The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-10
Horace Greeley's Tribune and Jay
GOuld's Tribune.

The late Horace GREELEY endured i'm his
day the blows of many opponents. His phil
anthropic schemes were rldicued. his ear
nestness was paroded, his personal habits
were caricaturcd. aud even the tones OF
his voice were mimickcd by testing de-
tractors. Yet while so seeming to make
light of HIM, there was no man in the
country who did not respect the editor of
the TrtbhUc. The blows he received he
could and did return, and that right man
fully. No stain of personal dishonor blot
ted his fame. Though h had desire for Of
hcr. which should express his partv's great
debt To HIM, yet HoRACE GREELEY never
truckled TO anybody. lie was without
greed. He had n real love for his fellow
men and desire 10 better their condition.
He did indeed fight the battle of the peo-
Pile. holding in equal honor the rich and
the poor.
lie therefore made the Tr.buhc what its
name implies, - pulpit from which to adj
dress the people, eXhort them to fulfil all
public and private duties, and defend
them against thn assaults Of their enemies
His paper led what We may call advanced
thought II moulded the opinions Of the
lNrA 'tii il'-t ftN4l ''i VIC y VI tli uhAA To-
day throughout the country thousands OF
men ia their thoughts nnd opinions. con-
scionsly or uncousciously, give evidenced
the influence of Horace GREELEY. TIL, Is
why his name lasts aud his career makes
pant OF the history of the American pco-
Pile. No one could fail To know where he
stood on every public question. and no one
could accuse him Of proslituting his pen
10 base aud mcrcenary ends.
1t is instructive al the present time when
HoRACE GREELEY, having thrown of the
harness of life. rests AT Greenwood. and
other and far different men control the I'ri-
biuc, to 20 back osce what were the aims
of the founder of that newspaper and of
the editor who gave 20 IL IT'S name and fur
nishen II with the impetus which sent il
along for several years after his death. In
his Recollections OF Busy Life" Mr..
GREELEY thus Enthusiastically tells Us
what he meant by the 1rtbtJte.
." The Irinlc, for example, now paws more
than one hundred Thousand dollars per nuuum
Tor intellectual labor repnuing includcGl IA and
about It's Office, ard one hundred thousand dol
lars more for spondelUe and tel,graphIpp
in other words, tor col Getting and transmitting
new. And, while rs income has cen largely
In reused irom year To- 'car ITS expenses have
tnat at the eio.e OF I'D. IN Witch IL. Tacciris
bad been OYER n.po hundred thousand do ll,rs,
amount oayns no prdlt beEomd a fair Ient for
NE gieHi,ei, H. oMned ana oeeuticd And ye5
done goUd business tnr incrcasr in he
p,unn4-G nnu NHue 81 tVs tsial lishment
ana might Wen Ce accepted in lieu Of a dNiIend'
~ IA lol lood tlnt ctm9., wan cheaper pAner
spatches from the Old Word. tney viii doubt
gss , fetg where lhe' nay. now Painfully s9wn.
nal r.dically hostile T." the gainfil arts whSreby
,nf cunl,hG t G4I howeIiul iew I'VE snmptlousy
hy pat derlng to wle.s scns1allty and DOB 'l.r
NrSl fah lever h,le to 9nrc9 is publishes So
ior tue liquor tr'nir and f,r ali kimdied allure
lhrhi7 10 cuIn,I aput 'itc and SENSUAL iudul-