The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
The New York Tribune
1865


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 Newspap enter
Prise, which the great extension of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Ielegraphc sys-
TEN have crowded into these last sixteen event
tel 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 or monthly. for
intellectual labor IT employs correspondents
regularly Ill the leading capitals of Europe,
ana al the most important points on this conti-
nent. with a liberal staff of writers and report
els at home, regarding tull 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. Tn that
spirit, III Il TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted. extending and pe,fectng IFS cores
rondence so fast as the increase of its patronage
VIII justify the expense. Sho: ID the current
attempt to connect the Old with the N.w
" ORD by the magnetic Wire prove successful.
we shall very soon, at heavy cost 70 ourselves
and we trust. corresponding advantage to
orr readers. publish each morning Synopsis
81 the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe. Northern Africa and Western Asia,
with regular reports of the markets, the mone-
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe With good atlas beside him and his
| caily paper on his fireside table. the American
| farmer or artzan within a DAYS ride o! the
city may then strdv each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
cedine; and it seems hardly possible that any
one who can read; but especially one who has
children to educate, will longer dtny himself
the pleasure and profit of daily journal Tie
same IS trae mcasurcahly of those who live fur
| ther inland /; though, where mails are infre-
1 OQoDt. Semi " paE lv n WaaEIv ma
per. may seem sufficient
IHE 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
eXcel ted lis leading idea is the honoring of
honest. usefrl Work, in whatever sphere
| rar!F, and he consequent elevation of the La
'of ng Ciass n knowledge, viltue an,. general
esteem i is necessarily hostile TO Slavery
rn@e" All IS aspects, to Intemperance in what
ever i3:i.. Or degree, with its accessories. TO War
save III tie s'efense of Country and Liberty
| aganst actual INVASION, and to every form of
Gambling. Desiring to sec Production extend
ed and encouraged. while wild Speculation and
useless Traffic are crrtailed. it fvors the policy
OF sustaining and divers.fying Home Industry
| by discriminating Tariff "a policy which
tencs TO increase the price of Grain to the far
|
artizan, by reducing the distance across which
their respective products are exchanged. and,
OF course, reducing the cost Of their transfer
Regarding Fillibrsterism in all its phases and
every form and device of National covetous-
ness, wit, unqualified adherence as the anc
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 ffori i"G;ects of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT abroad to
! nnfnr S0S Cff or
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 famish in IN
willing idleness. it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countervai1 the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war uIon that natural right of every one to
whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly
| acquired, whose denial must sink mcnkind
into the chaos and night of harbarism and uni
versai sqnalor With a profound consciousness
/ that idlers, drurka-ds, libertincs and profit
| gates can never be other Gin the main) than
needy and wretcIed. it bears aloit the great
| truth that Prevention is better than Punish
laeit-that the child trained up in the way he
should go. will rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny ratlls of Vice and Crime
!
In 'ustrial rs well as Intellectual is the most
eff ctive temporal al.tidote to the errors and
woes of or race. Recognizing in the most
| degraded specimen Of Humanity divine spark
| which should be reverently cherished. not
ruthlesslv trodden out, we have charity for all
/ forms of evil bot those which seek personal add
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
/ beings. The champion of no class or caste, tie
/ devotee of no Sect we would fan be the inter-
| fer tn nopb nj hpy of baffpy lScc
aud aspirat ons, the harbinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
/ those whom circumstances or misaprrehelsions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism
| Contemporary once observed that he never knew
a hard. graspirg, niggarGly employer who did
not bate The Tribune. nor generous. large
souled. kindly one willing TO live and let live,
! who did not like i. We ask no higher praise
10 warmer attesat;on.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows Daily $4,000 copies; eek
~. 176S30 copies Semi-Weekly. $4,000 COP
les; California and European. 5000 copies =
| Total. 220, $50 cories. 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 cotemrorari.s Had our hostility To HUI
ma Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite. our Daily issues would
|
veItising far morc lucrative but of our PATRON
age generally we have no reason, 10 wish, to
| complain.
| CT late, concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the i'll
| flucnce of the Postmasters. some Of whom Co.
bark in it eagerly, Others. rra ,..; -
straint; Will lar number we are happy
! saKe of Human Nature. to state, ref Sc
to be driven into II at all. Still. we have been
made to feel the heavy hand Of Power, d have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence Prctexts to which no individual in
his private caEacity would have stopped have
been relied ar = srs.ify the stoppage of our
rarers = 4iI reach of their subscribers and
| ricEtfrl <ss as,. their retention in the Post
Office till asfr r-ire was destroyed. POST
masters haze ceen schooled by rival journals
| several of them living on their self proclaimed
/ ability to serve as an antIe ote to The Tribune
AS to their political duty to promote at our
exrense the dissemination of gazettns OF adverse
politics. We shall outlive this warfare. but We
90 not affect Indifference to it. In the oren
! field of discussion, we fear nothing; but III the
tens of thousands of rural neighborhoods here
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
exrire. 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 coEntt raction. WeemTloy
| no travelling agents FOR we viii not consent To
| have the public hagssscd with the solicitations
of strangers in our d l;.lf. We strike the name
| of each subscriber to Weekly or Semi
| Weekly from our books SO soon as his term has
| expired, for we Will not !aunt our patrons with
duns for arrears which they may say they new
er intended TO incur for Papers which perhaps
ILL., .,ea,. rood we relu for the renewal Of nr