The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-12
The New I orl1 Tribune


same year; lis Semi Weekly in Nav. 1916. II
was the hrst daily in America 70 issile double
or eght-page sheet at low Price. and Il has
kept at least even with the foremost of It's rivals
III The rapid expansion Of Newspaper enter
PRISE. winch the great extension OF Railroads
and The establishment Of the relerraphic ays-
tenn have crowded into these last q Stae,, eye,,t
full years 70 larger Journal IS afforded If so
low a 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 III the leading capitals Of Eurore
and at the most important points on this conti-
nent, with liberal staff of writers and renort-
ers at home, regarding full, carly and accurate
information as the hrst object of Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough eIueidatior itere-
Of as the chief end OF its Editorials n flat
spirit, THE TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and pcrfectiDy lis cores
pondence SO last as the increase of its PATRONAGE
VIII justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old WIFI the New
World by the magnetic wire prove successful
we shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
and we trust, q corresponding advantage to
| our readers. publish each morning a svnOneis
/ OF the preceding days occurrences throughout
Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia.
! with regular reports of the markets, the none
! tary aspects and harvest prospects of bither
| Earope. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his frcside table. the American
farmer or artizan within a DAYS ride Of the
city may then study each evening the doincs
of the civilized world throughout the DIV pre-
ceding; and it seems hardly possible hat any
one who can read. but especially one who has
children to educate, viii longer deny himself
The pleasure and profit of daily journal. The
same is true mcasurcab]y of those " no live fur
ther inland though, where mails are infre-
| quent, Semi Weekly, or even a Weekly ra
per. may seem sufficient
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions Of
Political Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Ma
| tcrial 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 honorinc of
honest, Gsefu! Work, i'll whatever sphere or ca
| paclty, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Glass in knowledge, virtue AMI general
esteem. 1t IS necessarily hostile TO 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 are curtailed it fa4ors 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 Fillibusterisn in all its phases, and
every form and device of National covetous-
ness, 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 country
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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 IN
willing ldleness, it lends an open ear to every
! suggestion Of Social improvement which does
not couDtervail 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
veTsal squalor. With profound consciousness
! that idlers, drunkards, libertnes and profit
| gates can never be other Gin the ;nain) than
needy and wretched, it bears aloit the great
! truth that Prevention is better than Punish
! ment-that the child trained up in the way he
should co. viii rarely in after years desert that
that q 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 a divine spark
| which should be reverently cherished not
ruthlessly trodden out, We have charity for all
! forms Of evil but those which seek PERSONAL ad
vantage through the dcbasement OF our fellow
beings. The champion of no class or caste, the
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| prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirat ons the harbnger Of general con-
cord between Labor and Capital and among
| those whom circumstances or nIis3pprehcnsions
| have thrown into unnatural antagonism. A
! cotelnporary once observed that he never knew
a hard, grasping. niggardly employer who did
not hate The Tribune, nor generous, large
souled, kindly one wiling 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 So, 600 copies; week
| ly, 176,800 copies Semi Weekly, 5000 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 Ad
vertising far more 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 in
! fiuence of the Postmasters, some of whom en-
| bark in It eagerly, others under polite con-
straint; while large number we are happy,
| for the sake of Human Nature, to state, refEse
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 no individual in
his private capacity would have stopped have
! been relied on 10 Justify the stoppage of our
papers within reach of their subscribers and
! rightful owners, and their retention in the Post
| Office till their vSlue was destroyed. Post
masters have been schooled by rival journals
several of them living on their elf-proclaimed
| ability to serve as an antIaote to The Tribune
4 AS to their political duty to promote at our
expense the dissemination OF gazettes OF adverse
| politics. We shall outliye 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 where
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 for this 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 warfare on our circulation be not
4 prosecuted without counteraction. 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 name
/ Of each subscriber to our Weekly or Semi
Weekly from our books so soon as his term has
expired, for we will not haunt our patrons with
duns for arrears which they may say they new