Putnam patriot., 1909-10-29
Daiiies, within three months, WeakIies. within One Year.
Editorial Scraps.

in public office which has been going on for years in Birmingham, Mass. The facts afe, for years the town trea- sufef had been making and selling spurious notes aRainst the town to the amount Of s5e0, 000 or more. Tie mYs- tefy is, what became of the money. Eight years ago there were facts came to light that showed there was some thing wrong going on, but when the treasurer was asked to explain certain matters, he as much as told them 10 mind their own business He was an influence and leading men were his friends. IL should he made impossible that such thing could go on for even year.
 The new poll tax law is more drastic than the old law, under which there was no risk in violating It's provisions. Now, under the new law, each and ev. cry male resident between the ages of 2l and BO years Is liable to efinnai prose cution for tax lodging, unless legally exempt. Further than that the law provides that the delinquent shall work put the amount in Jail at the rate Of q A day. and pay s2.5o per week for his board.
 Chester De Witt Pugsoy, of Pough. keepsie, N. Y., offers prize ot sioo Tor the best essay on international peace by an undergraduate of any American college or university. Essays must not exceed ,00o words, 5000 preferred No name on the essay, but by private letter mnst give name, class, college and home address, directed to II. C. Phillips, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., not la- ter than March 10, 1910. Last year \ numbcr,of essays from colleges conten ded for similar prize.
 A commission of six gentlemen com- mercial experts has been sent to this country by the Australian government Co study the American manufacturing methods. A request by the, British Embassy thai the visiting, experts ee permitted to visit the Hartford facto. rtes was granted. After they visil the factories of that city they will find almost everything that they can learn by going to every other manufacturing city in this country. The United States is regarded by the rest of thu world as the pioneer In inventions ant manufacturing.
 r.. fl fafp,al m NpW N nrk to take the control of the city's afiair from Tammany, has been gaining ia ,or among all classes except the lowes elements and araflefs. Only one pa per ol influence is supporting the Tam snany ticket-the Times and other De mocfatic papers favor, the fustion tick ei. The iatter's success looks nor hopeful as the campaign proceeds. Tammany Is defeated al the polls nex week, there will likely be flight [ Europe as there was when Bill Twec' and his gang met their downfall.
 President Taft left St. Louis on Mon day for his river trip of i,stU miles accon panied by ten river packets cal r,ing two Cabinet officers, thirty Go. cfnors. representatives of eight Sout and Central American governments \ Washington, twenty |. S. Senators nearly au0 members of Congress, an officials of every State on both sides ( the river. besides hundred, of delegate from commercial bodies, bound for tn Convention of the Lakes-to-the G u Waterways Association al New ol leans. The Presidents trip has bee triumphal educational message peace and inspiration te all peoples and the nation has been elevated an iraaauiiixed as never before.
 Waterways improvement as pal cf s national policy of conservation ( the strcams, the lands adjoining them and the forests at their sources, was tii theme, last Saturday, of two notsbl gatherings al St. Louis and East S' Louis, III. President Taft,took part fsvoring the daring scheme, with ma ny Governors, and eminent official and representative business men.
 A great gathering of Irish-Ameriean met in Fremont Temple, Boston, o' Monday night 10 welcome T. r o'Can nor, leading memher of the Irish Na tional party in the British House Commons, and cheered the presence a Captain Edward o'Neager Conden aaather of those eminent Irish patriot who, by their persistent inssetaiigsbl iabogs and sacrifices, are making Ger lain the restoration of the soil of Ire land to.iis right owners and the acqui silon of local sclf-gavefnment- In evening wound up by raising neaFa. Sio,D9 for the cause of Home Rule II Irelaad.
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