White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-22
TEE NEW YORK TRIBUNE--ls57-s

The NEW YORK TRIBUNE--ls57-s.
nvHR TRIBUNE vas first issued as Dsi-
j. IV on the 10th of April, lS4l. It's eeA
" edition vas commenced in September o. tne
same wear; its Semi Weekly in May, lo4 o..
Il was the first daily in America 70 ISSUE w
bic or eightpaye sheet at low price, su
kept at least even with the forenost OF i1s
in the rapid expansion OF NeEspSPer 49, ~ ~
which the great extension of RAILROADS. anu 1ne
establishment Of the Telegraph system nave
crowded into these last sixteen oyential years
No larger journal Is afforded 1T so low Priee ~
any quarter of the world; none in America, nc
matter at what price Issued, pays an e9Sa
amount. weekly or monthly, for intellectual "a
Dor. II employs correspondents regularly IN the
leading capitals of Europe, and at the most I'm,
portant points on this continent, Win noSt =
staff of writers and reporters at home, ~
full, early and accurate Information as ING NJ
object of a Newspaper, and the tlhe! J'l :,
thorough calculation thereof as the chlei emo OF
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune mas
been and will be conducted, extending ana per
eoting its correspondence so fast as the increase
of its patronage viii justify the expense. Snooio
the current attempt to connect the Old Win 'ne
New World by themagnetic wire prove success
full, we shall very soon, at heavy cost to our
selves, and, We trust, n corresponding advanag e
to our readers, publish each morning synopsis
of the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western ASA W.T.
regular reports Of the markets, the monetary as
poets and harvest prospects of hither Europe
With good atlas beside him and his dauy pa
per on his freside table, the American farmer or
artizan within days ride of the city may.thf m
study each evening the doinSs of the ciTl'Ize-
world throughout the day precedins; 'od y
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, a Semi Weekly, or
even Weekly paper may seem sufficient
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions OF Pc:
lihcal Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Material
Progress, and whatever may affect the Intellee.
tual, Moral, Social and Physical well-being oil
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 Glass in
knowledge, virtue and general esteem. 1t IS
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all It's as
poets, to Intemperancs 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
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 dis
lance across which their respective pnoducts are
exchanged, and, of course, reducing the cost OF
their transfer. Regarding Fillibusterism in all
its phases, and every form and device of Ma
ffnr, -aNo cd al hnrranRn
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 bench
cence athome, foremost among which we rank
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 are not yet fairly distributed, and thatno one
ready to work should ever famish in unwilling
il lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social Improvement which does not couB-
tervail the dictates of eternal Morality nor war
upon that natural right Of every one to whatso-
eyerhe has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial must sink mlnkind into the chaos
and night of barbarism and universal squalor.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, libertines and prohigates can never be 9th
er lin the m Iin) than needy and wretched, IL
bears aloft the great trth 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 a true Education-Relig-
ions, Moral and Industrial as well as Intellectu-
Ais the most cffe :tive 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 troddeh out, we have charity for all
form of evil but those which seek personal ad-
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings The champion of no class or caste, the !
devotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter- !
prefer to each other of mems better impulses and
the harbinger of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom I
circumstances or misapprehensions have thrown /
into unnatural antagonism. A contemporary once l
observed that he never knew hard, grasping, |
niggardly employer who did not hate the Tri- 1
bune, nor a genuine, large souled, kindly one,
willing to 1--we and let live, who did not like it,
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attcstation
The circulation of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
176, 500 copies; Semi Weekly, 16, 900 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies;
Total, gao, 800 copies. 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
BUR coteHporaries. Had our hostility - Hum tr
Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been nor. .-.-.
led and polite, our Daily issues WOMB s- --.
some thousands heavier, and our aiver''- ISL.
more lucrative; but of our patronage generally
We have no reason, no wish 20 complain.
OF late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the infiu-
enee 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-
ID into it at all Still, we have been made to
eel the heavy hand Of Power, and have doubt
esslOst thousands of subscribers in consequence.
'retexts to which no individual in his private
'apacity would have stopped, have been relied
m to justify the stoppage of our papers within
each Of their subscribers and rightful owners,
md their retention in the Post Office till their
'aiue was destroyed. Post Masters have been
chooled by rival journals-several eff them liT- l.
ng on heirself-proclaimed ability to serve as an
ntidote to the Tribune-as to their political
uty to promote at our expense the dissemination
{ gazettes of adverse politics. We shall outlive
bis warfare, but We do not affect indifference to
: In the openfeld of discussion, we fear moth ,
ne; but in the tens of thousands of rural 4
the Post Master can induce
iany OF his quiet neighbors to take the journal
e recommends, We have already lost some pat
ons, and expect to lose more az our subscrip-
ions for this year expire. We appeal, therefore,
the hearty, faithful, fearless advocates of Free
'abor and Free Sell throughout the land to take Z
are that this official warfare on our circulation Il
e not prosecuted without counteraction. We y.
mnlOV no TRAVELLING a0anta for -. ill a.. -. a.