The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-05

1855

ENHE TRIBUNE was first issued as Daily
l. on the 10th of April, lS4l. It's Weekly e.
dition was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, 1916. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet at a low price, and it 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- i
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event
ful 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,
pays an equal amount, weekly or monthly, for
intellectual ls5or 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 full, early and accurate
information as the first object of Newspaper.
and the timely and thorough calculation 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 50 fast as the increase of its patronage
viii justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the Now
GRID by the magnetic wire prove successful,
we shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, corresponding advantare to
our readers publish each morning synopsis
of the preceding day s occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia,
with regular reports of the markets, the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hther
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his Preside table, the American
farmer OF artizaI within DAYS ride of the
city may then Study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
ceding 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 nieasureably of those " 10 live fur
Their inland though, where mails are infre-
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 NAV 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, i'll whatever sphere or ca
pacity, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Class in knowledge, virtue and general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects. TO Intcmperance 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 cultailcd, 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 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 FlllIbusterisrn 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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT abroad to
enterprises of development and beneficence 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 10
one ready to work should ever famish in I'M
willing ldleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countervall 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
tiidt 1ulcIS, UIuHkdfUS, 1lDeTtlneS ana pTO0l-
gates can never be other Gin the man) than
needy and wretched, it bears alo1t 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 Vice and Crime
that a true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
Industrial as well as Intelectual-is the most
effective temporal antidote to the errors and
woes of OR race. Recognizing in the most
degraded specimen Of Humanity divine spark
which should be revcrently 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
devotee OF no sect, we would fain be the inter-
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirat ons, the harbinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances OF fiisapprehensions
have thrown into unnatural antagonisn. A
once observed that he never knew
a hard, grasping, niggardly employer who did
not 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 attestation
The circulation of The Tribune is at this |
time as follows: Daily $4,000 copies; Week |
ly 176,800 copies Semi Weekly. 16, 600 cop. |
les California and European. 5000 copies =
Total, 230,S00 copies. That of the Semi !
Weekly and Weekly we believe & & &c exceeded I
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 |
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. ~T
Of late, a concerted effort has been made to |
diminish our rural circulation through the in
tluence of the POstmaSters, some of whom en- |
bark in it eagerly, Others under polite con-
straint; while a large number we are happy, |
for the sake of Human N ature 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 i'll 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 antIaote 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
10 IlDb slIccO lnQlUcfencc 10 H. LII tHc OPEN
field of discussion we fear nothing; but in the
ems of thousands of rural neighborhoods where
he Postmaster can induce many of his quiet
,eighbors to take the journal he recommends,
We have already lost some patrons and expect
o lose more as our subscriptions for this year
,xpire. We appeal, therefore. to the hearty,
aithful, fearless advocates of Free Labor and
cree Soil throughout the land to take care that
his official warfare on our circulation be not
Prosecuted without counteraction. We employ
10 travelling agents, for we will not consent to
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