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

rTNHE TRIBUN Z was first issued as a Daily
| on the 10th of April. 1871. Its Weekly e.
dition was commenced i'm September OF the
same year: its Semi Weekly in May, 1915. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet Mt a low price, and 1t has
kept at least even with the foremost Of its rivals
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise which the great extension of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys-
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event.
full years. No 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 conti-
nent, with liberal staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding iull, early and accurate
information as the first object of Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as the chief end of its Editorials. In that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has l.ct.n and will be
conducted, extending AID perfecting IFS cores
Pondence SO fast As the increase OF its patronage
VIII justify me expense. Should the current
attemr,, TO connect the Old with the New
:, orld by the magnetic wire prove successful,
We shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, corresponding advantage to
of the preceding days occurrences throughput
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia.
with regular reports of the markets, the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hlther
Europe With good atlas. beside him and his
daily paper on his fireside table. the American
farmer OF artizan within a days ride OF the
city may then study each evening the doings
of the civilized world throughout the day pre-
eeding; and it seems hardly possible that any
one who can read. but especially one who has
children to educate, will longer deny himself
:ha pleasure and profit of daily journal. The
same is true measureably of those who live fur
Their inland though. where mails a-c 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. lis leading idea is the honoring of
honest. usefu! 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 Intcmperance 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 curtailed, it fayors the policy
of sustaining and diversifying Home Industry
by discriminating Tariff "a policy which
tends to increase the price of Grain to the far
ner, 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 l;.::SSes. and
f,r,, of of.
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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 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 tamish in TN
willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countersail the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war upon that natural right of every one to
whatsoever lie 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. Gbertines and profit
gates can never be other lin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears alolt 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 Y ice and Crime
that a true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
Industrial as well as Intellectual is the most
effective temporal antidotc 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 adj
vantage through the dcbasemcnt 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 aspirat ons. the harhinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or misapprehcisions
have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
contemporary once observed that lie never knew
q hard, grasrins, 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 attcctation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $32. 600 copies Week
ly. 1860 copies Semi Weekly. 5000 cop
les California and European. 5000 copies :
Total. 230,otO copies. That of the Semi
Weekly AID Weekly we believe To be exceeded
by no other ewspaper 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 patron
age generally we have no reason no WISH to
complain.
OF late, a concerted cffolt has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the in
tiucnce of the Postmastcrs, some of whom en-
bark i'll ii eagerly, others under polite con-
straiIt; Will! large number we are happy,
for the sake of Human Nature. to state, refuse
TO be driven into it at all. Still. we have been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, &; have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers III con-
sequence Pretexts to which no individual in
his private capacity would have stopped ha, e
been relied ON TO Justify the stoppage of o, r
rightful owners, and their retention in the Post
Office till their value was destroyed. Post
masters have been schcoled by rival Journals
several of them living on their self proclaimed
ability to serve an antIaotc to The Tribune
| AS to their political duty TO promote at our
expense the dissemination CO ct a41 e;
om,ics. We sh.ll. oontlive this warfare, but we
do not affect indifference to it. In the OPEN
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 fer 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