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Whitelaw Reid: New York will then become what London now is--the great central point of exchange, the heart of trade, the force of…

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New York will then become what London now is--the great central point of exchange, the heart of trade, the force of whose contraction and expansion will be felt throughout every artery of the commercial world; and San Francisco will then stand the second city of America....
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid envisions New York as a central hub of trade, with San Francisco as a major American city.

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