The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-25
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| Vi TRIBtJa 3 was first Issued as Daily
4 on the lOtl Of April, 1871 Us Weekly E.
ditIon was commenced IN SCI te.nber Of the
same year; lis Semi Wee}lv III May. 1915. It
was the frst daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet at low price, and it has
KEPT az least even with the foremost Of It's rivals
IN the rapid expansion of Neysnarf.r enter
prise, which the great extension Of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telaera,,hie svs-
tenn nave crowded into these last sixteen event
ful years: 0 larger journal is afforded at so
low q pfice 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,
ana a. me most important points on this CONT
nent, with liberal staff of writers and rcnort-
els at home, regarding tut, early and accurate
information as the first object Of a Newspaper.
and the timely and thorough elucidation there
| OF as the chief end of its Editorials. In that
| spirit, TIL TRIBUN E has been and will he
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
pondenee 50 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 successful.
| we shall very soon, at heavy cost 10 ourselves
and we trust, a corresponding advantage TO
our readers. publish each morning a svnopsis
OF the preceding day occurrences throughout
Europe, n orthern Africa and Western Asia.
| with regular reports Of the markets, the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects Of bither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
| daily paper on his freside table, the American
farmer OF artizan within a days ride of the
cry may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day l,re-
ceding.; and it seems hardly possible that any
one who can read, but especially one who has
children to educate, Will longer dsny himself
the pleasure and profit of daily journal The
same is true n1casureahly Of those Who live fur
theT 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
terlal Progress, and whatever may affect the
intellectual, Mora. Social and Physical we'll
being OF mankind. dogmatic Theology alone
excepted lis leading idea is the honorino of
honest, rseFu: Work, i'll 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 in what
ever form or degree, with its accessories, to " 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 lid Speculation and
useless Traffic arc curtailed, It favors the policy
Of sustaining and divcrs;fying Home Industry
| by discriminating Tariff = Policy which
tends to increase the price Of Grain to the far
| mer, Willie 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 tillibrsteTism in ali lis phases, and
every form and device Of National covetous-
ness, with unqualified adherence as the lane
of h1icc I,
equal human rights, we seek by every means
to woo and win the attention Of our country
men from projects Of aggrandizement abroad to
enterprises OF Development and benefcence at
home, 1oremos! 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 un-
| willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion Of Social improvement which does
not countcrvail the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war upon That natural right ofevery 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 a profound consciousness
| that idlers drunkards lbeTtines and profit
gates can never be other Gin the main) than
needy and wretchod, it bears aloit the great
u Hlil dtt Siitlbtl Is DGttGE liidu 1 HIlSD-
ment-that tie child trained up in the way he
should co. will rarely in after years desert that
way for the thoTny 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 a divine spark
which should be reverently cherished, not
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for all
| forms Of evil but those which seek personal ad-
vantage through the debasement of cur fellow
beings. The champion OF no class or caste, the
devotee ofn sect, We would fain be the inter
prefer to each other Of mems better impulses
| and aspirations, the larbinger Of general con-
| cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or nnisapprehensions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism. 4
contemporary once observed that ne never knew
a hard, grasping, niggardly employer who did
| not hate The Tribune, nor a generous, large
| souled. kindly one willing to live and let live
who did not like It. We ask no higher praise,
no warmer attostaticn.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $4,000 copies Week
| ly. 1850 copies; Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies :
Total, 230,800 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 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-
yertising far more lucrative but of our patron
age generally we have no reason, no wish, to
| complain.
OF late, concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the in
fiuence 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 hive been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, & 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 self proclaimed
| ability TO serve as an antIGote to The Tribune
las 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 apreal, 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 counteracton Weemploy
no travelling agents. for we viii not consent to
have the public harassed with the solicitations
of strangers in our behalf We strike tla name