The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-03-10
The New York Tribune
1862

kept at least even with the foremost OF Its rivals
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension of Rallroads'
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys-
tenn have crow ded into these last sixteen event.
full wears. No larger journal is afforded at so
low price in any quarter of the world none
in America no matter at what price issued,
paws an equal amount, weekly or monthly, Tor
Intellectual labor It employs correspondents
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe,
and at the most important points on this contl-
nent with Ii beral staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding tull. early and accurate
information as the first object of Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough elucidation there
of as the chief end OF its Editorials. In that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted extending and perfecting its cores
pondence so fast as the increase fits patronage
viii 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 heavy cost to ourselves
and We trust, a corresponding advantage TO
our readers publish each morning synopsis
of the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africt and Western Asia,
with regular reports of the markets, the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hlther
| Europe With a good atlas beside him and his
| daily paper on his freside table. the American
! farmer or artizan within a 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, viii longer deny himself
| the pleasure and prof of daily journal. The
same is true me asureably of those who live far
| ther inland though. where mails are infre-
quent, Semi Weekly, or even a 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 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 its aspects, to Intemperance i'll what
over form or degree, with its accessories, to War
| save in the defense of Country and Liberty
| against actual Invasion, and 10. every form of
! Gambling. Desiring to see Production extend
| ed and encouraged, while wild Speculation and
useless Traffic curtailed, it faTors the policy
of sustaining and diversifying Home Industry
| by a discriminating Tariff - 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 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 country
| men from projects of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT abroad to
enterprises of development and benefcence at
home, foremost among which we rank Rail-
| road through the heart of 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 I'M
| willing ldleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countervail 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
| that idlers, drunkards, libertines and profit
gates can never be other lin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears aloit 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 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 reyerently cherished, not
| ruthlessly trOdden out, we have charity for all
| forms 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-
| prefer to each other Of mems better impulses
| and aspirations, the harbnger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital and amorg
those whom circumstances or niisapprehensons
| have thrown into unnatural antagonisln A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
hard, graspng, niggardly employer who did
not hate The Tribune: nor generous. large
souled, kindly one willing to live and let live,
who did not like it. We ask no higher praise,
no warmer attcstation. .et :. .,..f
| The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $32, copies; Week
| ~. 176,S00 copies Semi Weekly, $4,000 cop
| les; California and European, 5000 copies =
| Total. 23O,800 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 host llity 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 farmore lucrative but of our patron
| age generally we have no reason, no wish, to
complain. ---e.-s-7- -,e- --r z~s "a
of late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the i'll
fuence of the Postmasters. some of whom en-
bark III it eagerly, others under polite con-
straint while large number we are happy
for the sake of Human n azure. to state, refuse
to be driven into it at ALL Still we hive been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, d have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence Preteyts to which no Individual in
his private caracity would have stopped have
been relied on TO Justify the stoppaee 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 scllooled by rival journals
several of them living on their self proclaimed
ability to serve as am antIdote TO The Tribune
-as to their political duty to promote at our
expense the dissemination of gazette of adverse
politics. We shall outiive 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 W 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 wear
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 We employ
no travelling agents. for we Will not consent to
have the public harassed with the solicitations
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 |
expired, for we will not haunt our patrons with |
ouns for arrears which they may say they new |
er intended to incur, for papers which perhaps |
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