New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-11
THE TRIBUNE as A NEWSPApER.

THE TRIBUNE as A EEWSPAPER.
We take pleasure in stating in answer to
the congratulations and inquiries OF numerous
friends, that the public is thoroughly aware Of
the extent and value Of the work now doing
by THE TRIBUNE. The healthy and regular
augmentation of our circulation has received
powerful stimulus in the last few weeks,
and our editions are now rapidly increasing
from day to day. Our sales for yesterday
and our orders for to-day exceed those for
any two days of the year. So much for our
material prosperity. We also take pleasure in
acknowledging with grateful appreciation tho
thousands of cordial expressions of approval
and good will which we daily receive from
those whose opinion is made valuable by their
character and intelligence.
We call attention TO the columns OF Ink
TEIBUNE for some time past, as presenting.
we believe, the evidence Of an achievement
entirely without parallel in the history OF
journalism We have printed day after day
the full verbatim report of all the various
meetings of the Evangelical Alliance, our re-
pOrters being sometimes dispersed through
half dozen meetings, and taking notes in as
many languages. The French German, and
Welsh meetings received as full attention as
the English. Every morning volume OF re-
ligiou5 literature has been presented to our
readers fresh from the lips or the pens
of the most eminent divnes OF the
world. In this work we have had literally
no competition. The other newspapers
gave up the unequal contest from the very
beginning. The reports of The TRIBUNE are
on scale larger than has ever been attempted
by any journal. Such leading religious news
papers as The Evangelist The Independenf IRE
Bapdsg Weekly, Sc, have borne unrcseryed
testimony co the fact that no such mass oil
valuable religious intelligence has ever yet
appeared in any periodical, secular or religious
The collected reports of this Evangelical Con-
ference will ill some Thirty-two pages of TIKI
TRIBUNE, or nearly Two Hundred of our wide
| columns.
| While giving TO this grand Congress OF
! Professionalism the space to WHICH 1t Is entitled
! by its intrinsic importance, we have not sui
fered it to trench in the least upon other news.
On Thursday morning, for instance, while We
published exclusively the letter OF the Old
Catholics OF Germany, tue most moment0us
religious utterance Of the century, which was
read in the Alliance from a translation pre-
pared in this office, and also exclusively the
letter of Father Hyacinthe, THE TRIBUNE was
unnuestionably the best newspaper in general
topics. We printed in full the report of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, which
only one other paper found room
for; the full text of the arraiSn'
ment of Controller Green, which also
taxed too heavily the resources of most of our
neighbors and also fuller report of tho
Convention at Elmira than was elsewhere
furnished including the speeches Of the Tenn
] porary and Permanent Presidents, which were
found complete in no other journal. AT the
same time, the paper contained its usual sci
entifc and literary matter, its full tclegraphic
dispatches and foreign correspondence. In
like manner, few weeks ago, while TIE
| TRIBUNE was giving the only full and trust
worthy account of the great financial panic,
printing more valuable and far moro accurate
details about it than any other paper, it
did not relax its hold upon every other
branch of news. 1t never has sacrificed
the general field of cotemporaneous history
to any temporary speciality. 1t gives ell
the news, and besides gives the fullest details
of each leading subject of interest as it arises.
whether it be q Franco-German campaign, an
Alabama Treaty. the Farmers War, an Indian
battle, Polaris story, panic, or Protestant
conference. We will not enumerate further
instances of signal success during these last
months Every day has brought its duty and
the accomplishment of it. We merely add
these recent achievements TO the record Of
preceding ones, as proof that a newspaper
conducted upon sound business principles can
assume an almost incalculable addition to its
daily work without being swamped by it.
1t has been the intention and purpose OF
the conductors of this journal to make it
absolutely and prominently the first nous
paper of the world. There was no conceal
ment of the purpose, and there need be no
concealment of the fact of its accomplishment.
THE TRIBUNE has indicated its right tn that
title, and we intend that it shall never lose it.