White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-07-15
The NEW YORK TRIBUNE--Is57-s

Iy edlslon was commenced in September OF IN
same year; its Semi w eekly in May, lS45.-
1t vas the first daily in America to issue a dou
Bile or eight-page sheet az low priees ana II ma
kept at least even with the foremost ofits rival
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enterprise
which the great extension of Railroads, and th'
establishments Of the Telegraph system have
crowded into these last sixteen sventful years
No larger Journal Is afforded at so low price II
any quarter of the world; none in America, NJ
| matter at what price issued, pays an equa
amount, weekly or monthly, for intellectual Ia
Dor. It employs correspondents regularly in the
leading capitals Of Europe, and at the most I'm
portant points on this continent, with liberia
staff Of writer's and reporters at home, regardlne
full, early and accurate information as the hrsi
object Of a Newspaper, and the timely and
thorough calculation thereof as the chief end Of
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune has
been and will be conducted, extending and per
feeting its correspondence fast as the increase
of its patronage will justify the expense Should
the current attempt 70 connect the Old with the
New World by the magnetic wire prove success
full, we shall very soon, at heavy cost to our
selves, and, we trust, corresponding advantage
to our readers, publish each morning synopsis
Of the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia, with
regular reports of the markets, the monetary as
With good atlas beside him and his daily pa
per on his Preside table, the American farmer or
artizan within days ride of the city may then
study each evening the doings Of the civilized
world throughout the day preceding; 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 daily journal. The same is true measure
ably of those who live further inland; though,
where mails are unfrequent, Semi Weekly, or
even Weekly paper may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of Po-
lincal Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Material
Progress, and whatever may affect the lutellec.
tual, Moral, Social and Physical well-being OF
mankind, dogmatic Theology alone excepted.
Its 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. Ii is
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all its as
poets, to Intemperance in whatever form or de-
gree with its accessories, to War save in the de-
fence of Country and Liberty against actual in
vasion, and to every form of Gambling, desiring
to see Production extended and encouraged,
while wild Speculation and useless Traffic are
curtailed, it favors the policy Of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tarif--a policy which tends to increase the
price Of Grain TO the farmer, while diminishing
that of Bread to the artisan, by reducing the dis
lance across which their respective products are
exchanged, and, of course, reducing the cost of
their transfer. Regarding Fillibusterism in all
its phases, and every form and device of Ma
tional covetousness, with unqualified adherence
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 our
countrymen from projects of aggrandizement
abroad to enterprises of development and benef-
cenee athome, foremost among which we rank a
Railroad through the heart of our 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 thatno one
ready to work should ever famish in unwilling
idleness, it lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social improvement whichdoes not eoun-
lsrvail the dictates of eternal Morality nor war
upon that natural right Of every one to whatso-
ever he has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial must sink mankind into the chaos
and night of barbarism and universal squalOr.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, ibertines and prohigates can never be 9th
er lin the m Iin) thIn needy and wretched, il
bears alof 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 EducatiOn-Relig-
ious Moral AMI Industrial as we'll as Intellectu-
Ais the mosteifective temporal antidote to the
errorSand wOes of our race. Recognizing in the |
most degraded specimen of Humanity, divine |
spark which should be reYerently cherished, not
trodden out, we have charity for all |
form of evil but those which seek personal ad- !
vantage through the deblsement of our fellow !
beings. The champion of no class or caste, the /
devotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter- I
prefer to each other Of mems better impulses and 4
the harbinger of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom 1
or misapprehensions have thrown .
into Observation-Disclosures A Contemporary once /
observed that he never knew a hard, grasping
niggardly employer who did not hate the Tri- /
bune, nor a genuine, large -souled, kindly one,
willing to live and let live, who did not like it.
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attastation.
The circulation of the Tribune is at this time
IS follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
I76, 500 copies; Semi Weekly, I6. 900 con-
es; California and European, 6,OOO copies;
Total, 23O,S0O copies. That of the Semi
Weekly and Weekly, we believe to be exceeded
Oy no other newspaper published in the world;
hat of the Daily falls behind that of some of
our cotemporaries. Had our hostility to Human
Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more guar
led and polite, our Daily issues would now be
'ome thousands heavier, and our advertising far
more lucrative; but Of our patronage generally
OF late, concerted effort has been made to
finnish our rural circulation through the infiu-
'nee OF the POstmasters, some of whom embark
n it eagerly, others under Political constraint;
While large number, we are happy, for the sake
# Human Nature, to state, refuse to be dragoon-
d into it at all Still, we have been made to
eel the heavy hand Of Power, and have doubt
ess lost thousands Of subscribers in consequences.
'rete1ts to which no Individual in his private
apacity would have stopped, have been relied
N to justify the stoppage of our papers within {
each of their subscribers and rightfuI owners,
nd their retention in the Post Office till their
'alue was destroyed. Post Masters have been
chooled by rival journals--sevaral eff them liy-
ng on their selfproclaimed ability to serve as an
ntidote TO the Tribune-as to their political
uty to promote at our expense the dissemination
Z gazettes Of adverse politics. We shall outIiye
his warfare, but We do not affect indifference to
In the open field Of discussion, we fear moth
ng; but in the tens Of thousands of rural ]
eighbOrhoodsWhere the Post Master can induce
many Of his quiet neighbors to take the journal
e recommends, We have already lost some pat
ons, and expect to lose more as our subscrip-
ions for this year expire. We appeal, therefore.
the hearty, faithful, fearless advocateso Of Free
'abor and Free Sell throughout theland to take n
are that this Official warfare on our circulation 4
e not prosecuted without condensation. We =
mploy no travelling agents, for we will not con-
ent to have the public harassed with the solicit :
atoms of strangers in our behalf We strike the 8
anne Of each Subscriber to our Weekly or Semi h
Weekly from our books so soon as his term has r
xpired, for we will not haunt eur patrons with 4
uns for arrears which they NAV say thew never p
tended to incur. for nanera which narha ~ a., /