The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-01-15
THE TRIBUNE TOR 1861.

THE TRIBUNE TOR 1861.
/ TIE TRRuyE entered upon the year 1867
more prosperous la b~siues, than ever before.
/ THE TRI BUNE the largest and tie cheapest
newspaper III Amerca-was doubted bv manv
We have found our account in it. The circula-
ton of TIL TRI BUN f Is steadily increasing.
80 much that 1t Is more difficult to print our
news than when we used smaller sheel and
this, difficulty can only mend by by fre-
qoently publishing supplementary pages.
The close Of the war has imposed upon THE
+ TRl BUNE the discussion of momentouS and
peculiar problems. We have met met them as
best We could. lab0ring with sincerity for free
dom. Social Progress, Political Equality. M
partial Sutfrage-Au Rights Tor ALL 4 Re-
publican President became the enemy of Re-
publicausm, and We have been called upon to
denouuce and expnSe the treachcries of degra-
ded Administration. 1t was not without pain
Certainly not without much thinking. that we
made an Is ne with President Johnson. The
people approved our course bv returning their
radical representatives To- power The elections
OF S66-aS unpoiteut "a the nation qs Lees sur
rCnder-nrake new duties Reconstruction is
now the duty of tie countrv-political recon-
structIon Is now the duty ofthe country-poiiti-
cal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in finances
and tariffs We are no longer pressed bv war
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meHtS. The present condition of the currency
Is a grievious evil Trade suffers; our Tnanufac-
turing interest are in a precarious state. A dol
lar does not mean dollar, but its fraction. 1t
may be sixty cents, 1T may be ten. l Is a SEN
tlment not fact When the laborer earns lis
dollar he does not know whether he has one
loaf of bread or ten. All business Is feveri>h
aud unsettled. WclhiuR this can only he re-
NEEDED 10y wise end intrepid policy at Wash
lngton-by reducing the currency to the spe-
Gle bass, Upon this We shall insist.
The necessity OF Protection 10 Labor again
presses upon Us We regret that on this most
'nportent measure the Republican patty is divi-
ded. An hone. J I ID schicvous minority in
the " est, particularly, are endevoring TO create
a policy which can only result in the pros;rltion
Of American Industry-the degradation OF La
boT and the ACCOMPLISHMENT of English capital
ISts, During The many Years of our work we
have struggled against tins Interest. We be-
he'e Projection more necessary now than ever
before, and we shall insist upon the broadest
aud wi~est legislation for the Rights Of Labor
IN the pcrplcXiug question of Reconstruction
We see 10 reason TO amend the policy which we
have asserted since tie elise Of the war 1t
then seemed 10 us that Emancipation IF the
k should he followed by Satfrage for the
Black. We did not see the wlsd III Of policy
Il FTunl>cuouS contScatinU and hanging. We
had too much blood in war t. ask FIR blood in
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haIs I'D different WAYS. We have 40 higher
ann than to secure peace 10 this nation, and to
all natIons-hbeIty. progress happiness, virtue,
and The universal brotherhood Of man. And
ali TINS we shall continue TO toll ia our very
best way.
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