White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-11
oTlE TRIBUNE ron 1851


pSst enw 10 business than ever befo.e.- The
.sxReaiepcy Of enlarging our pages-thps max
III he Rune tho largest. and tie hsapest
newspaper in America-was doubted BY many.
We have found our account in il. The circa-
lation.cf Tie Thbsne b steadily decreasing,
and our advertising patronage has increased 30
much that il is more difficult 70 print our news
thah when We used smaller sheet, and this
dimcafty ve can only meet BY frequently pub
Gshing supplementary pages.
The ciose Of the war has Imposed upon The
Iribpne the discussion OF momentus aid pecu
!! liar problems. We have met them as best we
could, laboring with sincerity for Freedom,
Social Progress, Political Equality, Impartial
SuHrage-All Rights for All. A Republican
President became the enemy Of Republicanism.
and We have been called upon to denounce and
expose the treacheries Of a 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 theft radical represent
atiyes 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
Trade suffers our manufacturing interests are
in a precarious state. A dollar does not mean
dollar, but its fraction. 1t may be sixty cents,
it may be ten. 1t is sentiment, not a fact.
When lab0rer earns his dollar, he does not
know whether he has one loaf Of bread or ten.
All business is feverish and unsettled. We
think this can only be remedied by a wise and
intrepid policy at WsshinSton-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 d.
vided. An honest but mischievious minority
in the West, particularly, are endeavoring to
create 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 broadcast and wi.est 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 followed by Suffrage for the
Black We did not see the wisdom of a policy
VI ptouiSCuous so"noSosiou uuu hdbSibS- "c
had too much rod In war to ask for blood in
peace-even to crafty angry vengeance. 1t
seemed important that the South should con-
cede Suiffaee aud that the North should con.
cede Amnesty Some of our friends disapproved
Of this bet Congress mas 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
captves in Rebel dungeons, who murdered sur
rendered prisoners, Who violated the rules of
war, and aided the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln,
should be sried and punished. Congress and
the Administration have agreed that no punish
ment should be iaAicted even upon men who
are charged with these crimes, and the only
measure looking like punishment is the amend
ment of Acknowledgement from holding office.
which Is merely eentimantal and not a practical
penalty. On the other hand, the passage Of
the Civil Rights Bill, the Freedman's B neau
Bill, and the Bill for Suffrage in the District of
Columbia, show that reconstruction will not be
consumated without suffrage and protection for
the Blacks. The policy of The Tribune has
been practically adopted by those who differed
with ne ,inripp Ia discussion. We never mar
rel with friends who are impatient with us.
We do them the Justice of believing they 90
their way to what is right. lust as we trust that
tbex will do us the Justice of believing We 90
our way to what is right. We work for the
same object. but perbaps m different WAYS. We
have mo higher aim than to secur. prace TO This
nation and to ALI nntiops-Eberty ur,,ress
happiness, virtue, aud the universal brother
hood of man. And for this we shall contiaue
IN toll in onr hest vav.
We have reorranized and strengthened every
department of The Tribune. We have cores
pondents in every part of this country and in