The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-04-14
The New York Tribune
1855

d;tiou was commenced iii September OF the |
game wear; its Semi Weekly in May, lo4o. II
was the first daily in America to issue douple
or eight-page sheet at low price, and It has
kent at least even with the foremost OF It's rivals
in the rapid expansion Of Newspaper enter
prise. which the great extension OF Railroads.,
aud the establishment of the Telegraphc sys-
ten 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, 10 matter at what price issued
paws 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 CONT
nclt with liberal staff of writers and report
eIs at home, regarding tull, early and accurate
information as the first object of New sp iper,
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as the chief end OF its Editorials. In that
spirit THE TRIBUNE has been and viii be
conducted, extending and perfeeting IFS cores
ondencc 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,
VIC shall very soon, at a heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, corresponding advantage to
our readers. publish each morning synopsis
of the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia,
with regular reports of the markets, the none
tarv aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his fr9side 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 a daily journal. The
same is true mt asurcably of those who live fur
ther inland though, where mails are infrc-
quent Seni-Weekly. or even a Weekly pa
Fer. may se2m 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
excepted. It's leading idea is the honoring of
| honest. useful Work, III whatever sphere or ca
! pacity, and the consequent elevation of the La
| boring Glass in knowledge, virtue ant! general
| esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile 10 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 curailed, it favors the policy
OF sustaining and diversifying Home Industry
by discriminating Tariff "a policy which
|
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 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 orr 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 orr 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 I'M
| willing idleness, it lends an opei. ear to every
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not counterval the dictates of eternal Morality
nor war upon that natural right of every one 10
| whatsoever he has fairly produced or honestly
acquired, whose denial must sink m:nkind
into the chaos and night of barbarism and uni
versal squalor. Wi a profound consciousness
that idlers, drl naza ds, libertincs and profit
| gates can never be other lin the ma!n) than
needy and wretched. it bears alo1t 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 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 sparl,
| which shossld be reverently 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 OF 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 between Labor and Capital and among
| those whom circumstances or misapprehei,sions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
| contemporary once observed that he never knew
hard graspng. niggardly employer who did
not hate The Tribune. nor generous, large
souled. kindly one willing to live and let live,
who did not like it. We ask no higher praise,
! no warmer attestaton.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily $50 900 copies Week
| ly, l76.SO0 copies Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies =
Total, 230,sO0 copies. That of the Semi
| Weekly and Weekly we believe to be exceeded
Ly no other newspaper published in the world
that of the Daily falls behind that of some of
ouI contemporaries Had our host ility to HUI
man Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
| guarded and polite, our Daily issues would
now re some thousands heavier and our Ad-
'errising far more lucrative but of our patron
| age generally we have 10 re;7on, no wish, to
complain.
Ct late, concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the i'll
| fluence OF the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark i'll it eagerly. others under polite con-
| stralRt; while large number we are happy
| for the sake of Human AZURE. to state, refuse
| to be driven into it at all Still we have been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, 4 have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
| sequence. Pretexts to which no individual In
his private caracity 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 as antIsote to The Tribune
AS TO their political duty TO promote at our
| expense the dissemination of gazett of adverse
/ politics. We shall outlive this warfare, but We
/ do not affect indifference to it. In the open
] heid OF discussion, we fear nothing; but in the
tens OF thousands of rural neighborhoods here
the Postmaster can induce many of his quiet
nelghbors to take the journal he recommends.
we have already lost some patrons and exrect
| 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 ofheial warfare circulation be not
| prosecuted without counteracton. 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 nan,e
/ of each subscriber to our Weekly or Semi.
weekly from our books so soon as lis term has