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Show The discovery of gold in California set the country in action under high pressure. Thousands came from distant shores and the energies of the American people were taxed to their limit, and still there was a demand de-mand for goods which had to come from foreign shores, tariff or no tariff. In addtiion, the large foreign population pop-ulation sent their surplus earnings to relatives in Europe or the Orient and in a hundred different ways American gold went to develop the wild regions of the United States and hasten to our aid a vast population pop-ulation from other lands, which, with the exception of the Chinese, has assimilated with our people and given us a sturdy race of foster Americans, than whom there are none better qualified to enjoy the blessings of a republican form of government. Oden Standard. It is announced that a metropolitan metropoli-tan daily paper in Spanish, modeled on the American plan, will be started at the City of Mexico soon, aiuply backed by local capital. It will give special attention to interior Mexican news. It is reported that the government govern-ment has determined to withdraw its aid from a number of small papers pa-pers hitherto dependent upon it, and there is a flutter in maDy news-paper offices. There probably probab-ly will be a journalistic overturn in that city and be less papers, but larger and of better quality. There aro now twenty-two daily papers in the City of Mexico. |