New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-01-22
New: York Tribune,
1873,

Now, as heretofore, TEE TRIBUNE strives {
De nrst OF all and pre- eminently SescS p4per.
France a Republic-Englsnd ana Germ =
gradually permeated with Republican idess-
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp Of rule
too good for King and too weak for Repub
iican, who is unable to govern the great islant
that blocks the entrance to our Gulf Of MEXICO
and equally unable to give it up-the German
speaking peoples agitated by new Protestant
ism, separating from the See Of Rome on the
dogma of PaPa Infallibilisy and assuming to
recognize the ''Old Catholics''-the whole Con.
tlnent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas, philo-
sophlcai, theological, material, and the advances
OF Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that Shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
halt opened gates-Japan abolishing feudalism
and inviting Western civilization to irradiate
western commerce to enrich her long. hidden
emplre.such are phases oftbe news from abroad
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