The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-10

Tribune as Mr.. GREELEY conceived and
made it, and the Tribune as II is under JAY
GOULD and WH1TELAw REID, the men who
by dint of money and assurance have lifted
themselves into the place he left so wo-
fully vacant No longer the advocate Of
the people, the friend of the laborer, the
champion of the enslaved, the organ of
IDEAS, the herald of enfranchiscniont for
all men, and the earnest advocate of truth
and justice, the Tribune issues from the
tall tower. which it profanes HORACE
GREELEY name by calling his monument,
the toady of the rich, the fit bait OF n
stock gambler, the purveyor of gush and
flapdoodle, the organ OF cowardice and
surrender TO Philistinsm-no longer the
leader of the advance, but the sutler who
skulks in the rear and purveys cheap rum
and rotten cheese for the stragglers and
maliugerers. Horace GREELEY s Tribune,
which first worked for ideas and the peo-
pie, and rs n necessary and honorable con-
sequence for the money rewards of labor,
is now run by JAY GOULD MS n tender 20
his Wall street speculations. Instead Of
manfully appearing on one side or the
other in politics at "a critical time, II strad-
dies the fence and calls for bids for its
support. 1t abandons every aim OF its
past. links itself TO the greedy and osten-
tatious, truckles TO capital, forgets the
poor, loses all sympathy for the struggling
and oppressed, is without manliness,
thinly DISCUSSES its low ambitions, tries
To make itself II feeble shadow of English
models, mistakes buster for boldness and
impudcnce for honest daring. Instead of
penetrating 20 the hopes and sorrows and
aspirations which torture ana elate our
restless race, il offers sugar plums for their
ailments, and n philosophy that is not
grounded in thought, sympathy, or expe-
rience, for their instruction. Beside Hon
ACE GREELEY's Tribune, JAY GoULD's and
WHIrELAw REID Tribune, with its tall
tower and all its quadruple and quintuple
sheets. is rs UPPER HOLLAND to CARLYLE.
Mr.. GREELEY tells lis in the extract above
given that he did not expect the prosperity
OF those who appealed "to the gaiuful
arts whereby the cunning and powerful
few live sumptuously without useful labor.
and often amass wealth, by panderiug to
lnwless sensuality and popular vice. nor
did lie expect the success of those who had
asoft side for the liquor traffic" The writer
of this is now dead. The leading American
stock gambler. the man whom his words
best describe as living sumptuously with
out useful labor, who has done more to
corrupt our mercantile morals and blot
our credit than any other is his successor
and IN the cellar Of his pretended monu-
ment is barroom more frequented than
any other in the city. This reads like a
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Fame is indeed yapor, aud so scattered
to the winds is the hope or prophecy Of
Mr.. GREELEY that the paper, the title OF
having founded which he asked to be the
inscription on his tomb, would be guided
by larger wisdom, IA more unerring sa-
gacity to discern the right than that he
himself displayed IN its conduct.
Though Mr.. GREELEY was not what men
call practical man, yet under him the
Tribune made money and was valuable
property. Since his death, though il has
sacrificed honor and conviction TO gain
success, it has almost steadily lost money.
With all its show of prosperity. it is fail
ure. Jay GOULD can afford TO run il at IA
heavy loss for the subsidiary AID it gives
him in his speculations. The remaining
S'"'hhoiucis Nc cures hothliB ABOUT, ana
likely enough he would be glad TO smoke
them out and get their stock at trining
cost. A journal with the past record of
the Tribune can no more live without
ideas ana convictions, than "A man without
food. 1t must be leader of thought. an
advocate Of principle, and platform Of
honest discussion, or IT is nothing at all.
1t Will find that, III spite OF IL tall tower,
JAY GouLDs stocks to hypothecatc. and
the young editors gush to entrance school
girls. the wages of sin Is death.