The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
The New York Tribune
1885,

1883
SNHE TRIBUNE was first issued as Daily
Il on the 10th Of April, 1S4I. Its Weekly e.
dltlon was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in MAY, 1916. It
was the first daily in America to issue a 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-
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event.
tul 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 labor. 1t EMPLOYS corresnondents
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe,
and at the most important points on this CONT
nent, with a LIBERAL staff of writers and renort-
ers at home, regarding tull, 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 Tn that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will he
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
pondence so fast as the increase of its patronage
viii justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the New
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 day occurrences throughout
Europe, N Northern Africa and Western Asia,
with regular reports of the markets. the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. W nth good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his freside table, the American
farmer or artizan within davis ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
cedlng 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 measureably of those who 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 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 It's aspects, to Intemperance in what
ever form or degree, with its accessories to w 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 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 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 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 bVevery 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 Pacificr Believing that the goods of this
life are not y ct fairly distributed, and that no
one ready to work should ever famish in I'M
willing ldieness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which docs
not counteryail the dictates of eternal Morality
norwar upon that naturalright 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
that idlers, drltnkards, ibertines and profit
gates can never be other Gin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears alolt the great
truth that Prevention is better than Punish
ment-that the child trainedsdgin the way he
should go, will rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny paths of Vice 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
devotee OF no sect, we would fain 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 misapprehensions
have thrown into unnatural antagonism A
cotemporary once observed that he never knew
hard, grasping. niggardly employer who did
not hate The Tribune, nor a generous, large
souled, kindly one willing to live and let lives
who did not like If. We ask no higher praise
no warmer attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows Daily 5000 copies; Week
ly. 176,SOO copies Semi Weekly, $4,000 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 nSlavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite, our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Ad-
vertising far more lucrative but of our patron
az 1lxyx /
complain. EeZ "a SIS
Of late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the in
fuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark in it eagerly, others under polite con-
straint 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 sell. proclaimed
ability to serve as an antIdote 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
neighbors 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 counteraction. Weemploy