New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-19
New York Tribune.
1873.

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be first OF all and pre- eminently netcs paper.
France a Republie-England and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of a ruler
too good for a King and too weak for Repub.
lican, who is unable to govern the great island
that blocks the entrance to our Gulf of Mexico,
and equally unable to we it up-the German
speaking peoples aeitated by a new Protestant
ISM separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papal Infallibility and assuming to
recognize the sold Catholics whole Con-
tinent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas, phlio-
sophical, theological, material, and the advances
Of Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-Chlna seeming
ready to abandon her advances and rcciose her
half opened gates-Japan abolishing teudallsm
and inviting Western civilization 10 irradate
| Western commerce to enrich her long hidden
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