The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-02
The n eEY ork Tribune
1863

5NHE TRIBUNE was first issued as a Daily
Il on the 10th Of April, 1871. It's Weekly e.
dition was commenced in September OF the
same year; its Semi Weekly In May, 1915. Ii
was the first daily in America TO issue double
or eight-page sheet at 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
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 labor. 1t employs correspondents
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe,
and at the most-hnportant points ON this CONT
nent. with a 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, THE TRIBUNE has been and viii be
conducted, exteudfng and perfecting its cores
pondence so fass 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 a heavy cost to ourselves
@ld VIC u uot, d corresponding advantage W
our readers publish each morning synopsis
of the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia,
with regular REPORTS of the markets, the none
tary aspects al harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper ol-his ireside table. the American
farmer or artizaa within DAYS ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
of the civilized world throughout the day pre-
ceding and itseems 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 a daily journal The
same is true measureably of those who live fur
Their inland though, where mails are intre-
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 O.
! honest, useful Work, in whatever sphere or ca
| pacity, and tfaconsequent elevation of the La
| boring Glass ip knowledge, virtue and genera
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects. to Intemperance in what
ever form or degree, with its accessories, to Wa
save in the defense of Country and Liberty
against actus4 invasion, and to every form o
Gambling. Desiring to see Production extend
| ed and encouraged, while wild Speculation stnC
useless Traffic are curtailed it favors the polio,
of sustaining and diversifying Home lndustr,
by discriminating Tariff - policy whicl
tends TO increase the price of Grain to the far
mer, while diminishing that of Bread to tn
artizan, by reducing the distance across whic
their respective products are exchanged, and
of course, retfacing the cost of their transfer
Ill
every form and device of National coyetous
ness, with unqualified adherence as the ban
of Republics-and in their triumph the grave
equal human rights, we seek by every mean
to WOO and win the attention of our country
men from projects of ACKNOWLEDGMENT abroad t
i enterprises of development and beneffeence 6
home, foremost among which we rank a Rail
road through the heart of our territory 70 con
| meet the waters of the Atlantic with those
the Pacific. Believing that the goods ofthi
life are not, yet fairly distributed and that n
one ready to work should ever famish In IN
| willing idleness, it lends an open ear to ever
suggestion of Social improvement which doe
not countervail the dictates of eternal Moralit
nor war upon that natural right of every one
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestl
into the chaos and night of barbarisra and ami
versal squalor. With profound CONSCIOUSNESS
that iders, drunkards, hbertines and profit
gates can never be other Gin the main} tina
needy and wretched, it bears alott the gres
truth that Prevention is better than Punish
ment-tllat the child trained up in the way h
should go, will rarely in after years desert thu
way for the thorny paths of Vice and Crime
that true Observation-Disclosures, Moral an
Industrial as well as Intellectual is the mos
effective temporal antidote to the errors an
woes of our race. Recognizing in the Tae
degraded specimen of Humanity a divine spar
which should be reverently cherished, ne
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for a
forms of evil but those which seek personal &C
vantage through the debasement of our felEo'
beings. The champion of no class or caste, I'll
devotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter
prefer to each other of mems better impulst
and aspirations, the harbinger of general cor
cord between Labor and Capital, and anon
those whom circumstances OF misapprehensior
have thrown into unnatural antagonism.
contemporary once observed that he never kne1
hard. grasping niggardly employer who di
not hate The Tribune, nor a generous, laT9
souled, kindly one willing to live and let live
who did not like if. We ask no higher praise
no warmer attcstation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at thi
time as follows: Daily $780, copies Week
! ly, 176900 copies Semi Weekly, 5000 COP
les; California and European, 5000 copies :;
Total, 230,800 copies. That of the Semi
Weekly and Weekly We believe to be exceede
by no other newspaper published in the worl
that of the Daily falls behind that of some
our eotemporaries Had our hostility to HI
5 man Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been MOI
guarded and polite, our Daily issues woul
now be some thousands heavier and CIR Ad
vertising far more lucrative; but of our patron
ago generally We have nc reason, no wish, t
complain.
OF late, concerted effort has been made t
diminish our rural circulation through the i'll
huence 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, refus
to be driven into it at all. Still, we have bee
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, d hav
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con
sequence. Pretexts to which no individual i
his private capacity would have stopped hav
been relied on to justify the stoppage of on
| papers within reach of their subscribers an
rightful owners, and their retention in the Pos
Office till their value was destroyed. Post
masters have been schooled by rival Journals
several of them living on their self proclaime'
ability to serve as an antIdote to The Tribun
--as to their political duty to promote at on
expense the dissemination of gazettes OF adyers
politics. We Shall outlive this warfare, but W
do not affect indifference to it. In the opel
field of discussion, we fear nothing but in tn
tens of thousands of rural neighborheods her
the Postmaster can induce many of his quie
neighbors to take the journal he recommends
we have already lost some patrons, and expec
to lose more as our subscriptions for this yea
expire. We appeal, therefore, to the hearty
faithful, fearless advocates of Free Labor ant
Free Soil throughout the land to take care tina
this official warfare on our circulation be no