White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-18
TIE NEW YORK TRIBUNE--Iss7-s,

" edition was commenced N September Of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, 1888
Il was the first daily in Amefiez TO issue dou-
bic or eight-page sheet at alO~ price, and il has
kept at least even With the foremost ofitsriIAh
in the rapid expansion Of Newspaper enterprises
which the great extension OF Railroads, and ne
establishment Of che Telegraph system have
crowded into these last sixteen oventfnl years.
No larger Journal is afforded at so low price in
any quarter Of the world; none In America, Do
matter at what price Issued, pays an equal
amount, weekly or monthly, for intellectual Ia
Dor. Il employs correspondents regularly IN the
leading capitals OF Europe. and at the most i'm
portant points on this continent, with liberal
staff of writer's and reporters At home, regardlng
full, early and accurate information as the mas
object Of q Newspaper, and the timely sno
thorough calculation thereof as the chief emo OF
its Editorials. In that spirit. the Tribune mas
been and will be conducted, extending and per-
feoting its correspondence fast as the increase
Of its patronage will Justify the expense. Should
the current attempt to connect the Old with the
New World BY the magnetic wire prove suecess-
full, we shall very soon, At q heavy cost to oar
selves, and, We trlIst, 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
DeClS anu harvest prospects OF nlNOcs GuHopce
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 doinss of the civilized
world throughout the day preceding; and 10
seems hardly possible that any who can read,
but especially one who has children to educate,
will longer deny himself the pleasure and proAs
Of daily Journal. The same Is true measure.
ably Of those who live further inland; though,
where mails are unfreqaent, a Semi Weekly, %
even Weekly paper may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions of o-
litlcal Economy. Public Policy, Ethics, Material
Progress, and whatever my affect the Intellee-
tnal, Moral, Social and Physical well-beinK OF
mankind, dogm1tic Theology alone excepted.
Its leading idea is the hon0ring of honest, useful
Work in whatever sphere or capacity, and the
consequent elevation of the Laboring Class In
knowledge, virtue and general esteem. IL IL
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all itS a.
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, il favors the policy Of sustaining snd
diversifying Home Industry by discriminating
Tariff 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
tional eovetousness, with unqualified abhorrenee
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 bench
cence at home, foremost among which we rank
Railroad through the heart Of our Territory -
connect the waters Of the Atlantic with those Of
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of thia
life are not yet fairly distributed, and that no one
ready to work should ever famish in unwilling
idleness, it lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social improvement whichd does not eoun-
tervail the dictates Of eternal Morality nor was
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 idIers, drunk
ards, lbertines and profigates can never be 9TH
er lin the mini than needy and Wretched, 10
bears aloft the great truth 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 q true Education-Rshg-
ious, Moral and Industrial as we'll as Intelleetu-
ais the most efe tive temporal antidote to the
errors and woes Of our race. Recognising in the
most degraded specimen Of Humanity, divine
spark which should be reVerently cherished, NOS
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 to each other of mems better impulses and
the harbinger Of general concord be-
tween Labor and Capital, and among those whom
circumstances or misapprehensions have thrown
into unnatural antag0nism. contemporary once
observed that he never knew a hard, graspings
niggardy employer who did not hate the Tn
bune, nor genuine, large-souled, kindly one,
willing to 1--we and let live, who did not Ike 70.
We ask no higher praise, no warmer attestaticn.
The circulation Of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
I76, 500 copies; Semi-Weekly, 10, 1000 cop
les; California and European, O,000 copies;
Total. 23O,s00 copies. That Of the Semi.
Weekly and Weekly, we believe 10 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 and the Liquor Traffic been more guar
ded and polite. our Daily issues would nov b
some thousands heavier, and our advertising Sar
more lucrative; but of our patronage generally
we have no reason, no wish 20 complain
or late, a concerted effort has been made 10
diminish our rural circulation through the inAu-
ence of the Postmasters, some Of whom embark
in il eagerly, others under Political eonstraint;
while a large number, we are happy, for the sake
of Human Nature, Ia state, refuse 70 be drsgoon-
ed into it at all. Still, we have been made -
feel the heavy hand Of Power, and have doubt
less lost thousands Of subscribers in consequences.
Pretexts TO which no individual in his private
capacity would have stopped, have been relied
on 20 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 Commissioned ef them liv-
ing on their self proclaimed ability 70 serve as an
antidote 10 the Tribune-as TO their political
duty to promote at our expense the dissemination
Of eazettes of adverse politics. We shall outliTo
this warfare, but we do not affect indifference 70
Il. II che open field Of discussion, we fear moth.
ing; but In the tens Of thousands OF rural
where the Post Master can iDduee
many Of his quiet neighbors TO take the Journal
he recommends, we have already lost some pat
rons, and expect to lose more a. our subserip-
tons for this year expire. We appeal, therefore,
to the hearty, faithful, fearless advocates Of Free
Labor and Free Sell throughout the land 70 take
care that this Official warfare on our circulation
be not prosecuted without eounteraetion. We
employ no travelling agents, for we viii not eoa-
sent to have the public har4ssed with the solie1-
tations Of strangers in our behalf We striksths
name Of each subscriber 10 our Weekly or Semi.
Weekly from our books 50 soon A. bis term has
expired, for We will nos haunt eur patrons with
duns for arrears which they may say they never
intended to incur, for papers which perhaps the3