The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-14

precision by supply and demand. The
worlds selling prices arc regulated by
market ard crop reports. We travel
greater Distances IN n shorter space or
time and with more case than was
cvcr dreamed of by the fathers. lgo-
| lation is no longer possible or dcsir-
able. The same important news is
read, though in different languages,
tn same day in all Christorlum The
| telegraph keeps us advised of what Is
| occurring everywhere, and the press
! foroshddows. with more or less a"cdr-
acy, the plans and purposes Of the
nations. Market prices of products
and of securities are hourly known in
every commercial market and the in
vestments of the people extend beyond
their own national boundaries into the
remotest parts of the earth Vast
transactions are conducted and inter-
national exchanges are added by the
tick of the cable. Every event of in
tcrret is Immediately bun 'tincd.
"rhe quick gathering and transmits
siuu of news. like rapid transit, are of
recent origin and are only made pos
,ibc by the genius of the inventor and
;he courage Of the investor. 1t took
special messenger of the government,
with every facility at the time for
rapid transit. nineteen days to go from
the city of Washington to New Orleans
with a message to General Jackson
that the war with England had ceased
and a treaty nf peace had been signed,
How different now, We reached Cen
eral Miles i'm Porto Rico by cable ana
he was ahl'. through the military
t"lt graph to stOp the army on the
firimg line with the message that the
United states and Spain had signed II
protocol SuSprnding hostilities. We
knew almost instantly of the first
shots cred at Santiago and the subse-
nuont surrender of the Spanish forces
was known at Washington within less
than an hour of its Consummation. The
first ship of Ccrvcra's fleet had hardly
ome rCod from that historic harbor
when tho fact was flashed to our Capi-
tai, and the swift destruction that
followed was announced Immediately
through the Wonderful medium of tcle-
eraphy.
so accustomed are We to safe and
easy communication with distant
points that its temporary interruption,
"trn in ordinary times. results in loss
and Inconvenience. We shall never
forget the waiting and the awful sus-
pnHSc when no information was per-
mitted to be sent from pCkin and
th' diplomatic representatives of the
nations in China. shut off from all
communication inside and outside of
the walled capital, were surrounded by
AN angry and misguided mob THAI
threatened their lives. nor the joy that
thrilled the world when a single mes
yaG" from the government Of the
United states brought through our
minister the first news of the safety
of the b5sieg ID Gn.lomatS. At the be
ginning of the Nineteenth century
there was not mile of steam railroad
on the globe. Now there are enough
~ make its circuit So e,al times. God
ani OaE have linked the nations to-
Gether. No nation can longer be indif-
fercnt tn any other. And as we are
brought more and more into communi.
cation with each other the less occa-
son is there for MISUNDERSTANDING
and the stronger the disposition, when
we have differences, to adjust them in
the court of arbitration. which is the
rphlest forum for the settlement Of in
tenatiOnal disputes"