The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-28


Telegraph Exteasioa aud Cheaper Telesrams.
From Europe to the interior Of Asia, from
the coast of Africa to the Antipodes, and from
the shore Of New Zealand to San Francisco
and New York, IL repeated and re-echoed the
cry for extension of the telegraph and more
universal instantan eous communication. The
vast triumphs which mind has already OBJ
tanned over matter do not satisfy the yearning
OF humanity for more generous and compre-
hensive civilization. Mankind seems to re-
quire new communion, the identity Of
thought-and consequent dissemination of all
the peoples-by electricity.
We published an article from New Zealand
journal q few days since setting forth the
anxiety with which the inhabitants of that
colony watched for news Of the progress of the
Pacific Railroad towards completion, and evil
dencing how accurately they estimate the
value Of every new route, by land or
water, which is proposed as likely to
bring them nearer to America by
telegraphic communication. Recently we
gave, on English authority, statement of the
progress, with an outline of the plans, of the
Indo-European Telegraph Company, which has
undertaken to run telegraph from the coast
Of Great Britain, through Germany, to the
Crimea, the Caucasus and the capital of
Persia, and thence, with the aid Of the govern
ment in Hindostan, by land wire and deep sea
cable, to Kurrachee, on the Indian Ocean.
Other great trunk lines Of telegraph are pro-
posed, from which, in the course of few
years. will come an arterial radiation of news
and general intelligence so regularly and
rapidly that not only will all the business of
commerce and finance be transacted by the
wires, but an American contemplating grand
foreign tour will order his dinner and suite of
apartments in some city near the great wall
of China before he leaves his home here, and
Macaulays New Zealander can have q de-
scription of the ruins to be seen from London
Bridge transmitted to him at Tongarero, should
he feel indisposed to visit revolutionized
Britain. Great newspapers, like the HERALD
and London Times, will present a telegraph
resume of the affairs of the globe to their
readers every morning, and many causes Of
war and social convulsion will be removed by
explanation or redress of wrongs within the
hour in which they originate.
Science, aided judiciopsly by capital, will
perfect all this and more, and it behooves the
governments, or those who affect to understand
the science Of rendering the millions happy, to
take instant measures, 80 that the peoples may
enjoy the benefits of the grand result har-
moniously, without confusion and at the least
possible cost. Should the telegraph, as an
instrument of general enlightenment, speak to
the world suddenly and without well matured
executive control, it will create modern
Babel at first and then degenerate into an
extended RIGHTEOUSNESS. If capitalists are per-
mitted to monopolize Its agency they will make
1t mere matter of dollars and pounds sterling,
and thus shut out the masses of the people from
its light, and by so doing render them irritable
and discontinued with their lot in life. The
movement now on foot in the United States and
England for the obtainment of cheap kilograms,
and a government management of the tele-
graphs should, therefore, be encouraged and
sustained by all who wish well to good order,
morality and humanity.