White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-02-18
TIE NEW YORK TRTBUNE--Is57-s.

CQlLOn Vas cOuTlcnCGu september VI INT
same year; its Semi-Weekly in May, 1875
IL was the first daily in America to issue dou
bic or eight-page sheet at low price, and it ha,
kept at least even with the foremost oft rival
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enterprise
which the great extension Of Railroads, and the
establishment Of the Telegraph system have
crowded into these last sixteen eventful years
No larger journal is afforded at so low price il
any quarter Of the world; none in America, nc
matter at what price Issued, pays an equal
amount, weekly or monthly, for intellectual Ia.
Dor. 1t employs correspondents regularly in the
leading capitals Of Europe, and at the most i'm.
portant points on this continent, with liberal
staff Of writer's and reporters at home, regarding
full, early and accurate information as the first
object of a Newspaper, and the timely and
thorough calculation thereof as the chief end Of
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune has
been and viii be conducted, extending and per.
fecing its correspondence so fast 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 success
ful, We shall very soon, at heavy cost to our
selves, and, we trust, 4 corresponding advantage
to 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 monetary as
poets and harvest prospects Of hither Europe.
With good atlas beside him and his daily pa
per on his iresde table, the American farmer or
artizan within days ride Of the city may then
study each evening the doinss Of the civilized
world throughout the day preceding; and il
seems hardly possible that any 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 measure
ably of those who live further inland; though,
where nails are unfreqHent, Semi Weekly, or
even Weekly paper may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of Po-
ltical Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Material
Rogress, and whatever may affect the Intelloc-
nnal, Moral, Social and PHYSICAL well-being Of
mankind, dogmatic Theology alone excepted.
Its leading idea is the honoring of honest useful
Work in whatever sphere or capacity, and the
consequent elevation of the Laboring Class in
knowledge, virtue and general esteem. II is
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all its as J..
poets, to lntemperancs in whatever form or de-
gree with its accessories, to War save in the de-
fence of Country and Liberty against actual in
vasiOn, and to every form Of Gambling, desiring
to see Production extended and encouraged,
while wild Speculation and useless Traffic are
curtailed, it fayors the policy of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariff policy which tends to increase the
that Of Bread to the artisan by reducing the dis
lance across which their respective products are
exchanged, and, of course, reducing the cost OF
their transfer. Regarding Fillibustehsm in all
its phases, and every form and device Of Ma
tional covetousness. uith 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
countrymen from projects Of aggrandizemeEt
abroad to enterprises of development and bene6-
cence at home, foremost among which we rank q
Railroad through the heart of our Territory to
connect the waters of the Atlantic with those OF
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life not yet fairly distributed, and that no one
ready to work should ever famish in unwilling
idleness, it lends an open ear to every suggos-
ton of Social improvement which does not coun-
tervail the dictates of eternal Morality nor war
upon that natural right Of every one to whatso-
ever he has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial must sink mankind into the chaos
and night of barbarism and universal squalor.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, libertines and prohigates can never be 9TH
er lin the main) than needy and wretched, 1t
bears alOt the great truth that Prevention is bet
ter than Punishment-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 true Education-Relig-
ious, Moral and Industrial as well as Intellectu-
ais 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
form of evil but those which seek personal ad.
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
10 oh flarr
aspirations, the harbinger of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom
circumstances or misapprehensions have thrown
into unnatural antagonism. A contemporary once
observed that he never knew a hard, grasping,
niggardly employer who did not hate the Tri-
bune, nor genuine, large-souled, kindly one,
willing to live and let live, who did not like it.
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attsstation.
The circulation Of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
176, 800 copies; Semi Weekly, Is, 900 cop
iesi California and European, 5000 copies;
Total, 230,SO 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 Human
Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more guar
ded and polite, our Daily issues would nov be
some thousands heavier, and our advertising far
more lucrative; but of our patronage generally
we have no reason, no wish 20 complain.
OF late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the inAu-
ence of the Postmasters, some of whom embark
in it eagerly, others under Political constraint;
while large number, we are happy, for the sake
of Human Nature, to state, refuse to be dragoon-
ed into It at ALL Still, we have been made to
feel the heavy hand of Power, and have doubt
less lost thousands of subscribers in consequence
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 ef them liv-
ing their selfproclaimed ability to serve rs an
antidote to the Trbune-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 70
it. In the open field of discussion, we fear moth.
ing; but in the tens of thousands OF rural
neighborhoods where the Post Master can induce |
many of his quiet neighbors to take the journal !
he recommends, We have already lost some pat |
r0ns, and expect to lose more as our subscrip- |
lions for this year expire. We appeal, therefore,
10 the hearty, faithful fearless advocates of Free
Labor and Free Sell throughout the Gland to take |
care that this official warfare on our circulation
De not prosecuted without CONFEDERATION. We
employ no travelling agents, for we will not con-
'ent to have the public harassed with the solicit
ations 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 term has