The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-26
The New Z ork Tribune
1855

FEyHE TRIBUNE was first issued as Daily /
L on the 10th of April, 1871. Its Weekly e.
dition was commenced in September of the |
same year; its Semi eekly in May lS45. 1t |
was the first daily in America to issue a double |
or eight-page sheet at a low price, and it has |
kept at least even with the foremost Of its rivals
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper onter-
prise. which the great extension Of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys.
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event
full 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 equal amount, weekly or monthly. for
intellectual labor. 1t employs correspondents
regularly in the leading Capitals of Europe,
and at the most important points on this CONT
nent, with liberal staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding full, 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. Tn that
| spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
| conducted, extending and perfectinc It's cores
pondence 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 successful.
| we shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust. 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 none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his freside table, the American
| farmer or artlzan within a days ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the dav pre-
ceding; and it seems hardly possible that any
one 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 mcasureahly of those who live fur
ther inland though, where mails are infre-
quent, a 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. Its leading idea is the honoring of
honest, useful Work, III whatever sphere or ca
racity, ard the consequent elevation of the La
boring Glass in knowledge, virtue and general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile 10 Slavery
under all its aspects. to Intemperance in what
ever form or degree, with its accessories, to War
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 vie Speculation and
useless Traffic are curtailed it favoiS TIE policy
of sustaining and diyersifying Home Industry
by a discriminating Tariff "a 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 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 I'M
willing idleness, 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
nent--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 reverently cherished not
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for all
| -cfo IL,
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The champion of no class or caste, the
devotee of no sect, we would fan be the inter
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirations, the harbinger of general con-
cord between 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 Tribune, nor generous, large
souled, kindly one willing to live and let live,
who did not like if. We ask no higher praise,
no warmer attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows Daily $4,000 copies Week
ly. 176,800 copies; Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European. 5000 copies =
Total, 23O,S00 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
man Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite, our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our ADJ
vertising far more lucrative but of our ratro.,-
age generally we have no reason, no wish 70
complain. ' W
VI late concerted EFFORT has been made to
aiinlii'i or raral circulation through the in
0.'ce u the Postmasters, some of whom en-
, lark i'll it eagerly, others under polite con-
stralnt; 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, d 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 stopp3ge of our
papers within reach of their subscribers and
rightful owners, and their retention in Inc 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 antIdote to The Tribune
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 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 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. Weemploy
no travelling agents, for we viii not consent to