The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-04
The New York Tribune
1853

-. - ~ 49, VI APIll, lo4I. It's W eeklV e.
dltion was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in Nav. 1915 It
was the hfst daily in America to issue a double
or elght-page sheet at a low price, and it has
KEEP, at least even with the foremost of its rivals
III Inc RAPID expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension of Railroads
and the establishment Of the Teleoranb;c sve,
tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event-
iul 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.
paySS aii q,ial amount, weekly OF monthly. for
intellectual labor. 1t EMPLOYS corresnoyde,,ts
regularly in the leading capitals of E,rone
and at the most important points on this CONT
nent, with liberal staff of writers and renort-
ets az .fcne, regarding tull, early and accurate
Information as the first object of a Newspaper.
ana The timely and thorough elucidation there
OF as the chief end of its Editorials. In that
spirit, III TRIBUNE has been and will he
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
Ponoehce so last as the increase gifts patronage
wIll JUSTLY the expense. Should the current
a al 10 connect the Old with the New
World by the magnetic wire prove successful
we shall very soon, at heavy cost TO ourselves
ana we trust, corresponding ADVANTAGE 70
orr readers, publish each morning synopsis
Oh the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia
with regular reports of the markets the none
taly aspects and harvest prospects of bitber
Europe With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his freside table, the American
farmer or artizaD within DAYS ride of the
cary may then study each evening the doings
OF me civilized world throughout the day pre-
cedlng and II seems hardly possible that any
one who can read, but especially one who has
children to educate, Will longer denv himself
the pleasure and profit of a daily journal. The
same Is true mcasurcably of those who live fur
thef inland; though, where mails are infre-
queht, Semi cekly, OF even a Weekly pa
per, may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of
foiltlcal Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Ma
terlal Progress, and whatever may affect the
intellectual, Moral, Social and PHYSICAL we'll
pelng OF mankind. dogmatic Theology alone
excepted. lis leading idea is the honoring of
lohest' usefu! Work, i'll 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 III 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 ctlrtailed. it fayors the polcy
OF sustaining and diversfving 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
srtlzall' by reducing the distance across which
lhelr 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 RePublcs 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
nome, 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 un-
Wiling ldleness it lends an open ear to every
suggestion OF Social improvement which does
not counteryail 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 Hbertines and nrofi
gates can never be other Tin the main) than
needy and wretchcd it bears aloft 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 reverently cherished, not
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for all
forms of evil but those whichse personal adj
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The champion of no class or CASTE the
deyotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirat ons, the harbinger of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital and among
those whom circumstances or misappreheIsions
have thrown into unnatural antagonism A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
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 attesation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $32 900 copies Week
ly. l76.60O copies; Semi Weekly, $4,000 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 contemporaries. Had our host ility to HUI
ma nSlavery 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 ourpatron-
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 a 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, q 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 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 will not consent to
have the public harassed with the solicitations
of strangers in our behalf We strike the name
nf oacb I,-o,-ihor f1, onr Wnnlrl,r or So,nai.