White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-01-10
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1861.

Inc tribune enters upon the year 1900 more
prosperous in business than ever before. The
expediency Of enlarging our pages-thus max.
ing The Tribune the largest and the cheapest
newspaper in America-was doubted by many.
We have found our account in it. The circu-
lation of The Tribune is steadily increasing,
and our advertising patronage has increased so
much that it is more difficult 10 print our news
than when we used smaller sheet, and this
difficulty We can only meet by frequeatly pub
fishing supplementary pages.
The close of the war 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
Suffrage-All Rights for All. A Republican
President became the enemy Of ofRepublicanism.
and we have been called upon to denounce and
expose the treacheries of degraded Admins
tration. 1t 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 lS66-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 grevious evil.
Trade suffers our manu- featuring interests are
in precarious state. A dollar does not mean
a dollar, but its fraction. 1t may be sixty cents,
it may be ten. 1t is q sentiment, not fact.
When laborer earns his dollar, he does not
know whether he has one loaf Of bread or ten.
All business is fererish and unsettled. We
think this can only be remedied BY q wise and
interpid policy at Washington-by reducing the
currency 70 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 sndesxoring to
create policy which can only result in the
prostration Of American Industry-ths degra-
dation of Labor and the aggrandisement 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 70 shall insist upon
the broadest and vissst 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. It
then seemed to us that Emancipation Of the
Black should be followed BY Suffrage for the
Black. We did not see the wisdom of q policy
Of peomiscuous con6scation and hanging. We
had too much bIod in war 70 ask for blood in
to crafty angry vengeance. II
seemed important that the South should con-
cede Suffrage, and that the North should con-
cede Amnesty. Some -four friends disappsoved
Of this but Congress has followed our advice.
Amnesty has been approved BY Congress-to .
greater extent than We claimed in The Tribune.
We have held out that the men who starved
captives in Rebel dungeons. Who murdered sur
rendered prisoners, who violated the rules Of
var. and aided the assassination Of M. Lincoln,
'hould Be tried and punished. Congress and
he Administration have agreed that no punish |
nent should BE- inflicted even upon men Who |
Nc charged with these crimes, sad the only |
ssssurs looking like pauishnest h ~ aDssd.