The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-18
The New York Tribune
1863


dition was commenced in September of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, 1845. 1t
was the first daily in America to issue double
or eight-page sheet at low price, and it has
kept at least even with the foremost of its rivals
in the rapid expansion of Newspaper enter
prise, which the great extension of Railroads,
and the establishment of the Telegraphic sys-
TEN have crowded into these last sixteen event.
tul years: No larger Journal is afforded at SO
low price III any quarter of the world none
III 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 Newspaper,
and the timely and thorough calculation there
of as the chief end OF its Editorials. In that
spirit, tn % TRIBUNE has been and will be
conducted, extending and perfecting its cores
pondence so fast as the increase gifts patronage
will justify the expense. Should the current
attempt to connect the Old with the New
World by the magnetic wire prove successful,
we shall very soon, at heavy cost to ourselves
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 none
tary aspects and harvest prospects of hither
Europe. With good atlas beside him and his
daily paper on his fresidc 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 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
Their inland; though, where mails are infie-
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 may affect the
intellectual, Moral, Social and Physical we'll
being OF mankind, dognatic Theology alone
excepted. Its leading idea is the honoring of
honest. useful Work, in whatever sphere or ca
paclty, and the consequent elevation of the La
boring Glass in know ledge, virtue and 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 favors the policy
OF sustaining and diversifying 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 it's 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
men from projects of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT abroad to
enterprises of development and bcnefcence 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
suggestion of Social improvement which does
not countervail 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 idlers, drunkards, lbcrtines and profit
gates can never be other lin the main) than
needy and wretched, it bears alo1t 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 Intellectual is the most
effective temporal antidote to the errors and
woes of our race. Recognizing in the most
degraded specimen of Humanity divine spark
which should be reyerently cherished, not
ruthlessly trodden out, we have charity for all
forms of evil but those which seek personal ad-
vantage through the debasement of our fellow
beings. The champion of no class or caste, the
deyotee of no sect, we would fain be the inter-
prefer to each other of mems better impulses
and aspirations, 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
hard, grasping. niggardly employer who did
not hate The Tribune. nor a generous, large
souled, kindly one willing to live and let live,
who did not like If. We ask no higher praise,
no warmer attestation.
The circulation of The Tribune is at this
time as follows Daily $1,000 copies Week
ly, 116,8O0 copies Semi eekly, 10000 cop
les; California and European, 5000 copies )
Total, 230,600 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
ma nSlavery 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.
al.
diminish our rural circulation through the in
fuence 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, refuse
to be driven into it at all. STILL we hive 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 to Justify the stoppage of our
papers within reach of their subscribeA and
rightful owners, and their retention mtne 4ueks
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 an antIdote to The Tribune
las 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 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
prosecuted without counteraction. We employ
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