The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-01-10
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1857.

more prosperous IN Dublness Lnan ever De-
fore. The expedieucy Of enlarging our
pages-thus making THE TRIBUNE the
largest and the cheapest newspaper in
America--was doubted by many. We
! have found our account in IL. The circula-
ton of The TRIBUNE is steadily increas-
| ing, and our advertising patronage has in
creased so much that il is more difficult to
| print our news than when we used a
smaller sheet, and this difficulty we can
only meet by frequently publishing sup
| Elementary pages.
The close ofthe war has imposed upon
The TRIBUNE the discussion of momen-
tous and peculiar problems. We have met
them as best we could, laboring with sim
certify for Freedom, Social Progress, Polit-
ical Equality, Impartial Sutlrage-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 Ad-
ministration. 1t was not without pain,
certainly not without much thinking, that
we made an issue with President Johnson.
The people approved our course by return
ing their radical representatives to power
The elections of lS66-as important to the
nation as Lees surrender-make new du-
| ties. Reconstruction is now the dutv of
the country-political reconstructiou-re-
construction in finances and tariffs. We
are no longer pressed by war necessities,
and we must amend our war experiments
The present condition of the currency is a
grievOus evil. Trade Suffers our manu-
featuring 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 a sentiment, not a fact. When
the laborer earns his dollar, he does not
know whether he has one loaf of bread or
ten. All business is feverish and unset
tied. We think this can only be remedied
by wise and intrepid policy at Washing
ton-by reducing the currency to the specie
basis. Upo1fthis we shall insist.
The necessity of Protection to Labor
again presses upon us. We regret that on
this most important measure the Repub-
ltcan party is divided. An honest but
mischievous minority in the West, partic-
ularly, are endeavoring to create a policy
which can only result in the prOstration Of
American Industry--the degradation 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 brOadest and wisost legislation
for the Rights of Labor.
| In the perpleXing question Of RecOnstruC-
ton we see no reason to amend the policy
which we have asserted since the close of
the war. 1t then seemed to us that Eman-
! cipatiOn of the Black should be followed by
Suffrage for the Black. We did not see the
wisdom of a policy of promiscuous Confis-
cation and hanging. We had too much
blood in war to ask for blood in peace
even to crafty angry vengeance. It SEEM
ed important that the South should con-
cede Suffrage, and that the North should
concede Amnesty. Some of our friends
disapproved of this but Congress has fol-
! flowed our advice. Amnesty has been ap-
proved by COngress-to a greater extent
| than we claimed in The TRIBUNE. We
have held that the men who starved cap
tiVes IN i:ehel Dungeons. who murdered
surrendered prisoners, who violated the
rules of war, and aided the assassination of
Mr.. Lincoln should be tried and punished
Congress and the Administration have
agreed that no punishment should be in
fiicted even upon llen who are charged
with these crimes, and the only measure
looking like punishment is the amend
ment Of Acknowledgement from holding Of
flee, which is merely a sentimental and not
| a practical penalty. On the other hand,
the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the
Freedman's Bureau Bill, and the Bill for
Suffrage in the District of Columbia, show
that reconstruction will not be Consum-
mated without suffrage and protection for
the Blacks. The policy of THE TRIBUNE
has been practically adopted by those who
differed with us during its discussion. We
never quarrel with friends who are impa-
tient with us. We do them the justice of
believing they go their way to what is
right, just as we trust they will do us the
justice of believing we go our way to what
is right. We work for the same object,
hut perhaps in different ways. We have
no higher aim than to secure peace to this
nation, and to all nations-libertv, pro-
gress, happiness, virtue, and the universal
! brotherhood of man. And for this we shall
continue to toll in our best way.
We have reorganized and strengthened
every department of The tribune. We
have correspondents in every part of this
country and in every country ofthe world !:
resident correspondents in every capital
and commercial center of Europe and
South America special correspondents who
follow important movements in all parts
of the earth. This establishment costs a
great deal of money, and to organize it we
have invested many thousands of dollars
When we state that there are three hum
dred people directly or indirectly connect
ed with the editorial department of THE
TRIBUNE, charged, in a greater or lesser
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 in
tend 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 in
! to negotiations which will result in giving
to the readers of The TRIBUNE a series of
essays that, both for their intrinsic value
and the fame of their illustrious authors,
will long be memorable in the history of
journalism. We postpone for the present
a more definite announcement
Friends of Impartial Justice and Pro-
gress we greet you on the bright prospects
before us. Friends of THE TRIBUNE! we
appeal to those who believe that an in
creased circulation of The TRIBUNE would
cOnduce to the political, intellectual, and
moral well-being Of the Republic, to aid us
in edeotiug such increase.
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