Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-01-08
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1867.

THE TRIBUNE enters upon the year 1867 more pros
porous in business than before The expediency
of enlargng our pages-thus making THE TRIBUNE the
largest aud cheapest newspaper in America-was
doubted 10y many. W have found our account in it.
The circulation Of THE TRIBUNE is steadily increasing
and our advertising patronage has increased so much
that it is difficult to print than when We
used smaller sheet, and this difficulty can only
meet by printing supplementary pages.
The close of the war has imposed upon THE TRIBUNE
the discussion OF momentous and peculiar problems
We have met them as best we cond tailoring with sim
certify for Freedom, Social Progress Political Equality
Impartial Sufrage-AI Rights for AL Republican
President became the enemy of Repubcanism, and
have been called upon to denounce and expose the
treacheries OF degraded Administrations 1t not
without pain certainly not without much thinking
that made an issue with President johnson. The
people approved by returning their radical
representatives to power The elections of s66-as i'm
portant to the nation Lees surrender-Inake new
duties Reconstruction is the duty of the country
political Observation-Disclosures in finances
and tariffs We are no longer pressed by necsssi-
ties and We must amend our war experiments. The
present condi zion of the currency greyous evil
Trade Suffers cur manufacturing interests in pre-
carIous state dollar does not mean dollar, but its
fraction. 1t may be sixty cents may be 1T is
sentiment not fact. When the laborer his
lar he does not know whether he has loaf of bread
ten. All business is feverish and unsettled. We
think this only be remeded by 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 rs. We regret that on this most important mea-
sure the Republican Party is divided An honest but
mischevous minority i'll the West particularly are en-
deayorng to create policy which only result in
OF Labor and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF English capitalists
During the many years of our work have struggled
against this interest believe Protection nee
esslry now than ever before and we shall insist upon
the broadcast and Wses legislation for the Rights of La
Dor.
In the perplexing question Of Reconstruction we SEQ
no reason to amend the policy which have asserted
since the close of the 1t then to us that
the Emancipation of the Black should be followed NV
Suffrage foI the Black. We did see the wisdom Of
policy Of promiscuous contscation and hanging We
had too much hood in war to ask for blood peace
even to crafty angry vengeance 1t seemed important
that the South should concede Suffrage and that the
North should concede Amnesty. Some of our friends
disprcved of this but Congress has followed advice
Amnesty has been approved by Congress-to greater
extent than claimed in THE TRIBUNE. We have held
that the who starved captives in Rebel Dungeons
VINO murdered surrendered Prisoners who violated tho
rules OF war; and aided the assassination of Mr. Lincoln
should be tried and punished Congress and the Admin
lstration have agreed that punishment should in
1ieted gpon men who charged with these
crimes, and the only looking like punishment
is the amendment Of acknowledgements from boldipg
office, which is merely sentimental and not a pract-
cal penalty Or the other hand the passage the Civ
il Rights BILL the Ereeiman's Bureau BII and The R
for Suffrage in the District Of Columbia show that re-
construction will not be consummated without Suffrage
and the protection of the Blacks The policy of TgY
TRIBCNE has been practically adopted by no diff
iereu win US during It's discussion We never quarrel
with friends who are inpatient with We do tbeus
the justice OF believing they go their way To what IL
right just as we trust they will do the justice Of be-
lieyiug go way To what is right. We work for
the same object but perhaps in different ways We
have no higher ann then 70 secure Peace to this nation
and 10 all nations liberty progress happiness virtue
and the universal brotherhood of man. And for this we
shall continue TO toll in our best way.
We have reorganized and every depart-
ment Of The TRIBUNE We have correspondents in eye-
ry part of this country and in every country Of the
world; resident correspondents in every capital and
commercial center OF Europe and South America spe-
cal correspondents 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 state that there
three hundred people directly Indirectly conncct
ed with the editorial department of The TRIBUNE
charged, in greater degree with writing for
its columns aud giving il and that every item
of news We pay money, the vast expense of pubca
ton may be imagined We intend enlarge IA, so IA
ctes, and not only gather from all parts of the
world, but ask the most gifted other countries
to write for our columns. With many Of them we have
already entered into negotiations which will result in
giving 10 the readers Of The TBIBuNE series Of ESSAYS
that both for ther Intrinsic value fame Of their
ilustrious authors Y i'll long be memorable in the his
tory OF journalism We postpone fer the present more
definite announcement
Friends Of Impartial Justice and Progress. we greet
you on the bright prospects before Friends Of THE
TRipuNE appeal to those that believe increased
circulation If THE TRIBUNE would conduce the poIt
ical intellectual and aoral wellbeing the Republic
to aid Us in effectine such increase.