The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-04-07
The New York Tribune
1855

wss the first daily in America to issue double
or eight-rage sheet at a low price, and II mas
kent at least egen 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- |
TEN have crowded into these last sixteen event.
full years. No larger journal is afforded at go |
low price in any quarter of the world ; none
in America. no matter at what price issued, |
PAYS an equal amount, weekly or monthly, Tor |
intellectual labor. 1t employs correspondents |
regularly in the leading capitals of Europe, |
and at the most important points on this contl- |
nent, with liberal staff of writers and report
aly at home, regarding tull early and accurate
information as the first object Of Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as tie chief end OF IFS Editorials. In that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfeeting its CORES
rondcnce SO fas, as the increase OF its patronage
viii 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 a heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, a 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
tsry aspects and harvest prospects OF hlther
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his freside table, the American
farmer or artizan within days ride of the
city may then study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
cading; 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 ms asurcahlv of those who live fur
ther inland though, where mails are infre-
quc1it, Semi Weekly, or even Weekly pa
per- may sem 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. dognatic Theology alone
excertcd. It's leading idea is the honoring of
honest. uscfu! Work, i'll whatever sphere or ca
racitv, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Clals in knowledge, virtue and general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile TO Slavery
under all its aspects, to 1ntemperance 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 curtailed. it favors the policy
| of sustaining and divers:fying 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 coyetous-
| 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 benefccnce 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 finnish 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 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 Tin the main) than
needy and wrctched, it bears aloit 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 we'll as intellectual is the most
| effective temporal a,itidote to the errors and
woes of our race. Recognizing in the most
degraded specimen of II umanitv 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 debasemcnt 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 harbinger Of general con-
| cord betwecn Labor and Capital and among
those whom circumstances Or misapprehensions
have thrown into unnatural antaGonism. A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
hard. graspiEg. riggardly employer who did
| not rate L he Irlb.nc. nor a generous. large
soulcd. kindly one willing to live and let live,
who did not like it. We ask TO higher praise,
no warmer attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $4,000 copies Week
| ", 116S00 copies Semi Weekly. 16. 600 coz
les California and European, 5000 copies r
Total, 230,e00 copies That of the Semi
" eekly and W ekIy We believe to be exceeded
10y no other newspaper published in the world
that of the Daily falls behind that of some of
our cotcmrorari,s Had orr host iliiy 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
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
| Huthce OF the Postmasters, soIne of whom en-
Dark III IL eagerly. Others under polite con-
| straipt; While a large number we are hanpy.
| Tor the sake of Human Nature to state refuse
to be driven into it at all. Still. we have been
made 10 feel the heavy hand of Power, l. have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
| sequence. Pretexts to which no individual in
his private cal aeity would have stopped have
been relied on TO justify the stonpage of orr
papers within reach of their subscribers and
rightful owners, and their retention in the Post
| offce 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 antIsote to The Tribune
as to their political duty to promote at our
expense the dissemination of gazette of adverse
politics. We shall outlive this warfare, but we
do not affect indifference TO IT, In the omen
field of discussion. we fear nothing: but in the
tens of thousands of rural neighborhoods " here
the Postmaster can induce many of his uui,t
nelghbors to take the journal he recommends.
we have already lost some patrons and expect
to lose more as our subscriptions for this wear
expire. We appeal, therefore. to the hearty.
faithful, fearless advocates of Free Labor and
Free Soil throughout the land to take care that
this ofhclal warfare on circulation be not
prosecuted without counteraction. Weemploy
no travelling agents, for we will not consent to
nave 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 80 soon as his term has |
expired, Tor we will not haunt our patrons with
ouil> iof arrears which they may saw they nev /
~ ~ in'ehoed 10 incur, for papers which perhaps !