The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-03-24

1885,

same year: its SEMI W eekly in May, 1915. Ii
was the first daily in America to issue a double
or eigIt-page sheet at a low price, and 1t has
kept at least even with the foremost Of its rivals
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise which the great extension OF Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys-
TEN have crowded into these last sixteen event.
full wears. No larger Journal is afforded at SO
low a price i'll any quarter of the world none
in America. no matter at what price issued,
pays an equal amount, weekly or monthly, for
intellectual labor. 1t employs correspondents
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe,
and at the most important points on this contl-
nent, with liberal staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding full, early and accurate
information as the first object Of a Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as the chief end of its Editorials. In that
spirit. TIKI TRIBUNE has hecn and will be
conducted, extending and perfeeting IFS cores
on lence so fast as the increase of its patronage
W L Justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the New
World by the magnetic wire prove successful
We shall very soon, at a heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, corresponding advantage to
our readers. publish each morning a 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 firesde table. the American
farmer or artizaR 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 viii longer deny himself
the pleasure and profit of daily Journal The
same is true me asureahlv of those who live fur
ther inland though, where mails are infrc-
quent, Semi Weekly, or even Weekly pa
per- may seem sufficient.
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 It's leading idea is the honoring of
honest, usefu! Work, III 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 incompetence 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
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 "a policy which
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 its phases, and
every form and device of National covetous-
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 aggrandizement abroad to
enterprises of development and beneficence at
home, foremost among which we rank a 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 famish in I'M
willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social Improvement which does
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, lbcrtines 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 he
should go, will rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny paths of ice and Crime
that true observation-disclosures Moral and
Industrial as well as Intellectual-i 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 revercntly 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, the
deyotee OF no sect, we would fain be the inter-
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirations, the harbingcr of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or misapprehelisions
have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
hard, graspmg. niggardly employer who did
net hate The Tribune, nor a generous, large
souled, kindly one willing TO live and let live,
who did not like it. We ask no higher praise,
no warmer attcstation. .s. 7s.r si.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows Daily $50 copies Week.
ly l16SO0 copies Semi w eellly. 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies =
Total. 230,S00 copies. That of the Semi
Weekly AID 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 ility to HUI
man Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite. our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Ad-
vertisng far more lucrative but of our patron
| age generally We have no reason no wish, to
| complain.
| OF late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the in
| fiuence OF the Postmasters some of whom en-
| bark i'll 1t eagerly, others under polite con-
| straint while large number we are bappy.
for the sake of Human Nature, to state refuse
to be driven into it at all. Still, we have been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, & have
| doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence. Pretexis to which no indiy idual 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 retention in the Post
Office till their value was DESTROYED Post
masters have been scheoled by rival Journals
several of them living on their self proclaimed
ability to serve antIdote to The Tribune
-as to their political duty TO promote at our
expense the dissemination of gazette of adverse
politics. We shall outlive this warfare, but we
do not affect indifference to it. In the opcn
field of discussion, we fear nothing but in the
tens of thousands of rural neighborhoods where
the Postmaster can induce many of his quiet
neighbors to take the Journal he recommends,
we have already lost some patrons, and expect
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 counteraetion. We employ
no travelling agents, for we will not consent to
have the public harasSed with the solicitations
of strangers in our behalf. We strike the name
of each subscriber to our Weekly or Semi
Weekly from our books 80 soon as his term has
expired, for we will not hayOf onr pafrons with