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Show i New York is the capital of tlio United States. TVpYV Yorlt " '' 'onS 'nce sucweilM 1'hiladclphin and lloston ns the pro-cmiutnt city of the and country. 1-jnr As great ns it tho conmieroiol nnd finnn- AJK-r tial importanui oLowJ'orli,4ltit ool-tlioM ProLllcmS tncion nlono thnt make tho city a capital. It It tho rcpremnlntlon of n particular qua!- ity in its population that it tho real cause ByDr.NICilOLASM.BUTLM. of ill pre-cininciice. rrulitst MsBtuVaimiiir. 'I'lio result of tho magnetic power of New I York to draw tho liett from everywhere to itself has g'nen lo it n largo group of selcn-iiti, selcn-iiti, men of letters, artists and commercial nnd financial leaders, that will itrengtlicn each jear the right of the city to lie recogniied nt the capital. In no ono field of work is tint moro true than in tho publishing ImiincM, for inttnnce. Tliousnndt of hooks, inngniiiiM nnd noHtpapcrs aro tent hroadcatt from hero each jenr over the world, bearlng tho Impress of Now York's judgment nnd jioint of view. Capital cities nro mott setcre critics of thcinwltes. Their men and their press point out etils nnd iiglim-M thnt to nn outsider would neter lie obtencd. The situation, nioreour, in a capital city is neter to had ns tho people who live in it think. I-ew iinporlnnt places naturally boast more. 4 Cnpital cities nlttnjs Unr a disproportionate tlmro of national respon. Nihilities and duties. Their population is heterogeneous nnd their problems prob-lems aro corresjiondlngly severe. Now York, with the most hetcrogeneout 'population of nny city in tho world, hns tho most difllcult problems of nil. If tho population of New York goes on Increasing at tho present rato it -m, 111 he, before tho cud of another gencrntion, u city of 10,000,000 people. peo-ple. Ccrlnlnly tho territory Immediately turrounding tlio water front of New York Hay will within thnt tlmo see to enormous a mass of people gathered together. With a city of so ntt n tiio even now In sight tho pressuro of tho problems of goternment, education nnd cten mure Hung, becomes moro ind more setcre. Now is the time for broad-minded men lo plnn for tlio future. Now is tlio time to plan railway ter- " minols, dock sjitoms, great public buildings, nnd $.' that which nboto all else will require the liest $XVfi ihought that can be giten to It, the establishing W$&' 9 of a strong but clastic form of government that Fji&Bij) ill harmonize nnd umfj tha mnnj elements of tho Vgl city. $5 |
