The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-09


and the ferbearance of creditors, to
help you through [ have squandered
much hard earned money In trying to
( help others, who were already past
| help, when I not only might, but
should, have saved most of it, if [
had never, needing help, sought and
received it. As it is, | trust that my
/ general obligation has been fully dis
cahrged.
The Tribune, as it first appeared,
was but the germ of what | sought to
make it. No journal sold for cent
could ever be more than a dry sum
mary of the most important or the
most interesting occurrences Of the
! day; and such is not newspaper, in
the higher sense of the term. We need
to know not only what is done, but
what is purposed and said, by those
who sway the destinies of States and
realms; and, to this end, the prompt
perusal of the manifestoes of mon
archs, presidents, ministers, legisla-
tors, etc, is indispensable. No man
is even tolerably informed in our day
who does not regularly keep the
run of events and opinions, through
the daily perusal of at least one good
journal; and the ready cavil that . no
one can read all that a great modern
journal contains. only proves the igno-
rance or thoughtlessness of the cavil-
er. No one person is expected to
take such an interest in the rise
and fall of stocks, the markets
for cotton, cattle, grain, and
goods, the proceedings of Congress,
Legislatures and Courts, the politics
of Europe, and the ever-shifting
phases of Spanish-American anarchy,
etc, ETC., as would incite him to a
daily perusal of the entire contents of
a metropolitan city journal Of the first
rank. The idea is rather to embody
in single sheet the information daily
required by all those who aim to keep
posted on all important occur
rences; so that the lawyer, the mer-
chant, the banker, the forwarder, the
economist, the author, the politician,
etc, may find here whatever he needs
to see, and be spared the trouble of
looking elsewhere. A copy of great
morning journal now contains more
matter than an average 12mo volume,
and It's production costs far more,
while It is sold for fortieth or fiftieth
part of the volumes price. There is
no other miracle of cheapness in
comparison with its cost which at all
approaches it. The Electric Tele-
graph has precluded the multiplied
ton of journals in the great cities, by
enormously increasing the cost of
publishing each of them. The Tri-
bune, for example, now pays more
than 100000 per annum, for intel
oil Ioh (VnV1nrtInr
and about its Office, and $4,000 more
ing-in other words for collecting
and transmitting news. And, while
its income has been largely increas
ed from year to year, its expenses
have inevitably been swelled even
more rap dly; SO that, at the close of
1866, in which its receipts had been
over 5000, 900, its expenses had been
very nearly equal in amount, leaving no
profit beyond a fair rent for the prem
lses it owned and occupied. And yet
its stockholders were satisfied that
they had done good business-that
the increase in the patronage and
value of the establishment amounted
to a fair interest on their investment,
and might well be accepted in lieu of
a dividend. In the good time coming,
with cheaper paper and less exorbitant
charges for cable dispatches from
the Old World, they will doubtless
reap where they have now faithfully
sown. Yet they realize and accept
the fact that a journal radically hostile
to the gainful arts whereby the cum
ming and powerful few live sumptuous-
ly without useful labor, and often
amass wealth, by pandering to lawless
sensuality and popular vice, can never
hope to enrich its publishers so rapid
ly and so vastly as though it had a
soft side for the liquor traffic, and for
ali kindred ailurements to carnal APP
petite and sensual indulgence
Fame is vapor; popularity an ac-
cldent; riches take wings; the only
earthly certainty is oblivion-no man
can foresee what a day may bring
forth; and those who cheer to-day
will often curse tomorrow; and yet [
cherish the hope that the journal
projected and established will live
and flourish long after | shall have
mouldered into forgotten dust, being
guided by a larger wisdom, a more
unerring sagacity to discern the right,
though not by more unfaltering
readiness to embrace and defend it at
whatever personal cost; and that the
stone which covers my ashes may bear
to future eyes the still Ineligible in
scription, Founder Of the New York
Tri6une u