The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-09-07

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4 Telegraph Gable marks new era IN the
history OF Human Progress. Henceforth, Es-
rope, Western Asia, and Northern Africa he
within an hours distance from our shores, and
tAe battle which decides the fate of kingdom.
the capture of Vienna or Gibraltar, the fall
| ofa dynasty, the triumph of a usurpation, the
| birth of an heir to royalty, the death Of Vic
| holas or Wellington, in any country which
| touches. the Mediterranean, the EuXine, the
/ Black Sea or the German Ocean, VIII be pub
| lished in New York the next morning, If not
Oh the very day of IFS occurrence. In me-
ment, as it were, we have been tarown into the
| Immediate intellectual neighborhood of the
whole civilized and a large portion of the semi
/ barbarous world The rise and fall of stocks
in London or Paris viii henceforth be reported
from day TO day in the journals of our seaboard
| cities The boldest operators in Wall street
win refuse TO buy or sell until they have read
the quotations of that days business en- the
| Royal Exchange and at the Bourse, whose
transactions viii have closed an hour or so be.
fore ours can begin. A revolution in Paris, an
| importont vote in Parliament, an instruction
III Italy, fire in Constantinople, viii be dis
! cussed around the breakfast tables of New Y ork
4 few hours after its occurrence. A mighty
! though silent Transformation in the conditions
| of human existence has Just been effected by
the little wire stretching across the oceans bed
|
| America, and one inevitable result OF this must
be an unexampled community of feeling and
interest among the nations of Christendom, and
a consequent desire for a more intimate ac-
quaintance with each others doings through
the medium of the Newspaper Press. 1t seeTns
| hardly possible that thousands should not
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Issue will now require a Semi Weekly or
| Daily. In short, Intelligence, always a vital
| element Of growth III wisdom, success in bust
ness, or enjoyment in life, has nsw become
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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, now
| more than seventeen years old, which was the
first journal in the world that appeared regu-
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unparalleled aggregate of more than 5000
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the new patronage which the METROPOLITAN
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patronage and active favor of Republcans-of
those who hate all forms of oppression, and
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| 'Xtend Liberty and limit Slavery-but it fur
Their appeals likewise to all who look and labor
for the return of ational thrift, plenty, pros
pcrity, through the Protection of American
Industry by wisely discriminating duties on
| Imports-all who favor National Progress
through internal development and Moderation
rather than by external aggression and extern
sion-all who would rather have the National
| resources devoted to the construction of rail-
road TO the Pacific than to tbs purchase or con-
quest Of Mexico, Nicarauga or Cuba-all whe
would retrench radically our present inerdi-
nate Federal expenditures by abolishing or
immensely reducing the Army and Navy. and
expanding the money thus saved oa works of
benefcence which win endure to bless oar
children-all who profoundly realize that
Righteousness exalteth a nation" and that
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ses achieved by means which contravene the
laws OF Eternal Right. The free allotment of
limited portions of the Public Lands to Actual
Settlers thereon, and every hopeful plan intend
ed TO diminish the sum of human misery from
dearth Of employment or Inadequate recon-
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