The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-09-01
The New York Tribune
1855

game year; its Semi W eekly in MAY. 1915. It
was the first daily in America to issue a double
or eight-page sheet at low price, and it has
kept at least even with the foremost of its rivals
III the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise. which the great extension of Railroads.
and the establishment of the TelegraDhic sys,
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event
tul 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. 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
els 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. Tn that
spirit. THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfectipg its 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 a 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 Preside table, the American
| farmer or artizan within a DAYS ride of the
city may then stcdy 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 profit of daily Journal The
same is true measureably of those W no live fur
| thor. Ir,1-,
quent, Semi Weekly, or even a Weekly pa
per. may seem sufficient ri
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
paclty, 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 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 wild Speculation and
useless Traffic are cilrtailed, it favors the policy
of sustaining and diycrsifTing Home Industry
by 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 Lane
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 al
| home, foremost among which we rank a Rail.
road through the heart of our territory to con-
| meet the waters of the Atlantic with those o.
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life are not yet fairly distributed, and that nc
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 countervail 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 profound consciousness
that idlers, drunkards, libertines and profit
gates can never be other Gin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears alott the great
truth that Prevention is better than Punish
ment-that the child trained up in the way he
should go, viii rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny paths, of V ice 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
forms of evil but those which seek personal adj
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 a generous, large
souled, kindly one willing TO live and let live,
who did not like it. 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. 176,000 copies; Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies =
Total, 230,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 cotemporaries Had our hostility to HUI
ma 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 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
| tiuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
| bark in it eagerly, others under polite con-
| straint; while a 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, ts have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence. Pretexts to which no individual in
his private capacity would have stopped have
beenrelied 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 antIdote to The Tribune
-as to their political duty to promote at our
expense the disseminationo 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 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