The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-04-28
The New York Tribune
1853

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II Vie TRIBUNE was first issued as a Daily
a on the 18th of April, 1s41. Its Weekly e
dltlon was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, l945. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet at a low price, and it has
KEPT at least even with the foremost of its rivals
III the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension of Railroads,
and the establishment of the TelegraDhic svs-
| tenn have crowded into these last sixteen event
iuI 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 CONT
nent, with liberal staff of writer's and report
ers at home, regarding tull, early and accurate
information as the first object of NewspaDer.
and the timely and thorough calculation there
OF as the chief end OF its Editorials In that
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
ponuence so fasl as the increase of its patronage
Will justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the New
"orid oy the magnetic wire prove successful.
we shall very soon, at a heavy cost to ourselves
ana we trust, corresponding advantage to
our readers. publish each morning a svnonsis
of the preceding days occurrences tbrouohont
| Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia.
With regular reports of the markets, the none
taly aspects and harvest prospects of hithcr
Europe with good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his freside table, the American
farmer or artizan within a DAYS ride of the
city may then study each evening the doines
OF the civilized world throughout the day pre-
ceding; 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 measureably of those who live fur
| ther inland though, where mails are infrc-
quent, a Semi-Weekly, or even Weekly pa
| per. may seem sufficient
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of
| Political Economy, Public Policy. Ethics, Ma
| terial Progress, and whatever NAV affect the
Intellectual, Moral, Social and Physical we'll
being of mankind, dogmatic Theology alone
excepted. It's leading idea is the honoring of
honest, usefu! w ork, i'll whatever sphere or ca
| paclty, and the consequent elevation of the La
| boring Class in know ledge, virtue anti general
esteem. 1t is necessarily hostile to Slavery
under all its aspects 10 lntemperance 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 fvors the policy
OF sustaining and diyersifying 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 the cost of their transfer
Regarding Fillibusterism in all its phases, and
every form and device of National covetous-
ness, with unqualified adherence as the lame
of Republics and in theirtriunph the grave of
equal human rights, we seek by every means
to WOO and win the attention of our country
men from projects of aggrandizement abroad to
enterprises of development and bcnchcence 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 fimish in IN
willing idleness, it lends an open ear to every
suggestion of Social Improvement which does
| not countervail the dictates of eternal Morality
ncr 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. W it'll profound consciousness
that idlcrs, drunka~ds libertines and profit
gates can never be other lin the nlain) 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. will rarely in after years desert that
way for the thorny paths of Vice and Crime
that true Observation-Disclosures, Moral and
Industrial as well as Jntelectual-is the most
effective temporal antidote to the errors and
woes of our race. Recognizing in the most
j La1 of
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 ofno 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. A
contemporary once observed that he never knew
a hard. glasping. 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 attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows: Daily 1872 900 copies Week
ly, I76S00 copies Semi Weekly. $4,000 cop
les California and European, 5000 copies =
Total. 230,800 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 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, no wish, to
complain. e.,,v 81, se
Of1ate, a concerted effort has been made to
diminish o., rural circulation through the M
fluence of the Postmastt"rs, some OF whom en-
bark in it eagerly, others under polite con-
straint while large number we are happy,
for the sake of Human N ature, to state, refuse
to be driven into it at all. Still we have been
made to feel the heavy hand of Power, d have
doubtless lost thousands of subscribers in con-
sequence Pretexts to which 10 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 on their self. proclaimed
ability to serve as antIaote to The Tribune
-as to their political duty to promote at our
expense the dissemination of gazettes OF adverse
politics. We shall outline this warfare. but we
do not affect indifference to it. In the open
field of discussion, we fear nothing; but in the
tens of thousands of rural neighborhoods " 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 as our subscriptions tor tins 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 warfire on our circulation be not
prosecuted without counteraction. We enploy