The National tribune., 1883-09-06
done. Great newspapers are never creatures
of accident, but of principle and purpose,
and no more than any other great creations
do they attain their full stature in day!


Now that autumn is at hand, the harvest
nearly completed, money beginning to cir
culate freely again, and farmers as well as
townsfolk once more have some leisure mo-
ments on their hands, we look to see the
friends of THE TRIBUNE renewing their
efforts to build up its circulation to one
hundred thousand The inducements TO do
so are incomparably greater than they were
a year ago.
In the first place, THE TRIBUNE itself is
a very much more interesting and valuable,
as well as larger and better printed, news
paper than it was then, although the price
of subscription has not been advanced, and
by so much is the more deserving of being
widely read
In the second place. the benefcent results
of its labors in behalf of our ex-soldiers are
at last clearly recognizable by everybody,
not merely in the building up of the Grand
Army, the unifcation of Woman's Auxiliary
work, and the promotion of veteran Reunions,
but in the unprecedented revival throughout
the country of the old spirit of comradeship
and the determination-so sadly needed
of our veterans to take concerted action for
the recognition and enforcement of their
rights In other words, THE TRIBUNE has
brought once more into intimate association
and sympathy with each other thousands of
comrades hitherto estranged by time and
distance, and has made it possible for them to
combine for their mutual benefit, and exert
their due influence in public affairs. Indi-
yidually they may be no more potent to
| direct public opinion and shape ma
tional legislation than they were year ago,
but no intelligent observer of current events
will question the fact that collectively they
have developed a surprising degree of
strength rs an element of nearly every COM
munity. But we need not dwell on this
point; our subscribers must have seen for
themselves the saiutary effect which the
! influence of THE TRIBUNE has had upon
the interests of the soldier, for that has been
as marked in local as in national sense
In the third place, THE TRIBUNE has
now the prestige of a prodigious and rapidly
| increasing circulation to commend it. 1t
has reached and passed the halfway point
of $4,000 subscribers, and is now advancing
surely towards the goal of 100000 This
| circumstance alone gives it value such as
no other journal possesses for our veterans,
! since it is an assurance that its influence
! extends to every community in the land
and permeates the entire body of our yolun-
teer soldierly.
In the fourth place, in addition to all
these inducements growing out of what
THE TRIBUNE has already done and what
the enlargement of its resources viii yet
enable it to accomplish in behalf of the sol
der, must be mentioned the premiums
which 1t offers as some sort of compensa-
/ ton for the labor-though labor of love its
friends universally pronounce it-of obtain
ing new subscribers for it. These premiums
are not mere catch penny affairs, but are all
articles of real, intrinsic value. Chief among
| them are the volumes composing the series
of Campaigns of the Civil War" and "The
Navy in the Civil War,n-which are all
trustworthy narratives, and should be in the
library of every soldier and every Post,-and
the Waterbury watch, which is now univers-
ally conceded TO be as remarkable for the
excellence of its qualities as a timekeeper as
for the liberal terms at which it has been
offered to our subscribers
The fact is that in offering this watch as
premium for a club of ten new subscribers.
when it could not be had at any jewelers.
for less than $3.50, we did SO at an actual
loss, and it was for that reason that we set
the limit of this special offer at September
1st. 1t appears, however that many of our
subscribers who were anxious to take ad-
vantage of this offer were deferred by the
lack of time in which to raise clubs, and we
have therefore concluded to give them
another chance. From this date, then,
and until October 18th next we will
forward, free of cost, to any person who will
send us fifteen aeso subscribers, one of our
latest style Waterbury Watches inelosed in
handsome satin-lined case, and warranted
TO keep excellent time This offer does not
of course, apply to renewals, and while sub
seriptions may be sent in as they are OBJ
tanned and viii be duly credited to the club
to which they belong, they must all be in
by October 18TH. As the new postal notes
are now for sale at all money-order posi-
offices, the cost of remitting subscription
money will be less than ever before.
Plain Talk to Post Officials.
! Through correspondence with the assist
aut Acknowledgements of the various Depart
ments of the Grand Army, the attention O
THE TRIBUNE has recently been directed tC