The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-16
The New York Tribune
I 1859
FESHE T.

Il ON the 10th Of April, 1S4l. It's Weekly e
dItion was commenced III September of the
same year; It's Semi " eekly in May, 1915. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue a double
or eight-page sheet at low price, and it has
kept at least even with the foremost Of its rivals
Ill 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
tul years. No larger jorrnal is afforded at so
| low price III 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 CONT
nent. with liberal staff of writers and report
ers at home, regarding tull, early and accurate
information as the first object Of a Newspaper.
and the timely and thorough calculation there
OF as the chief end OF IFS Editorials. In that
| spirit, I'll h TRlBUN e has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
pondence SO FAST as the increase of its patronage
viii justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the NV
Grid by the magnetic wire prove successful
"" shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust. corresponding advantage to
oof reaoefs' publish each morning Synopsis
| OF the preceding DAYS occurrences throughout
/
with regular reports of the markets. the none
| tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
| Europe. 18th good atlas beside him and his
| daily paper on his fireside table the American
farmer or artizan within days ride OF the
| city may then strdv each evening the doings
OF the civilized world throughout the dav pre-
ceding; and it seems hardly possible that any
one who can read but especially one who has
| children to educate, Will longer depy himself
the pleasure and profit of daily journal The
same is trae measureahly of those who live fur
Their inland though, where mails are 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
! Te''i2! trogress. aud 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, iii whatever sphere ca
| racity, and the consequent elevation of the La
| boring Glass in knowledge, virtue am, general
esteem. 1t IS necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects. to Intemperance in what
ever form or degree, with its accessories to w ar
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 cultalcd, it favors the policy
OF sustaining and divels;fying 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
artizan. by reducing the distance across which
their respective products are exchanged. and,
OF course. reducing tie cost of their transfer
Regarding FillibUsterism in all its phases, and
every form and device of National covetous-
ness, with unqualified adherence as the ane
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
| rnen 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-
| 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-
willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
sugge stion Of Social improvement which does
| not connteryal 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 iders, drunkards, libertinps and profit
gates can never be other lin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears alott the great
truth that Prevention is better than Punish
inent-that the child trained up in the way he
should go. W i'll rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny paths OF Vice and Crime
that a true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
In tustral as well as Intellectual is the most
eff Give temporal antidote to the errors and
woes of our race. Recognizing in the most
degraded specimen Of Humanity divine spark
which should he reverently cherished. not
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for all
forms of evil but those which seek personal ad-
vantage through the debasemeDt OF our fellow
| beings The champion of no class OF caste, the
! devofee 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 misapprehensions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism
| cotemporarv 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 j.. We ask no higher praise
/ no warmer attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
| time as follows Daily $50 900 copies '.eek-
| ly, l16 500 copies; Semi Weekly, 5000 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 ,litv to HUI
ma Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more
guarded and polite, our Daily issues would
now be some thousands heavier and our Ad-
yertising farmers lucrative; but OF our patron
age generally we have no reason, no WISH to
complain
Of late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the III
fiuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
bark III it eagerly, Others under polite con-
straint: while a large number we are happy,
1,y tae sake of Human Nature, to state, refuse
TO he driven in" il at all. Sti1, we have been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, d have
cccotless lost thousands of sunsc,r!5; III con-
sequence. Pretexts TO which no individual il,
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
Ottlce till their value was destroyed. Post
masters hare been schooled by rival journals
several of them living OH their self proclaimed
ability to serve as an antIsote to The Tribune
AS to their political duty to promote at our
exrense the dissemination of gazettes of adverse
politics. We shall outliye this warfare. but we
do not affect Indifference to it. In the open
held of discussion, We fear nothing but in the
tens OF thousands of rural neighborhoods y 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 orr subscriptions for this year
exrire. 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 viii not consent TO |
have the public harassed with the solicitations |
of strangers in our behalf We strike the name
Of each subscriber TO our Weekly or Semi |