Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-19
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, 1872.

The consolidation of Italy, so long frag-
mentary and impotent, into one powerful State,
with Rome as It's capital; the humiliation of
France through a series of crushing defeats,
| ending with 1.-The siege and capitulation of her
proud and gay metropolis the expulsion of
the Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and
the substitution for them of scion Of the most
liberal among royal houses the virtual abb
sorptlon OF the kingdoms Of Saxony, Hanover,
Bavaria, with Baden, Hesse, the Hanse Towns.
Sc, under the headship OF Prussia, into the
triumphant and powerful empire of North Ger
many and the arming ofRussia TO reassert her
preponderance in the councils of Europe, or
70 prosecute her often postponed but never re-
linqushed designs on the great city founded
by Constantine and the vast but decaying and
anarachial dominion of the Sultan, all combine
TO invest with profound interest the ever
changing phases of our tidDgs from the Old
Verdi THE TRIBUNE, through trusted cor
respondents stationed at all points in Europe
where great movements are in progress or i'm
lnent, aims 10 present complete and instruct
i've panorama Of events on that continent, and
to mirror the prolonged struggle between mid
die-age Feudalism and Ecclesiasticism on the
one hand and Nineteenth Century skepticism
and secularism on the other. Recognizing
Divine Providence in all that proceeds and is,
itIlooks hopefully on the great conflict as des-
tined (hke our own recent convulsions) to
evolve from strife, disaster, and seeming cha
os, fairer and happier future for the toiling
masses Of mankind
In our own country, a war upon rascality
and corruption has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State
has been revolutionized through an initial tri-
umph of Reform which surpasses the most
sanguine anucipations. II is morally certain
that the movement thus inaugurated cannot, in
It's progress, be circumscrlbec 10 any locality
or any party, but that its purifying influence
u destined to be felt in every part of the I'm
ion, rebuking venality, exposing robbery,
Wrestling power from politicians by trade, and
confiding II in those worthiest and fittest to
WELD II. To this benefcent and vitality need
ed Reform, The Tribune will devote its best
energies, regardless of personal interests or
party predictions, esteeming the choice OF
honest and faithful men to Office as Of all New
Departures the most essential and auspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party Of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less OF Color has Invested our current politics
OF half their bygone intensity. However par
ties may henceforth rise or fall, it is clear
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto houorably distinguished the Repub-
licans are hencefor,h to be regarded as prac-
tically accepted by the whole country. The
ews-the equality Of all citizens before the
law-the inability Of State to ensave any
portion Of its people-the duty of the Union
to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he forieits il by crime
such are the broad and firm foundations OF
our national ediice and palsied be the hand
which shall seek to displace them! Though
not vet twenty years old, the Republican par
ty has completed the noble fabric of Emanci-
patton, and may fairly invoke thereon the
sternest Judgment Of Man and the benignant
smile Of God.
Henceforth the mission Of our Republic is
one Of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
weak and the humble from violence and OPP
pressOn-to extend the boundaries and difFnse
the blessings of Civiization-to stimulate In
genuity to the production of inventions for
economizIng Labor and thus enlarging Pro-
duction-to draw nearer to each other the pro-
ducers OF Food and of Fabrics, of Grains and
OF Metals, and thus enhance the gains of In
dustry by reducing the cost of transportation
and exchanges between farmers and artisans
such is the inspiring taskto which this Nation
now addresses itself, and by which il would
fam contribute to the progress, enlightenment
and happiness of our race. To this great and
good work, The TRIBUNE contributes its
Jealous, persistent efforts.
Agriculture will continue to be more spe.
cially elucidated in its Weekly and Semi
Weekly editions, to which some of the ablest
and most successful tillers of the soil will
steadily contribute. No farmer who sells $500
worth of produce per annum can afford TO do
without our Market Reports, or others equal
ly lucid and comprehensive. If he should read
nothing else but what relates to his own CALI
ing and its rewards, we believe that no farm
er who can read at all can afford to do without
such journal as THE TRIBUNE. And we as
pire to make it equally valuable to those en-
gagged in other departments OF Productive La
Dor. We spend more and more money on our
columns each year, as our countrymen's gen.
erous patronage enables US to do and we are
resolved that our Issues of former years shall
be exceeded in varied excellence and interest
by those Of 1872. Friends in every State help
us TO make our journal better and better, by
sending in your subscriptions and increasing
your Clubs for the year just bafore US