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good newspaper, and cannot bo trusted for 

 impartial and just comment upon current 

 events. It maintains with the old fervor and 

 will always defend the Republican principles 

 of equality and justice with which, under the 

 control of its illustrious founder, HORACE 

 GREELEY, it was, for over thirty years, 

 identified. But it values parties solely 

 as means for procuring honest govern- 

 ment on sound principles. For the parti- 

 sans who deplore exposures of corruption 

 or imbecility in high places as likely to hurt 

 the party and hinder their success in holding 

 on to the offices who insist that a journal of 

 their faith must follow their lead, execute 

 their plans, and defend their acts, it has no 

 feeling save contempt. Standing by its old land- 

 marks, it defends the constitutional guarantees 

 to the liberty of the citizen and the sacredness of 

 the Nation's faith with its creditors, in- 

 sists on the duty of Protection to American 

 Industry, champions all proper measures for 

 developing the material resources of the 

 country, urges wise means for restricting the 

 evils of Intemperance, seeks sedulously to 

 foster the commanding interests of Manufac- 

 tures and Agriculture. But it holds itself 

 aloof from all entangling alliances, waits 

 on no Caucus or Convention for its 

 opinions, aims to judge every polit- 

 ical act, of whatever party, separately 

 as it arises, on its own merits, and maintains the 

 liberty of candid and impartial criticism. During 

 the present session of Congress its telegraphic 

 reports from Washinirton, where it maintains 

 the strongest force of experienced corre- 

 spondents ever assembled there in the 

 interests of a single journal, will be 

 found incomparably more valuable and 

 more interesting than those of any of its 

 cotemporaries. And finally, in the editorial 

 discussion of public affairs, THE TRIBUNE en- 

 deavors to combine the utmost frankness of 

 expression and independence of thought with 

 a strict impartiality of judgment and that disr- 

 nity and refinement of language which befit a 

 family newspaper. It wastes no space in 

 wrangling with other papers, pays no atten- 

 tion to personal abuse, and reserves its col- 

 umns for its readers' interests, not its Editor's 

 grievances. 

 That there is a popular appreciation of that 



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sort of independent, vigorous, enterprising, and 

 high-toned journalism of which THE TRIBUNE 

 is now the chief representative in this or any 

 other country, is sufficiently proved by the re- 

 sults of the past twelve months. The close of 

 1873 finds this paper more prosperous than it 

 has been at any previous period of its history, 

 and the new year opens for it with the most 

 brilliant prospects. In a short time its mechan- 

 ical facilities will surpass those of any other 

 journal in the world ; and on the completion 

 of its new and magnificent building it will bo 

 enabled to introduce various improvements of 

 the most important character. 



THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. 



THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE has grown very 

 rapidly in public favor of late. In addition 

 to a careful summary of the news it contains 

 all the best of the foreign and domestic cor- 

 respondent and leading articles of the Daily: 

 it gives specially the scientific intelligence 

 (including the proceedings of all American 

 scientific societies), with the best of the 

 book reviews, and the miscellaneous mat- 

 ter relating to education, tho arts, re- 

 ligion, &c. It has all the commercial 

 news and market reports ; all the agri- 

 cultural articles of the Weekly ; and gives, 

 moreover, regularly a serial work of fiction, 

 presenting in the course of the year three or 

 four of the latest productions of the most 

 popular novelists. As it takes only a few se- 

 lect advertisements, it is enabled to give an. 

 unusually large proportion of reading matter, 

 and may be called, considering the extent and 

 variety of its contents, the cheapest news- 

 paper in the world. It is published every 

 Tuesday and Friday, and reaches nearly every 

 post-office east of the Mississippi within one 

 or two days of its issue. 



THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. 



THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE has been for the 

 space of a generation the Farmer's favorite 

 paper. Besides a complete condensation of 

 the news of the week, a selection of literary 

 and miscellaneous reading, and a full page of 

 the best editorials from the Daily, it contains 

 in every number a greater amount of agricul- 

 tural matter than is furnished by any distinc- 

 tively agricultural paper. This is prepared 

 expressly for its columns by the best agricul- 

 tural writers and practical farmers in the 



