The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-09-08
The \ eW Y ork Tribune
1853


same year; its Semi Weekly in Nav, 1916. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue a double
or elght-page sheet at a low price, and it has
kept at least even with the foremost of its rivals
III the RAPID expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension Of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic svs-
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event
iul years n larger journal is afforded at so
low price IN any quarter of the world none
IN America. no matter at what price issued,
pays an equal amount, weekly OF 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 reDort
ers at nome, regarding tull early and accurate
information as the first object of a Newspaper.
and the timely and thorough elucidation there
OF as the chief end OF its Editorials. In that
spirit, III TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
pondence SO last as the increase of its patronage
Will 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 q heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust a corresponding advantage to
our readers publish each morning svnopsis
of the preceding days occurrences throughout
| Europe, n orthern Africa and Western Asia.
with regular reports of the markets. the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With q good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his fireside table, the American
| farmer or artlzah within DAVIS ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
cedlng; and 1t seems hardly possible that any
one VINO can read, but especially one who has
children to educate, viii longer denv himself
the pleasure and profit Of daily Journal. The
same Is true measureahly of those who live fur
Their inland; though. where mails are infre-
.quent, a Semi Weekly, or even a 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
beng OF mankind dogmatic Theology alone
excepted. It's leading idea is the honoring of
honest, usefu! Work, i'll whatever sphere or ca
Paclty, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Glass IN knowledge, virtue and general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all It's aspects, to Intemperance 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
cd and encouraged, while wild Speculation and
useless Traffic are curtailed, it fivors the policy
OF sustaining and diveIsfying Home Industry
by discriminating Tariff "a policy which
tends to increase the price Of Grain to the far
ner, 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 Fillibustcrism in all its phases, and
every form and device of National coyetous-
ness 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 country
men from projects of ACKNOWLEDGMENT abroad to
enterprises Of development and benefcence at
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 famsh in u-
willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not counterval 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 a profound consciousness
that iders, drunkards, libertines and profit
gates can never be other Tin the main than
needy and wretched, it bears alot 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 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, the
devotce of no Sect we would fan be the inter
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirations, the harbinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or misapprehensons
have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
contemporary 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 $4,000 copies Week
", l76,8O0 copies Semi Weekly, 5000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies )
Total 230,S00 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
our contemporaries. Had our hostility to HUI
ma 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 III
fiuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark lii it eagerly, Others under polite con-
straipt while large number we are happy
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, d have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence. 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
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 self proclaimed
ability to serve as an antfdote 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 neighborhoods where
the Postmaster can induce many of his quiet
nelghbors to take the journal he recommends,
we have already lost some patrons and expect
to lose more as our subscriptions for this year
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 counteTaction. Weenplov
/ no travelling agents, for we viii 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 so soon as his terIn-has
| expired, for we will not haunt our patrons with