White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-18
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE-- 1875

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THE NEW YORK TRlBUNE--lsS7-s
HIHE TRIBUNE was first issued as Dali
i lyon the 10th of April, -le4l- Us week
ly edition was commenced in September Oh tne
same year; its Semi-Weekly in May, le4S.-
II was the first daily in America to issue aou-
HE or ei0ht-page sheet at a low price, andlt mas
ent at least even with the foremost OF its rlIals
in the rapid EXPANSION of Newspaper enterprise,
which the great extension OF Railroads. anu tne
establishments of the Telegraph system nave
crowded into these last sixteen eYentlui years
No larger jounali ia afforded at SO low Prlce n
any quarter of the world; none in America, no
matter at what price Issued, pays an equal
amount, weekly or monthly, for intellectual IA
nor. II EMPLOYS correspondents regularly IN the
leading capitals Of Europe, and at the most In.
portant points on this continent, with hoeral
staff of writer's and reporters at home, regaralng
full, early and accurate Interpolation as the INST
object Of Newspaper; and the timely anu
thorough calculation thereof as the ehleI emu OF
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune mas
been and will be conducted, extending ana per-
fecting its correspondence so fast as tne
of its patronage will Justify the expense. should
the current attempt to connect the Old with the
New World by the magnetic wire prove success
full, we shall very soon, at heavy cost TO our
selves 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 monetary as
poets and harvest prospects of hither Europe
With good atlas beside him and his daily pa
per on his iresidc table, the American farmer or
artizan within DAYS ride of the city may then
study each evening the doinss of the civilized
world throughout the day preceding; and II
seems hardly possible that any 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 measure
ably of those who live further inland; though,
where mails are unfrequent, Semi Weekly, or
even a Weekly paper may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions Of Po-
lihcal Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Material
Progress, and whatever may affect the lntellee-
tual, Moral, Social and Physical well-being OF
mankind, dogmatic Theology alone excepted:
It's leading idea is the honoring of honest useful
Work in whatever sphere or capacity, and the
consequent elevation of the Laboring Glass in
knowledge, virtue and general esteem. 1t IS
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all its as
poets, to Intemperancs in whatever form or de-
gree with its accessories, to War save IN the de-
fence of Country and Liberty against actual IN
vasion, and to every form of Gambling, desiring
while wild Speculation and useless Traffic are
curtailed, it favors the policy of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariff-a policy which tends to Increase the
price of Grain to the farmer, while diminishing
that of Bread to the artisan, by reducing the dis
lance 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 Ma
1ath
as the bane 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
countrymen from projects of aggrandizement
abroad to enterprises of development and beneh-
cence at home, foremost among which we rank
Railroad through the heart of our Territory to
connect the waters of the Atlantic with those OF
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life are not vet fairly distributed, and thatno one
ready to work should ever famish in unwilling
idleness, it lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social improvement which does not coun-
tervail the dictates of eternal Morality nor war
upon that natural right of every one to whatso-
ever he has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial must sink mankind into the chaos
and night of barbarism and universal squalOr.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, libertines and proAigates can never be 9th
er lin the mIin) than needy and wretehed, it
bears aOt the great trath that Prevention is bet
ter than Punishment-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 Education-Relig-
ious, Moral and Industrial as well as Intellectu-
ais the most cffe:tiye 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
form Of evil but those which seek personal ad-
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The champion Of no class or caste, the
deVotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter-
prefer toeach other Of mems better impulses and
aspirations, the harbinger of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom
circumstances or misapprehensions have thrown
into unnatural antagOnism. A contemporary once
observed that he never knew a hard, grasping,
niggardly employer who did not hate the Tri-
bune, nor genuine, large -souled, kindly one,
willing to 1--we and let live, who did not like it.
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attastation.
The circulation of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
I76, 500 copies; Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies;
Total, 23O,S0 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 hostility to Human
Slavery and the Liquor Traffic been more guar
ded and polite, our Daily issues would now be
some thousands heavier, and our advertising far
more lucrative; but of our patronage generally
we have no reason, no wish 70 complain.
OF late, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish our rural circulation through the inhu-
ence of the Postmasters, some Of whom embark
in it eagerly, others under political cons raint;
while large number, we are happy, for the sake
of Human Nature, to state, refuse 20 be dragOon-
ed into it at all. Still, we have been made to
feel the heavy hand of Power, and have doubt
less lost thousands Of subscribers in consequence
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 Ofice till their
value was destroyed. Post Masters have been
schooled by rival journals-sevsral eff them liV-
ing on their proclaimed ability to serve as 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 10
it. In the open Geld of discussion, we fear moth
ing; but in the tens of thousands of rural
neighborhoods where the Post Master caninduce
many of his ouipt naiohhors IN taka tho iourra al