White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-05-02
the TRIBUNE FOR 1851.

prosperous IN Ouslne99 than ever oetote. Aue
expediency Of enlatgins our pages-thns max.
ing The Tribune the largest and the cheapest
newspaper in America-Was doubted By many.
We have found our account in it. TIE eireu-
lation Of The Tribune 10 steadily increasing.
and OUT advertising patronage has increased so
much that it is more difficult 70 print our news
than when We used smaller sheet, and this
difficulty We can only meet By frequently pub
fishing supplementary pages.
The close Of the var has imposed upon The
Tribune the discussion Of momentus aud pecu
liar problems. We have met them as best We
could. laboring with sincerity for Freedom,
Social Progress, Political Equality, Impartial
Suffage-An Rights for All. 4 Republican
President became the enemy Of RepublicaulsN.
and We have been called upon TO denounce and
expose the sreacheries of q degraded Admins.
tration. It was not without pain, certainly not
without much thinking, that We made issue
with President johnson. The people approved
our course by returning their radical represent
atives to power. The elections OF l666-as
important to the nation as Lees surrender
make new duties. Reconstruction is now the
duty of the country-political reconstruction
reconstruction in finances and tariffs. We are
no longer pressed BY war necessities, and We
must amend our war experiments. The pres
ent condition of the currency is q grevious evil.
Trade suffers our manufacturing interests are
in precarious state. A dollar does not mean
dollar, but its fraction. 1t may be sixty cents,
it may be ten. 1t ID a sentiment, not fact.
When laborer earns his dollar, he does not
know whether he has one loaf of bread or ten.
All business 10 feverish and unsettled. We
think this can only be remedied by wise and
intrepid policy at Washington-byr reducing the
currency to the specie basis. Upon this we
shall insist.
The necessity of Protection to Labor again
presses upon US. We regret that on this most
important measure the Republican party is di.
vided. An honest but mischievious minority
in the West, particularly, are endeavoring to
create a policy which can only result in the
prostration of American Industry-the degra-
dation of Labor and the aggrandizement of
English capitalists. During the many years of
our work we have struggled against this inter-
est We believe Protection more necessary
now than ever before, and we shall insist upon
the broadest and wisest legislation for the
Rights of Labor.
In the perplexing question of Reconstruction
we see no reason to amend the policy which we
have asserted since the close of the war. 1t
then seemed to us that Emancipation Of the
Black should be TO lowed by Suffrage for the
Black We did not see the wisdom Of a policy
of Pr omiscuous confscation and hanging. We
had too much hlod in war to ask for blood in
peace-even TO crafty angry vengeance. 1t
seemed important that the South should con-
cede Suffrage, and that the North should con
cede Amnesty. Some Of our friends disapproved
oi th's uu' CoHs'es' "as ,oHo~eo our "u'ice.
Amnesty mas Deeh approved oy Congress-to
greater extent thsh we Claimed IN 1 ne Tribune;
We nave held out mat the men VINO starved
captlves IN heoei dungeons, VINO murdered sur
rendered prisoners who violated the rules OF
war, and aided the ASSASSINATION OF Mr.. Lincoln,
should De tled ana punisneu. congress and
the Administration have agreed that no punish
ment should be iHnictsd even upon men who
are charged with these crimes, and the only
measure looking like punishment IS the amend
ment OF disfranchiseme9f from holding office.
which is merely sentimental and not practical
penalty. On the other hand, the passage OF
the Civil Rights Bill, the Freedman's Bureau
Bill, and the Bill for Suffrage in the District Of
Columbia, show that reconstruction will not be
consumated without outrage and protection for
the Blacks. The policy of The Tribune has
been practically adopted by those who differed
with US during its discussion. We never quar-
rel with friends who are impatient with us.
We do them the justice of believing they 60
their way to what is right, just as We trust that
they will do US the justice Of believing We 60
our way to what is right. We work for the
same object, but perhaps IN different WAYS. We
have no higher aim than to secure peace TO this
nation, and to all nations-liberty. progress,
happiness, virtue, and the universal brother
hood of man. And for this we shall continue
to toll in our best way.
We have reorganized and strengthened every
department of The Tribune. We have cores