White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-05-06
THE NV Y0RK TRTBUNE--Is57- e.

THE NEW YORK TRFBUNE--ISs7-S 8.
1tHE Tribune vas hrst issued As q, q ps "a
j. " on the 10Th Of April. 1871. IL I" eeA'
" edition vas commenced in Sep.emDer, S % 'ne
same year; its Semi Weekly IN may, io -
Il vas she first daily in America 70 iseue ~
bic or eight-pase sheet at low price, ana as
vent At least even with the foremost ofits rivals
in the rapid expansion Of Newspaper enterprise,
which the great extension of Railroads. sne 1ne
establishment of the Telegraph system nave
crowded into these last sixteen sventlai years
No larger journal is afforded at so low price IN
auy quarter ekhthe world; none in America no
natter at what price Issued, pays an e9SA
amount, wzNkly or monthly, for intellectual IA
Dor. Il employs correspondents regularly IN ING
leading capitals of Europe, and at the most IN,
portant points on this continent, with hoeteI
staff Of writer's and reporters at home egArsine
full, early and accurate information as the mrs.
object Of Newspaper, and the timely ana
thorough calculation thereof as the CHIEF enc Of
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune mas
been and will be conducted, extending ana per
feoting its correspondence 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 success
full, We shall very soon, at heavy cost to our
selves, and, We trust, corresponding adVantAee
to our readers, publish each morning synopsis
Of the preceding days occurrences througnoot
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 Preside 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 Proceedings 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 nails 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
Its 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. IL 10
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all its as
poets, TO Intemperanes 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
to see Production extended and encouraged
while wild Speculation and useless Traffic are
curtailed, it favors the policy Of sustaining and
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariffs 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
"a II. = 4 a Of M
tional covetousness. with unqualified adherence
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
abroad to enterprises of development and beneh-
cence athoms, foremost among which We rank
Railroad through the heart of our Territory to
connect the waters Of the Atlantic with those oil
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life not vet fairly distributed, and that no one
ready 10 work should ever famish in unwilling
idlPncss, it lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social im1rovement which does not conn
tervail the dictates Of eternal Morality nor war
upoH that natural right Of every. one TO whatso-
ever he has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial must sink m Inkind into the chaos
and night Of blrbarism and universal squalor.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, libertines aud prOaigates can never be 9th
er lin the uIin) thIn needy and Wretched, IL
bears alOt the great trIth that Prevention lie bet
ter than Punishment-that the child trained up
in the way he should go, will rarely in after
wears desert that way for the thorny paths Of
Vice and Crims-that true Eiucation-Reli
ious, Moral and Industrial ~ well as Tntellectu-
ai-is the mostcffe tive temporal antidOte TO the
errors and woes of our race. Recognizing in the
most degraded specimen Of Hum unity, a divine
spark which should he reverently cherished, not
ruthlessly trodlen out, we have charity for all
form Of evil but those which seek personal adj
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The chamDion Of no class or caste, the
devotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter-
prefer tn each other Of mems better imBulses and
aspirations, the harbinger of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom
circumstances or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have thrown
into unnatural antagonism. A cotemporary once
observed that he never knew 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 tt~station
The circulation Of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
176, 500 copies; Semi Weekly, $4,000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies;
Total. e3O,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 cOtemporaries. Had our hostility to Human
Slavery aud 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 20 complain.
or late, 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 constraint;
while large number, we are happy, for the sake
Of Human Nature, ia state, refuse to be dragoon-
ed into it at all. Still, we have been made to
feel the heavy hand Of Power, and have doubt
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-sevsral eff them Nv
ing on their self proclaimed ability to serve as an
antidote 70 the Tribune-as TO their political
duty TO promote at our expense the dissemination
Of gazettes Of adverse politics. We shall outIive
this warfare, but We do not affect Indifference to
is. In the open field Of discussion, We fear moth.
ing; but in the tens Of thousands of rural
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the Post Master can induce |
many Of his quiet neighbors 10 take the journal |
be recommends, We have already lost some pat |
rons, and expect to lose more a. our subacrip-
tons for this year expire. We appeal, therefore,
70 the hearty, faithful, fearless advocates Of Free
Labor and Free Sell throughout theland to take |
care that this oficial warfare on our circulation
be not prosecuted without counteraetion. We