Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-11-18
,UHE NEW YORK TRIBrNE, 1875.

TIME NEW YORK TRIBTNE, 1s57-s.
i The Tribune was irst issued as Daily
the 10th of April 1S41. Its Weekly edition
commenced in September of the same Y EAR It's
Semi-weekly in May, 1915. Ii was the hrst daily
in America to issue a double or eght-page sheet at
a low price and X has Kept at least even with tho
foremost of its rivals in the rapid expansion Of
Newspaper enterprise, which the great extension
of Railroads, and the establishment OF the ieie-
graph system have crowded into these iast sixteen
eyentful years. No larger journal Is anorded at
so low a price in any quarter OF the word none
in America, matter at what prlee issued ipays
equal amount, weekly or monthIy, Tor lh'ehec-
tual Tabor 1t employs correspondents regularly
in the leading capitals of Europe AID at the most
important points on this continent with liberal
staff of writers and reporters at home regarding
full, early and accurate information as u nrsl 90
ject of n Newspaper, and the timely and thorough
elueidation thereof the chief end of its Edito-
rials. In that spirit, THE Tribune has been and
will be conducted, extending and pcrfecting 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 NewWorld
by the magnetic wire prove successful we shall We
ry soon at heavy cost TO ourselves and, We trust,
corresponding advantage to our readers publish
each morning a synopsis of the proceeding days
occurrences throughout Europe. Northern Africa
and Wesern 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 freside table, the A.
merican farmer artisan within days ride Of
the city may then study each evening the dolngs
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 will longer deny himself the pleasure and
profit of a daily journal. The same Is true mea-
suraby of those who live further inland though.
where mails infrequent, Semi-Neekly, or E.
ven 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 honorfng 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 necessarily hostile to Slave
~ under all its aspects, to lntemperance IN what
ever form or degree with its accessories, to War
save 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, it favOrs the policy of sustaining and
| diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
| Tariff-a policy which tends to increase the price
of rain to the farmer while diminishing that of
Bread TO the artisan, by reducing the distance g.
cross which their respective products are exchang
ed and of course reducing the cost of their trans
! fer. Regarding FiIIibusterism in all its phases
| and every form and device of National eovetous-
| ness, with unquailhed abhorrenee 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-
| iects of ACKNOWLEDGMENT abroad to enterprises OF
! development and benefcence at home, foremost
| among which rank Railroad through the
heart of territory to connect the waters of the
Atlantic with those of the Pacific BeilevIng that
the goods Of this life not yet fairly
| and that ready to work should ever faraish
in unwilling idleness, il lends open 10 eve
~ suggestion of Social Improvement which does
| not counteryail the dictates of eternal Morality
| nor upon that natural right of every one 10
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly &C
| auired, whose denial must sink mankind into the
| chaos and night of barbarisn and universal squal
| or With a profound consciousness that ldlers,
drunkards, libertines and profigates can never De
| other lin the main) than needy and wretched, ii
bears aiof the great truth that Prevention is bet
ter than PunishmeRt-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 n true observation-disclosures, Moral
and Industrial as we'll Intellcctual-is the most
effective temporal antdote to the errors and woes
of Recognizing in the most degraded
specimen of Humanity 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 de-
basement of our fellow-beings- The champion of
| no class or CASTE the devotee of no sect woud
fain be the interpreter each other of mems bet
| ter impulses and aspirations. the barbinger of
| general concord between Labor and Capital, and
| among those whom circumstances misapprehen-
sons haze thrown into unnatural antagonism. 4
cotemporary once observed that he never knew a
hard, grasping 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, 600 copies; Weekly. l75 500
copies; Semi-W eelIly. 10000 copies; California
and European, 5000 copies Total. 230 500 copies
That of the Semi-WeekIy and Weekly We believe
to be exceeded by no other newspaper published
in the world that Of the Daily falls behind tn al
of some of our cotem poraries. 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; bat of our patronage gen
orally we have no reason, wish. TO complain.
of late concerted effort has been made to dii-
minish our rural circulation through the influence
OF the Postmastcrs. some of whom embark in II
eagerly, others under political restraint, while
r large number, we are happy. for the sake Human
Nature, to state, refuse to be dragooned into il al
all Still, we have been made TO feel the heavy
hand of Power, and have doubtless lost thousand;
of subscribers in consequence. Pretexts to which
no Individual in his private capacity would have
stopped have been relied on to justify the stoppage
OF our papers within reach of their subscribers and
righuul owners, and their retention in the Post
once till their value destroyed. Postmaster.
have been schooled by rival joarnals-seyeral OF
: them living on their self-proc.aimed ability tC
serve as an antidote to The Tribune-as to theil
political duty to promote at our expense the dis
semmlnation of gaZettes of adverse politics. We
shall outiye this warfare, but ao not affect in
difference to it. In the open field of discussion
;, we fear nothing; but in the tens of thousands o.
rural nelghborhoods where the Postmaster il
duce many of his quiet neighbors to take the jour
nal he recommends we have already lost some pa
y irons, and expect to lose subscription
| for this year expire. We appeal. therefore TO th
hearty, faithful, fearless advocates of Free Labo
and Free Soil throughout the land TO take ear
that this official warfare on our circulation be no
| prosecuted without counteraction. We employ N
travelling agents, for VIII not consent to hav
the public harrassed with the solicitations of
gers In our behalf We strike the name of eacl
: subscriber to our Weekly and Semi-W eekly from
f! our books as soon his term has expired for w
a viii not haunt our patrons with duns for arrear
:, which they may say they never intended 10 incur
y Tor papers which perhaps they never read we re