Litchfield enquirer., 1874-12-24
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THE TRIBUNE FOR 1875.
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The TRIBUNE as the '1eading American newspaper" has come to be generally re- cognized. It bitterest foes, while assail- ing it as fercely as old on political or otll1 CT grounds, never now question its pre- eminence as a newspaper. It is confes- sedly the foremost i'll the country. It has won the position, and it means to hold 1t by the employment of the best ability, by the most watchful. conscientious atten- tion, and by the most lavish expenditure of money to procure whatever money will buy, in It's readers service. It's expendi- lures in this way during the past year were over One Million and a Half of Dollars. For the results of thls outlay 1t asks from each..single subscriberl to the WEEKLY, Two Dollars; fromgeaeh subscri- Der in Club of thirty or more, One Dol lar; and it pays the postage itself.
 The events of 1874 have vindicated TIE TRIBUNE's political course, as well az it's newspaper superiority. Maintaining, with all it's old tervor, those Republican principles of equality and justice with which, under it's illustrious founder, it was for thirty years identified, it neverthe- less warned the country that the party in power had, ill long course of prosperity, grown reckless and corrupt. The people
 
 resented the warning. At last it was seen the THE TRIBUNE, as usual, was merely 8 few years in advance of it's time. The people have come up to it. They have not decided to put the old anti-War Dem ocracy i'll power, nor even to abandon the Republican organization. They have simply gwen warming. They have come, with THE TRIBUNE, to hold mere party ties as of infinitely less consequence than the attainment of pure government on sound principles. They stand by their old landmarks, and will defend the con- stitutional guarantees to the liberty of the citizen, and the sacredness of the Ma tions faith with its creditors. But, like THE TRIBUNE, they have lost faith in the hot partisans who insist on strict obedl- ence to the dictates of the caucus, and who value party, not for its principles but chiefly for its offices. They recognize that the new conditions of the country have brought new needs and new duties: that parties cannot live forever on their past, no matter how glorious; and that the men to be trusted with the Govern ment should be men who have showE an understanding of the popular wants, rath CT than men who have understood how to pack caucuses and manage conventions. 1t has thus come about that in nearly every instance this year the political re- commentators of THE TRIBUNE have re- ceived the seal of popular approval.
 HE TRIBUNE can never be a neutral III politics; but 1t maintains its independence of any partisan dictation. It believes the mere organ of politicians can never be good newspaper or deserve the popular trust. It aims to judge every act of what ever party solely on its individual merits; condemns the President where 1t thinks him wrong; holds fast to its long-avowed principles, and values any party only as a means for attaining their triumph; waits oR no caucus for its opinions; suffers no partisan need to color it's news or warp its utterance, and maintains, in the interest of it's readers, the liberty of candid and impartial criticism of their rulers. It en- deavors to combine the utmost frankness and independence with judicial fairness; keeps it's columns free from all low abuse and personal wrangllng, has no quarrels with other papers, and never replies to or even notices their perpetual attacks,-re- serving all the space usually wasted i'll this way, for matter it's readers want
 From those who believe such a journal desirable visitor in their families, THE TRIBUNE soliclts a continuance of the popular favor it has so conspicuously en- joyed in the past, and never more con spicously than during the hard times of the year 1874. It has reduced it's rates thirty cents on each weekly (by prepaying postage, 20 cents, and waiving the old charge for separate addresses to club sub scribers, 10 cents), and it asks those who think we'll of it to reciprocate by kindly efforts to increase its circulation.
 THE WEEKY TRIBUNE has been for the space of generation the Farmers favor ite paper. Besides complete condensa- tion of the news of the week, Q selection of literary and miscellaneous reading, and a full page of the best editorials from the Daily, 1t contains in every number q greater amount of agricultural matter than is furnished by any distinctiveiy ag- ricultural paper. This is prepared ex- pressly for its columns by the best agri- cultural writers and practical farmers in the United States; while among the dis tinguished regular contributors to the Agricultural Department are numbered such men as Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard University, the Hon. George Geddes, Onaga County, N. R Prof C.. V. Riley, St. Louis, Joseph Hoopes, l.. B. Arnold and others. As its contributors are in every part of the country, 1t will be found equally valuable in New England, in the south, on the Pacific slope, or Ill the Mis- slssipi Valley. Great attention is paid to all subjects connected with the Farm. the Garden, and the Household, and me of the original articles every week are illus trated with wood-cuts. The market quo- tations of farm produce, cattle, provisions, breadstuffs, dry goods, and all kinds of merchandise, are exceedingly full and scrupulously accurate. The utmost care is bestowed upon the typographical ar engagement of the paper. and the print is always clear and legible, and generally larger than that of any other New York paper.
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