The Kanzas news., 1859-06-25
rhe New YORK TRIBUNE.

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| retrograding progressing backwards
They regard .sith reverence and venersion#
every thing that Is old, and, look With dis
trust. if not with dislike and disgust, upon
everything that is new They talk in rap
lures of the Golden Age that has passed,
regard the Present as essentially base, sor-
did and ignoble in the comparison. For
ourselves We take different and more hope
| tfui view Though rot whstnany would,
call disciple Of Newness. &c We certain
| " are a disciple of Progress. While We
would carefully cherish and preserve all the
| good things that have come down to US from
the past, we would with no less care nour-.
ish and deyelope the good which the nigh :
| ty Present and Future have in store for US
ssProve all things and hold fast that which
| is good is no less the dictate of enlighten
ed Philosophy than of Religion. Perhaps
nothing in the history of human affairs is
calculated to inspire more hopeful views of
| human progress and advancement than the
increased activity and usefulness of the
Press One hundred and seventy five years
ago, in the age of Milton, there was but a
single newspaper printed in all England
This was the London Gazette, which was
| published under the patronage of the Brit
ish Government. every Monday and Thurs
day. MacsulAy7 informs us that the con-
| tents of this sheet usually were. ''a roval
proclamation two or three Tory addresses mo-
.ices of two or three promotions, an account
of skirmish between the imperial troops
and the Janizaries on the Danube, a des-
cription of a highwayman, an announce
ment of grand cock fight between two
persons of honor. and an advertisement of
!, fering reward for stray dog" The whole
made up two pages of moderate size. Nei-
| ther the Gazette nor any supplementary
broadside ever contained any intelligence
which it did not suit the purpose of the
Court to publish The most important par
! liamentary debates, the most important
State trials recorded in our history were
| passed over in profound silence. Such was
the only newspaper published in the British
Empire in 1855. It's circulation did not
! probably exceed FIVE hundred copies. Com
| pared with that organ of British Royalty
and Aristocraey, THE EMPoRIA News,
humble as are its pretensions, is as giant
| by the side of dwarf; and the farmers of
| the Neosho and Cottonwood Valleys, the
oldest settlers of whom scarce two years
ago startled the wild deer and the buffalo
with the ring of his axe, take and read,
weekly, twice the number of papers that
were read by all who spoke the English Ian
guaoe less than two centuries ago.
There are probably not less than twenty
4 five hundred newspapers published in the
United States alone at the present time, the
smallest and dingiest of which contains
more useful information than the London
Gazette" of that time.
In Kansas at the present time there are
twenty one papers regularly published,
while in the great State of Ohio, at the time
of its admission into the Union in 1909.
there were but three, though Ohio had prob
ably twice the number of inhabitants that
Kansas has.
i But we commenced this article for the
purpose of noticing the 10Th birthday OF
the New York Tribune, paper which in
many respects realizes our highest ideal OF
what newspaper should be. That paper
was eighteen years old on the 10th day OF
/ April last and improves the occasion to in :
dulge its readers with sketch of its past
! history, and present condition.. 1t started
;. out upon its unparalleled career with a
cash capital of $1,000 borrowed from a
!, friend. and Horace GREELEY for its editor.
T.. J -. I,,1
subscribers It's expenses the first week
were S525 and its income S92, showing a
! large balance on the wrong side of the ledg
] er From that time 10 the present IT has
! taken the unpopular side of every question
4 before the pubfic-received less official pat
4 rortase Than any other journal of lis years,
and yet. lly sheer dint of honesty, industry,
RI perseverance, and talent, has risen to be one
i of the most powerful institutions on this
i Western Continent. 1t enters upon its 18th
year with circulation of 35.7 $50 daily,
/ 10, 900 senli-weekly, 1000 ''for the Pacif-
! ic," f53. 900 weekly-making a grand total
! of e211 ,75o copies, which are probably
read By not less than one million of persons
every week. Its circulation in Kansas is
|, ,588, of which about thirty come to Em-
poria, and we learn that some twenty or
: thirty more are to be sent for next week.
Il To supply this immense multitude of rea-
ders the Tribune uses 818 reams of paper
4 twenty two tous---every week, and its weekly
8 expenses average 81, BOO 1t pays TO editors,
i correspondents, aud reporters, S44, 900 per
Il annum, S62 600 for labor In the Printing
i Department, SIC, 600 for mailing the pa
pers 10 subscribers. $4,000 for Telegraph
! ic news, uses SO loo,worit of ink. and more
Il than ton OF clue. together with eleven
!. barrels of cane syrup, in the manufacture
of rollers to apply that ink TO the type.
1 The Steam Power presses on which it is