Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-16
yuETRERUNE FOR 1867.


prosperous in business than ever before. The
expedieney Of enlarging our pages-thus making
TIE TRIBUNE the largest and the cheapest news
paper in Ameriea--was doubted by many. We
have found our account in it. The eli culatfon of
THE TRIBUNE IS steadily increasing, and our adj
vertising patronage has increased so much that
it is more dlHienlt TO print our news than when
we used smaller sheet, and this difficulty we
can only meet ny frequently publishing supple.
mentary pages. 10y
The close eff tie war has imposed upon TIE
TRIBUNE the discussion OF niolhentohs sid pc.
Culiar problems. We haze met them as best we
conld, laboring with siHderity for Freedom. 20.
cial Progress, Political Equality, Impartial Suf
frage-All Nights for All. A Republican Presi-
dent became the enemy Of Repubiganism, and
We have been called upon to- denonnce and ex-
pose the treacheries OF degraded AdmihistrH,
ton. itwas not without pain, certainly not
without much thinking that we made an Issue
with President johnson. The people approved
our course by returning the radical representa-
tives to power The elections Of ls66--as i'm
portant to the nation as Lees surrender-make
new duties. Reconstruction il now the duty of
the country-politich northumberland
struction in finances and tariffs. We are no Ion
ger pressed by war necessities, and we must a.
mend our war experiments. The present condi-
ton of the currency is erievous evil. Trade
suffers our manufacturing interests are in a
precarious slate. 4 dollar does not mean dol.
lar, but its fraction. 1t may be sixty cents, it
mar be ten, 1t is sentiment, hot fact. When
the laborer earns his dollar, he does not kno&
whether he has one loaf bread or ten All busi
ness is fevGrish and unsettled We think this can
only he reuiedied by wise and intrepid policy
at Washing 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 mort
important measure the Republican party is divi
jed An honest but misehievous minority in the
West, particularly are endeavoling to create a
policy which can only result in the prostTation
Of American lndusTry-the del radiation OF Labor
aud the agglandizenlent of English capitalista
During the many years of our work We have
struggled against this interest. We believe Pro-
lection more necessary now than ever lefore, and
we shall insist upon the l'roadest and wisest le-
gislation for the rights of Labor
In he perpeXng question OF Reconstruction
wesee no rea on 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 followed by suffrage for the Black, We
did not see the wisdom OF policy of promiscu-
GUS confscation and hanging. Ave had too much
blood in war to ask fol blood i'll peace-even to
crafty angry vengeance. 1t seemed important
that the South should concede suffrage. and that
| the Mott should canCcde amnesty, Some of our
friends disapproved OF this !; but Congress has
| followed or advice. Amnesty has.beeen appro-
we'd by COngress-to a greater extent than We
claimed in THE TRIBUNE. We have held that
the men who starved captiyes IN rebel dungeons.
who murdered surrendered prisoners, who viola
ted tie rules OF war, ana aided the assassination
of Mr. Lincoln, should be tried and punished
Congress and the Administration nave agreed
that no punishment hould be inflicted even up
ON men who are charged with these crimes, and
the only measure locking like punis hment is the
amendment of disfranchisement from holding Of.
| fee, which is merely a sentimental and not a
| II ~. 49,
| sage of the Civil Rights Bill the Freedman s
Bureau Bill, and the Bill for Suffrage in The Dis.
| trict of Columbia show that reconstruction will
not be consummated without suffrage and proteE
| ton iur theBlaclls. The policy Of TnE TRIBUNE
hes been practically adopted by those who elf.
| ferel with us during its discussion. We never
quarrel with friends who are impatient with u.s.
We do them the jus, ice of believing they go their
way TO what is right, just as we trust they will
| do us the Justice OF believing we go our way I'd
what is right. We work for the same object but
tperhaps in different ways. We have no higher
aim THAI to secure peace to this nation, and to
all nations-liberty, progress, happiness, virtue
and the universal brotherhood of man. And for
this we shall continue to toll in our best way.
/, We hare recognized and strengthened ev-
cry department OF The TRIBUNE, We have cor.
| respondents in every part of this country and in
every country of the world resident correspon.
dents in every capital and commercial center Of
| Europe and South America special correspond
ents who follow important movements in all
parts Of the earth. This establishment costs O
great deal of money, and to organize it we have
Invested many thousands of dollars When We
state that there are three hundred people direct
" or indirectly connected with the editorial dc
partment of TIE TRIBUNE charged, tn greater
or less degree, with writing for its columns and
giving it news, and that for every'item Of news
we pay money the vast expense of orr publca
ton may be imagined, We intend to enlarge
these facilities, and not onlyt to gather news from
all parts of the world, but to ask the most gift
ed men of other countries to write for our col
umns With many of them we have already en-
tered into negotiations which will result in CIV
ing TO the readers of THE TRIBUNE series of es
SAYS that, both for their intrinsic Value and thu
fame of their illustrious authors, will lbhg b
memor able in the history of journalism. w
postpone for the present more definite an
nouncement,
Friends of Impartial Justice and Progress W
greet you on the bright prospects before u.s.
Friends of The TEIBUNE we appeal to thos
who believe that an increased circulation of Tn
TRIBUNE would conduce to the political, intel
lectual. and moral we'll being of the Rep ublic
to aid us in effectng such incredse.
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