White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-07-01
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE--IS57-S
nNHETRIRUNE Was htst Issued as 9 ~

III W
i " on the 10Th of April, 1871. Its Week
IN edition vas Commenced in September Of the
same year; its Semi Weekly in May, le4S--
Il was the first daily in America to issue dou-
HE or eight-uage sheet at low price, and u mas
Vent At hast even with the foremost Of its rivals
in the rapid expansion Of Newspaper enterprise
which the great extension of Railroads, and the
establishment Of the Telegraph system have
crowded into these last sixteen oventfuI years
No larger journal is afforded at so low Priee IN
any quarter of the world; none IN America 40
matter at what price issued, pays an eq1al
amount, weekly or monthly, for intellectual "a
Dor. II employs correspondents regularly IN tne
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, regarsins
full, early and accurate information as the nrss
object Of Newspaper, and the timely ana
thorough calculation thereof as the chief END OF
its Editorials. In that spirit, the Tribune mas
been and will be conducted, extending and per-
feeting its correspondence fast as the increase
of its patronage will justify the expense. SnoEld
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 70 our,
selves, 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 monetary as
poets and harvest prospects of hither Europe.
With a good atlas beside him and his daily pa
per on his Preside table, the American farmer o.
artizzn within days ride of the city may then
study each evening the doings Of the civilized
world throughout the day preceding; and u
seems hardly possible that any who can read,
but especially one who has children to educate,
will longer deny himself the pleasure and proht
of daily journal. The same is true measure
ably of those who live further inland; though,
where mails are unfrequent, Semi W eekiy, or
even Weekly paper may seem sufficient.
THE TRIBUNE deals with questions Of 20
litcal Economy, Public Policy, Ethics, Maternal
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 honOrins OF honest useiuI
Work in whatever sphere or capacity, and the
consequent elevation of the Laboring Glass IN
knowledge, virtue and general esteem. 1t IS
necessarily hostile to Slavery under all its as :
poets, to Intemperance in whatever form or de-
gree with its accessories, to War save in the de-
fence Of Country and Liberty against actual IN
vasiou, aud to every form of Gambling, desiring
TO see Production extended and encouraged
while wild Speculation and useless Tratnc are
curtailed, it eTors the policy Of sustaining and
diversifying Hone Industry by discriminating
price of Grain to the farmer, while diminishing
that of Bread to the artisan, by reducing She DIS
lance across which their respective products are
exchanged, and, of course, reducing the cost o.
their transfer. Regarding Fillibusterism IN All
its phases, aud every form and device OF Va
tional cOvetousness, with unqualified SDnorrence
as the bane of Republics, and in their triumph
the grave of Equal Human Rights, we seeS Dy
every means to WOO and win the attention OF oui
eountrymen from projects of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
abroad to enterprises of development and benef-
eence athome, foremost among which we rank
Railroad through the heart of our Territory to
connect the waters Of the Atlantic with those OF
the Pacific. Believing that the goods of this
life are not vet fairly distributed, andthatnO one
non<iy to work should ever famish in unwilling
iolhcss, il lends an open ear to every sugges-
ton of Social improvement which does not eOuD-
tervail the dictates of eternal Morality nor war
upon that natural right Of every one to whatso-
ever he has fairly produced or honestly acquired,
whose denial mist sinksmInkind into the chaos
and night of bIrbarism and universal squalor.
With profound consciousness that idlers, drunk
ards, libertincs and proagates can never be 9th
er lin the m Iin) than needy and wretched, 1t
bears alO 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 true Education-Relig-
ious, Moral and Industrial as well as Intellectu-
ais the mostcffestive temporal antidOte to the
errors and woes of our race. Recognizing in the
most degraded specimen of Humanity, divine
spark which should be reverently cherished, not
ruthlessy tro1den out, we have charity for all
form of evil but th0se which seek personal adj
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 10 each other of mems better impulses and
aspirations, the harbinger of general concord be-
tween labor and Capital, and among those whom
circumstances or misapprehensions have thrown
into uunaturalantagonism. A contemporary once
observed that he never knew a hard, grasping,
niggardly employer who did not hate the Tri-
bnne, nor a genuine, large-souled, kindly one,
willing to live and let live, who did not like it.
| We ask no higher praise, no warmer attastation.
The circulation Of the Tribune is at this time
as follows: Daily, $4,000 copies; Weekly,
! I76, 500 copies; Semi Weekly, 10000 cop
| les; California and European, 5000 copies;
/ Total. 23O,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 contemporaries. Had our hostility to Human
Slavery and 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.
OF late, a 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, to 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
less lost thousands Of subscribers in consequence
| Pretexts to which no individual in his private
capacity would have stopped, have been relied
on to justify the stoppsge of our papers within
reach Of their subscribers and rightful owners,
value was destroyed Post Masters have been
schooled by rival journais-sevsral eff them liv-
ing on their selfproclaimed ability to serve as an
antidOte to the Tribune-as to their political
duty to promote at our expense the disse mination
Of gazettes Of adverse politics. We shall outliVe
4 this warfare, but we do not affect indifference to
it. In the openfeld Of discussion, we fear moth
/ ing; but in the tens of thousands of rural
neighborhoods where the Post Master can induce
many Of his quiet neighbors to take the Journal
he recommends, We have already lost some pat
\ rons, and expect 70 lose more as our subscrip-
tons for this year expire. We appeal, therefore,
to the hearty, faithful, fearless advocates of Free
Labor and Free Sell throughout theland to take
care that this official warfare on our circulation
be not prosecuted without counteraction. We
employ no travelling agents, for we will not con-
sent to have the public harassed with the solicit
tations Of strangers in our behalf We strike the
name Of each subscriber to our Weekly or Semi
f.ovv, hooLru "a aoor he t.. L..