New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-25

flames OF Appetite, or crnging at the footsf"o' oil
Power we might fifty regard It as the wages of
dishonor rather than the reward Of unshrinking
fidelity and untiring industry; but we recall with
pride the fact that in resisting the aggrcssions OF
Slavery, in opposing the ravages of Alcoholic mad
ness. in struggling for a wider horizon and fairer
opportunity for the unskilled and needy, and in
exposing aud combating the swindllag pretensions
Of Sham Democracy We have almost uniformly
rowed against wind and tide-against an over
whelning local sentiment based a completely
with the shareholders, distllers, lquor-dealers and
the wielders Of ederal authority for the aggrandze-
ment Of their yotsries and the depression Of their
opponents. Whatever may have been ito faults
and We do not doubt that they have been grev-
Ous-we know that this paper might have been
rendered more profitable by the facile and usual
process of turning blind side TO popular vices and
the various crafts whereby they are made sub
seryient to personal emolument and consequence.
In pleading the cause Of the oppressed and the be-
nighted. We know that we have incurred the en-
uty Of classes able and willing 10 pay for support
or even conniyance, while those whose wrongs we
labored to redress could never hear of our adyoca
cy, much less requite it. So with regard to our
Efforts for Social Reform. We knew that they
provoked thousand powerful enemies where they
attracted and secured score of pOwerless and dis
trustfGl sympathises and possible patrons; but we
are confident that the Good Time Coming,
wherein every willing hand shall find work and
recompense for each day of healthful vigor where
in, Education being genuine and universal, Beg
gary shall hence be impertinent and Crime without
excuse, will have been FASTENED by the hospitality
given to the discussion of Social problems and
their bases through THE TRIBUNE.
And we rejoice in the faith that these discussions
are to bear visible fruit in the lifetime of this
generation. The Right of Every Innocent Man to
Himself, otherwise Anti-Sayery,) and the Right
Of Every Needy Man to a modicum Of the Earth's
Surface otherwise, Land Reform, are phases of
the same central truth; and the triumph of Land
Reform cannot much longer be postponed.
Grudged and partial its first triumph may be-suc-
cessfully resisted, it cannot much longer be. To-
day, earnest Land Reformers are more numerous
than radical Ant-Sayery men, and their triumph
viii palpably precede that of their brethren who
affirm the more obvious yet more vebemently con-
tested right of each man 10 the Use and profit of
his own brain and sinews. 1t is most fit that, in
the good providence of God, each of these truths
is destined in its triumph to promote and secure
the recognition Of the other.
Doubtless many of our readers have heard of the
kns of THE TRIBUNE, its dsorganzing doctrines,
its numerous hobbies and its frequent changes
from one of these to another. And yet, as one
mind has presided over its issues from the outset,
so one golden thread of purpose may be traced
through them ALL under every variety of circum-
stance and condition. That purpose is the Eleva-
ton of the Masses, through the diffusion and incul-
cation of Intelligence, Freedom, Industry, Skill,
Virtue, and the consequent abolition or limitation
of Ignorance, Slavery, ldeness, Pauperism and
Vice To accord generous welcome to every
novel suggestion, every unsefsh effort, tending to
the great end thus meditated whether that sug-
gestion contemplate the more perfect Development
and diyershcation of Material Industry through
Protection to American Labor, or improved taclll-
ties Of intercourse with brethren across the
continent by Railroad to the Pacific, or the pres
emit limitation and ultimate abolition of Human
Chattelhood, or the securing to every man the UNI
challenged possession and use of q patch of the
Earth's surface whereon to live and support his
family by the Freedom of the Public Lands, or the
dminution of human wretchedness and debase-
ment through war of determination on Intern
pcrance and It's accessories is, as il has been, our
mistaken purpose, our unshrinking aim.
Enough of egotism What THE TRIBUNE Is To-
day, We mean il shall BE- until we can make it bet
ter How soon that may be, depends mainly on our
patrons and friends whose generous aid in the past
We here thankfully acknowledge.