White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-02-07
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1861.


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 circa'
lation of The Tribune is steadily increasing,
and our advertising patronage has increased 90
much that it is more difficult 70 print our news
than when We used smaller sheet, and this
difficulty We can only meet BY frequently 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
Sufrage-All Rights for Ali. A Republican
President became the enemy of Republicanism.
and We have been called upon to denounce and
expose the treacheries of q degraded Admins
tration. Il 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 manufacturing interests are
in a precari0us state. A dollar does not mean
dollar, but its fraction. 1t may be sixty cents,
it may be ten. 1t ia sentiment. not a fact.
When laborer earns his dollar, he does not
know whether he has ore loaf OF bread or ten.
All business is feveris6 and unsettled. We
think this can only be remedied by q wise and
intrepid policy at Washington-by 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 di
vided. An honest but mischievious minority
in the West, particularly, are endeavoring to
create policy which can only result in the
prostitution 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 perplexiug 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 Emancipa ton Of the
Black should be followed by Suffrage for the
Black. We did not see the wisdom of q policy
of p, omiscuous confiscation and hanging. We
had too much bod 10 war to ask for blood in
peace-eveu to crafty angry vengeance. 1t
seemed important that the South should con-
cede Suffrage, and that the North should con-
cede Amnesty. Some Of our friends disapprov ed
of this but Congress has followed our advice.
Amnesty has been approved by Congress-to a
greater extent than we claimed in The Tribune.
We have held out that the men who starved
captives in Rebel dungeons, who murdered sur
-Lr koI e
war, and aided the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln,
should be tried and punished. Congress and
the Administration have agreed that no punish
ment should be Inflicted even upon men who
are charged with these crimes, and the only
measure looking like punishment is the amend
ment Of disfranchisement from holding office,
which is merely q sentimental and not a practical
penalty. On the other hand, the passage OF
the Civil Rights Bill, the Freedman's Bueau
Bill, and the Bill for Suffrage in The District of
Columbia, show that reconstruction will not be
consumated without suffrage and protection Tor
the Blacks. The policy of The Tribune has
been practically adopted by those who differed
with US during its discussion. We never quar-
rel with friends who are impatient with US.
We do them the justice of believing they go
their way to what is right, just as We trust that
they will do US the justice Of believing we go
our way to what is right. We work for the
same object, but perhaps IN different ways. We
have no higher aim than to secure peace to this
nation, and to all nations-liberty, progress,
happiness, virtue, aud the universal brother
hood of man. And for this we shall continue
to toll in our best way.
We have recognized and strengthened every
department of The Tribune. We have cores
pondents in every part Of this country and in
every country OF the world resident correspon-
dents in every capital and commercial centre
of Europe and South America special cores
pondents who follow important movements in
all parts Of the earth. This establishment costs
great deal Of money, and to organize it we
have invested many thousands of dollars
When we state that there are three hundred
people directly or indirectly connected with the
editorial department of The Tribune, charged
in 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 our publication may be imagined. We intend
to enlarge these facilities, and not only to
gather news from all parts of the world, but to
ask the most gifted men of other countries to
write for our columns. With many of them
we have already entered into negotiations
which will result in giving to the readers of The
Tribune series of essays that both for their
intrinsic value and the lame of their illustrious
authors, will long be memorable in the history
of journalism. We postpone for the present
more definite announccm ent.
Friends of Impartial Justice and Progress
We greet you on the bright prospects before US.
Friends of The Tribune we appeal to those
who believe that an increased circulation of
The Tribune would conduce to the political,
intellectual, and moral wellbeing of the Re-
nublic To aid us in effecfinp such ipcraasa