The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-19
The New York Tribune
1885,

oleion was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, 1915 1t
was the hrst daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet at low price, and it 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
ful 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 tull, 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. Tn that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
Pondcnce SO fast 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,
VIC snail 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 Afiicl and Western ASIA
with regular reports of the markets, the none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hithcr
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his fresidc table. the American
farmer or artizan within da7's ride OF the
cry may then Study each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the dav pre-
ceding {; ana 1t seems hardly possible that any
one VINO can read, but especially one who has
chiioreh 10 EDUCATE, viii longer dtay himself
'h@ PieascIe and profit of daily journal. The
sane IS trae measureably of those who live fur
Their inland though. where mails are infrc-
quent, Semi eekly, or even Weekly pa
per, may seam 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
pacity, and the consequent elevation of The La
boring Class in knowledge. virtue AMI general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects to Intemperance in what
ever FORM or degree, with it's 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 curtaied it favors the policy
of sustaining and diversifyng Home Industry
| ~ d ISL Initiating dLlN "a policy winch
tends TO Increase the price of Grain to the far
mer, while diminishing that of Bread to tho
artizan, by reducing the distance across which
their respective products are exchanged. and,
OF coarse. reducing the cost of their transfer
Regarding Finibusterism in all its phases, and
every form and device of National coyetous-
ness, with unqualified adherence as the ane
of Republics and in their triumph the grave of
equal humsn 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-
| meas 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-
| willing idleness. it lends an epen ear to every
| suggestion of Social improvement whi6 h does
not counteryail the dictates of eternal Morality
,ser WIZ 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 MIG ht of barbarism and uni
versal squalor. With profound consciousness
| that idlers, drunkards, Ebertines 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 ST the thorny paths of Vice and Crime
that a true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
/ Industrial az we'll as Intellectual is the NEST
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 Off Sect we would fain be she inter-
| prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirat ons, the harbinger of general con-
eerd between Laber and Capital, and among
those whom circumstances or mTsapprehensions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
| contemporary once observed that he never knew
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 $50 900 copies week
| ly. l76.800 copies; Semi-W eekfy, $4,000 cop
| les; California and European. 5000 copies =
Total, 230,sO0 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
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, Ae y ISL, to
! conpfaia. ~
| Of late, concerted effort has been made to
diminish orr rural circulation through the IN
| fuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark in il eagerly, others under polite con-
| straint 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 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 OH their self-proclamed
ability to serve as antIeOte to The Tribune
las TO their political duty to promote at our
expense the dissemination of gazettes OF adverse
politics We shall outlve this warfare, but we
Go not affect indifference to it. In the oren
field Of discussion we fear nothing; but III TIC
tens Of thousands of rural neichborhoods 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. Weempioy
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 10 our Weekly or Semi
Weekly from our books so soon as his term has
expired, for we will not haunt our patrons with