Of adverse politics.
We shall outlive this warfare, but we do not
affect indifference to it. In the open field of
discussion we fear nothing but in the tens
of thousands of rural neighborhoods where
the Postmaster can induce many of his quiet
neghbors to take the journal he recommends,
we have already lost some patrons, and ex-
pect to lose more 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 on our cir
culation be not prosecuted without counter
action. We employ no travelling agents, for
we will not consent to have the public har-
assed with the solicitations of strangers in
our behalf We strike the name Of each sub
scribcr to our Weekly or Semi Weekly from
our books 80 soon as his term has expired, for
we will not haunt our patrons with duns for
arrears which they may say they never in
tended to incur, for papers which perhaps
they never read we rely for the renewal of
our club subscriptions solely ON the volun-
teered efforts of those who, liking our paper,
believe its influence salu AIRY and worthy to be
extended and thus far our reliance has been
justified, as we trust it may continue to be.
THE TRIBUNE is printed on large i'm
perial sheet, 323 by ~ inches, folded in
quarto form, and mailed to subscribers at the