The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-23

The Herald Keeping Pace with the Ia.
terPrise OF the American People.
For the past four years the enterprise OF the
American nation has been tremendous. Reused
to unparalleled activity by the necessities Of
the recent gigantic war, our people covered
the land with immense armies and the sea with
fleets Of vessels; they invented improvements
in arms and created iron-clads impervious to
shot and shell; they produced the greatest
generals the world has ever seen and manu-
featured cannon Of equally immense calibre.
At the close Of the war the energies thus
aroused were directed to other and more bene-
acent fields Of enterprise. The public mind Is
filed with Titanic projects, which are being
carried out with wonderful vigor. Although
the English have failed to lay the Atlantic tele-
graph, the Americans are certain to succeed in
erecting their portion Of the overland route
from Russia, and they will soon complete the
Pacific Railroad While the miraculous de-
velopments In petroleum astonish us here, the
discoveries of innumerable mines Of gold and
silver at the West are no less amazing. The
North 6ourishes with unequalled wealth and
prosperity, and in another year the regenerated
South will compete with us in the race of pro-
gress. Upon every hand we see countless evil
dences of new and powerful speculative
spirit, which disdains to dabble in stocks, but
deals directly with the mighty events of the
present and the future. Money is so plentiful
that it is no longer thought extraordinary when
few of our citizens subscribe twenty thousand
dollars to receive a popular general, or one
hundred thousand dollars to rebuild q popular
church. The tabled marvels of the era of the
South Sea bubble are eclipsed by the realities
of the present generation.
1t is the duty of great public journal to
keep pace with the progress of the age and the
enterprise of the people. The London Times,
which was once the great paper of the world,
has fallen into the second rank since the in
vention OF the magnetic telegraph, because it
did not understand and perform this duty; and
when the present generation of Englishmen
shall have passed away the Times will be obso-
lete, and one of its more enterprsing rivals like
the Telegraph, will supersede it in influence, as
it is already surpassed in circulation. The New
YORK HERALD, on the contrary, has grown with
the growth of the country. As we look back
over its files for the past twenty-five years we
find it the index of the history of the republic,
and can almost trace the increase of the United
States in the increase OF the HERALD's size.
We have been extremely successful; but we
are not satisfied to rest upon our laurels and
boast of what we have already achieved.
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must change and improve with the changes and
improvements Of the age Ifgovernments fail
to do this there comes revolution, such as that
which cost King Charles his head. or that which
cost the Bourbons their throne. Ii journals fail
to do this they die out. II may take few
certain. We did not establish the HERALD to
make money out OF it and then relinquish it for
an official position, and thus leave it to expire
in other hands, as has been the case with many
newspapers We believe that in q country like
this the conductor of great public journal
outranks the officials whom he assists to create,
and is more powerful than their President Our
ambition, therefore, has never led us outside of
the legitimate path of our profession; but it
constantly urges US to use every exerti0n to
make the best possible paper, and to take ad-
vantage of every invention, every discovery
and every innovation which can assist us in
this object We are not content with what has
been accomplished, but we press forward with
the progressive spirit Of the people and the
age.
First among the improvements which we
now propose is the erection, on the corner Of
Ann street and Broadway of new HERALD
Office, to be built of American marble, and in
the style Of the Louvre. This will be the most
complete and the most splendid newspaper
establishment in the world, and one of the
handsomest edifces in the country. News
papers have suffered too long in public estima-
ton from their obscure and contracted QUAR-
tcrs. When the Jews lent money in dingy
Offices, located In out-oEthe-way lanes and
alleys they were denounced as vile usurers;
but now that gentlemen carry on the same
business in magnificent buildings, publicly
situated, they are respectable bankers. When
some Of our leading citizens sold dry goods in
little wooden shops they were termed "counter
Jumpers and pedlers of tape; but now that
they have accommodated their increased trade
In vast marble stores they wear the title Of
merchant princes. The present HERALD build
ings are Of large size, and compose the most
comfortable newspaper Office in the city; but
they are far too small for our business. We
have been cramped in them for several years,
and we have purchased the adjacent property,
summoned our architects to make surveys, and
tried every plan 70 enlarge them sufficiently;
but in vain. Our natural reluctance to leave
. location so familiar to US and TO the public
has been overcome by the necessities Of our
Journal which now demand that building
shall be erected with special reference to the
requirements Of ib varied departments With
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