The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-02


| him TO look sharp that his definition of sanity
| is lax enough to keep his patients in mi
| nority; but useless for every other purpose
| except. as we have said, to point politicians
| confession that his partys power Is to be con-
| tested now on new issues.
FRENCH CABLE-MODERN PROGRESS.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
The French Atlantic cable makes satisfac-
tory progress In a day or two the Great
Eastern will be off the banks of Newfound-
land and sooner than we expect the connec-
ton will be complete between st. Pierre and
Brest. A miserable, narrow-minded set of
monopolists may for time prevent the land
ing of this cable on the, territory of the
United States; but no monopoly, no power in
the United States no power in the world can
prominently stand in the way of progress
and progress insists on landing this cable on
our shores. 1t is useless otherwise, and the
common sense of the people of the United
States will not allow this great enterprise,
with which their own future prosperity and
greatness are so much identified, to end in
failure. We cannot have too many cables
The more the merrier, and the better too.
Ten years hence it will not be wonderful if
more than dozen cables bind Europe and
America together. Portugal and Spain and
Germany will become rivals of England and
France in this matter, and as we cannot lose,
but gain, by such enterprise, it is our duty to
give every encouragement to those who by
steam or electricity multiply our connections
with the Old World
This fresh attempt to annihilate distance
and time is richly suggestive. 1t is another
of the many indications which every day is
furnishing that ours is the central continent,
and that the centre of our continent is the
United States. Two cables connect us with
Great Britain. In a few years these will be
found insufficient for the manifold require
ments of public and private business Great
Britain has, besides, her almost countless
lines of steamships, which keep up almost
daily communication between the two conti-
nents. France, under the inspiring genius of
Napoleon, has become envious of British supe-
riority in this direction. France has, in con-
sequence, established her line of steamboats,,
which have been largely successful; and
France has now 50 far put in execution her
purpose to have a telegraphic as well as a
steamboat connection with the centre of the
New World. Germany has her numerous
steamboats, on the same pathway. These are
sure to increase in number, and a German
cable is as certain as that Germany, at no dis
tant day, is destined to be the first power in
Europe. On different pathways Spain and
Portugal have been successful in establishing
steam communication with the New World.
A cable connection between Lisbon and Rio
Janeiro may be regarded as probability in
the early future. Spain, if she were out of
her trouble, would be found as eager as any
of her neighbors to be in electric communica-
ton with her many children on the American
Continent, north and south simultaneously
with this European eagerness to benefit by the
New World, and chiefly with the United
States we find the tide of civilization turned,
and Asia, which in all past time has sent her
hordes westward, is now, in spite of the
mighty waters, sending them eastward. BY
our late war we commanded the attention of
the world. Our success in that struggle
elected universal admiration and respect.
| Our growing prosperity since the close of the
| war has exercised a talismanic power on all
the seaboard populations of Western Europe
| and Eastern Asia. In popular estimation the
great republic of the New World, stretching
as it does from sea to sea, and comprising
territory which, in mineral and agricultural
wealth, de6es all comparison, has come to be
regarded as the home of the blessed BY the
populations of Europe and by the popu-
lations of Asia the ocean has been looked
upon as a barrier keeping them from
happiness and prosperity. The Europeans,
with grander appliances, have had
less difficulty in overlapping the barrier and
transporting themselves to the much desired
Ell Dorado of the West. The Asiatics, with
fewer and less perfect means of transit, have
triumphed in a more signal manner, and given
fresh proof to the world that ''where there is a
will there is a way" In spite OF the barriers OF
ocean, they come from the east, and they come
from the west; they come in large and ever
| increasing numbers. Their coming begets no
| jealousy, and it should not, for there is room
| enough, and to spare, and no amount OF IN
| crease to our population can exhaust our ap-
| parently inexhaustible fulness. Our lakes and
our rivers, our virgin fields and our unopened
mines of silver and gold and precious stones
still cry 'fOome." Nature to us has been pro-
digal of her favors; and the thrift and in
| dustry which we import from other lands only
help us to know what we are and to look for
ward with wonder and amazement to what we
| may become.
There are those who look with alarm to our
| future. They cannot see how permanent
unity can be found compatible with popula-
| ton SO mixed as ours is destined to become.
| All manner of divisions fit before their eyes,
| Such persons forget that the unity OF the re-
public can never again be question. Inc
| late war settled this question of unity once
and forever. If anything was left undone by
the late war, that has been done by the Paclhc
| Railroad. Such lines of communication Will
be multiplied in all directions, North,
South. East, and West. Union on a large
scale is a growing characteristic of the
times. Union, in fact, is the natural pro
duct of steam, electricity, and the news
paper Those grand modern agents make
the interests of the one and the interests
of the many identical. The influx of the
races of Europe and the influx of the races OF
Asia will but develop our wealth. They can
never disturb the unity of the republic OIL
change the character of our civilization. Ou1
Christian civilization will take new and higher
forms, but it will never go backward. The
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