The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-09
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1870 PROSPECTUS 1916
OF THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The Great Radical RepasbIteQas
Organ and the leading .HcarS.
paper Of the Vest.

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Organ, and the leading .HetrS.
paper Of the Vest.
TIE CHEAPEST IND BEST 4NLLY PAPEi:
IN THE LAND.
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE is emphatcally the Pe0-
Pies Advocate. 1t is opposed to monopelies.
rings and swndling combinations of kinds. 1t has
interests alliences apart fro those the great
public to whose friendship and patronage it is indebted
for the of prosperity it enjoys. distinguish
ing charactrstic Of the Ctrc.ao TRInuNE i. That II
always boldly takes the initiative important pub
lie questions and waits for time and reecton among
the people to prove that it is right
The. Issues.
1t seems TO be morally certain that, with the cx
tincon of slavery and its adjuncts aud The Taifca
ton of the Fifteenth Amendment, questions reiatins
to the Public Debt, Taxation, and the Currency viii
be the ruling and governing iSsues upon which the
country will be divided 1t is proper, therefore, 10
indicate the views of those questions which TIE IRi
Rune VIII maintain and defend 1t holds
/. That an irrede-mablc and fuctuatng currency
is the most expensive injurious and oppressive form
of circulating modnm for all classes of people, ex-
cept only the spectators and stock-gamblers.
2. That the credit of the nation is its most yaua
BILE possession, and that the efforts of the government
should be constanted directed to the improvement Of
its credit, to the end that its bonded debt may be re-
funded at = lower rsts OF interest
8 That, with the resfora ION OF the public credit,
the business banking should be made free, subjec
to the safeguards which now or may by prescrib
ed by law.
4 That all taxes imposed upon the people should
be adjusted solely with view 10 the raising OF rere
nle for the government, aud that there should be
material and speedy reduction in the existing rate
Of taxation both under the internal rovenue and the
tariff systems
As Newspaper
THE TRIBUNE claims ye-eni,e,cs among Western jour
aulS. 1t eqpends more money for news than any
other publication west of New York. 1t maintains
corps of correspondents and special reporters equal in
number and intelligence to those of amy New York
paper and by liberal of the telegraph, it is
aied brit before Western readers all the news Of
the day-poitical, commercial and mlsceiisneous-
tlr0 d1ys eIffter than Eastern Journal.
ITS Market Reports
Are unusually full and minute. The great CONNER
cal staples of the West which of especial interest
to its readers and which, in Eastern paI es are
sariIy limited omitted altogether miEutely
considered, and the Western farmer trader gains
this information from Chicago days earlier than
he get it from and Eastern paper, even if he finds
Ii tltere a alt The telegraph market reports eff The
TaIBuNE embrace every commercial centre OF Europe
.ad the United States which can have any influence
pon Western produce trade industry. Its reports
of the cattle DtGrhetS of Chicago and the principal
Eastern cities prepared with the utmost care by
spe al reborters OF long experience and training. Ii
Agricultural Departments
The WEEELy TRIGuSE viii have the services of its
well known correspondent Rural ana Will, IN ad-
diton, contain weekly summary of agricultural in
teiligcnce relating the latest and most approved
methods Of cultivation and all the scientific research
and practical experiments whose results of value
to agricultural, horticultural and stock raising
community i,ing upon tl rich prairie lands Of TIC
West.
New Features.
On the list of January ext several tap07tont chaa-
and Improvements Will be made in the publication
of THE WEEKLY CHICAGO TTlBUNE. Increased satten
tion will be given to its literary and Ggiclt,rai de-
0HrtmsntS. The If the ireek, both local and
general, will lie carefully rewritten and condensed
down to the hour of going to press. and each nuuber
will contain original editorial and literary mater
which viii appear iii no other edition Of THE TRIB
wv. 1t is the determination of The publishers to
make ii second 10 jpt7Jd{ in the United States
fg1 paper and in order TO place it within the reach
of every Farmer, Mechanic Business Man and Family
in the West we have made the following extraordin-
airy schedule of prices for clubs, which, consider
ing the size of the sheet and the amount of reading
matter that it Elntaips, makes THE TRIBUNE ths
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