In this same year Henry Clay delivered his memorable speech on the Mexican War, at Lexington, Kentucky, and it was telegraphed to The New York Herald at a cost of five hundred dollars, thus breaking all previous records for news-gathering enterprise.

Eleven years later the first cable established an instantaneous sign-language between Americans and Europeans; and in 1876 there came the perfect distance-talking of the telephone.
No invention has been more timely than the telephone.

It arrived at the exact period when it was needed for the organization of great cities and the unification of nations.

The new ideas and energies of science, commerce, and cooperation were beginning to win victories in all parts of the earth.

The first railroad had just arrived in China; the first parliament in Japan; the first constitution in Spain.