The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-03-31
The New York Tribune
1885,


or eieht-page sheet at a low price, ana IL mas
kcpt at least even with the foremost Of lis rivals
i'm the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension OF Ralroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys-
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event.
full 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,
paws an equal amount, weekly CT monthly, for
intellectual labor 1t employs correspondents
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe,
and at the most important points on this CONT
nent, with liberal staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding tull, early and accurate
information as the first object Of d Newspaper.
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as the chief end OF its Editorials. In that
spirit THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted extending and perfecting its cores
Ionlence so fast as the increase Gifts patronage
will justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the New
W orld by the magnetic wire prove successful,
We shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
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 none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his fireside table. the American
farmer or artizan within a days ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
csding; and it seems hardly possible that any
one 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 moasureably of those who live fur
ther inland though, where mails a e infre-
quent, Semi Weekly, or even Weekly pa
per- may seem sufficient. J.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of
Political Economy, Public Policy. Ethics, Ma
terial Progress, and whatever may affect the
Intellectual, Moral, Social and Physical we'll
being of mankind. dogmatic Theology alone
excepted. Its leading idea is the honoring of
honest. useful Work, in whatever sphere or ca
pacity, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Glass in knowledge, virtue and general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects. to Intemperance in what
ever form degree, with its accessories, TO " ar
save in the defense of Country and Liberty
against actual invasion, and to every form of
Gambling. Desiring TO see Production extend
ed and encouraged, while wild Speculation and
useless Traffic are curtaled it favors the policy
of sustaining and diversifying Home Industry
by discriminating Tariff = policy which
tends to increase the price of Grain to the far
mer, while diminishing that of Bread to the
artizan, by reducing the distance across which
their respective products are exchanged, and,
of course, reducing the cost of their transfer
Regarding Fillibusterism in all IFS phases, and
every form and device of National covctous-
ness, with unqualified adherence as the Lane
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 country
men from projects of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT abroad TO
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home. foremost among which we rank Rail-
road through the heart Of our territory TO con-
meet the waters of the Atlantic with those of
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life are not yet fairly distributed. and that no
one ready TO work should ever fanish in un-
willing idleness. it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement v hich docs
not countervail the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war upon that natural right Of every one to
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly
acquired, whose denial must sink mankind
into the chaos and night of barbarism and uni
versal squalor. With profound consciousness
that idlers, drunkards, ibertines and profit
gates can never be other Gin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears aloft the great
truth that Prevention is better than Punish
ment-that the child trained up in the way lie
should go. will rarely in after years desert that
way for the tlorny paths of Y ice and Crime
that true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
Industrial as well as Intellectual is the most
effective temporal antidote to the errors and
woes of our race. 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 adj
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The champion of no class or caste, tie
deyotee OF no Sect we would fain be the inter
prefer to each other Of mems better impulses
and aspirat ois, the harbinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or nlisapprehensons
have thrown into unnatur i antagenism. A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
hard, grasping. niggardiy 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. - 5
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows :: Daily $50 900 copies Week
ly. 176.SO0 copies; Semi Weekly. $1,000 cop.
les California and European, 5000 copies :
Total. 230,S30 conies. That of the Semi
Weekly and Weekly we believe to be exceeded
by no other newspaper Published in the world
that of the Daily falls behind that of some of
our contemporaries. Had our host lily to HUI
man Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite, our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Adj
vertising far more lucrative !; but of our patron
age generally we have no reason, no wish, to
complain.
Of late, concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the ili-
Hucnce OF the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark IN 1t eagerly, Others under polite con-
straiat; Will. large number we arc happy,
for the sake OF Human Nature, to state refuse
To i1p inf nt oil l.
made to feel TIE heavy hand of Power, d have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence. Pretexts to which no individual in
his private caracity would have stopped have
been relied on 10 justify the stoppage of our
papers within reach of their subscribers and
rightful owners, and their retention in the Post
Office till their value was destroyed. Post
masters have been schooled by rival journals
several of them living on their sell. proclaimed
ability to serve as an aritIaote to The Tribune
AS to their political duty to promote at our
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 neighborhoodsv here
the POSTMASTER can induce many of his Quiet
neighbors to take the Journal he recommends.
We have already lost some patrons. and exrect
to lose more as our subscriptions for this wear
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 circulation be not
prosecuted without counteraction. Wcemploy
no travelling agents. for we will not consent TO
have the public harasscd with the soEcitations
of strangers in our behalf We strike the name
of each subscriber to our Weekly mr. Semi.
eekly from our books so soon as his term has
expired, tor we viii not haunt our patrons with