Putnam patriot., 1909-01-01
Editorial Scraps.

td4ni<fs sHEf 1Esz43 Es ~ ss sg 4%Ntsff1 8f the Elecsors. Wei. they ~iIi meet on the second Monday of Jannary in or- der ia formally declare hlm President elect. On the second Wednesday in February the Gonstltution requires the Congress 10 be ln session. when the yic President, in tbe presence of toth Houses, opens the letter received from the Presidential Flects fs, and annonn- ee~ the vote fof President and Vice President: then the declaration Is fin. lsbed. Bat the people knos Il b ne so without the formal declaration.
 One of the great moral resisnls of tbe age ls the temperanes movement which began al The south ~llen tue Dispsnsa. " systsln was adopted in the two ss- roilnaz and other ssiales. iI demon. stfaled thai sae ssl!efs aad maaasae- tufefs hIndefed fbe adoption q pfahi. hiftsu. The former efass being eAisni. nated where the fasreusasx system had iasn adopted prohibition was sslea adopted. and aajoining states seeing the peaeils from Inc restriction ai the esls of liquor have also iaeoted rfosu- bikson. Now al lhe opening ol she Ne~ Year sees more than half the South under prohibition sustained hy Inc States, supreme eoafisa aud Us resi- Of Inc roulh making prohibition the leading lssue, Fofty yeafs ago tne North regarded the South A hopeless ly given osef to the drink habit
 President Roosevelt acting OH his view that ali concerned in the saccess Of good work should be united h car. rying t out, has Invited Canada and Mexico in unite an a plan io eon@erse The natural resource ni entire North America. Lake ali similar proposed plans of the President, they are so Just and desirable that they appeal to the reason and common sense oi Those invited We may therefore expect to see North American Conference shortly ealied lo eonsidcf lhe question Indicated.
 The House committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce have geHe te tbe islhmas ta make ihenselseS aeguainl- cd with the conditions oi The present form ef government of the fausIaa canal gone, with the view ot making any changes desirable.
 Approximately three million Red crcos Christmas stamps, the pfoeoeds af V hleh are lo tx used to relieve and prevent the spread of tuberculosis, we're sald throughout the New England States during the Christmas holiday season. Iy this novel plan ai.,su ~ ss taken up for mos. phiIanihropic pof- pose.
 0ne city after another has shown its corrupt body of fnler~. New York. Philadelphia, Chicago and san Fran. cisco, although publicly exposed, keep on in their courses of iniauits, fearless because of the powerful organizations that sustain them because they have participated in The fruits of lheir ini. l qulty. What k notable In these munis | eapal exposures k the enure body of officials are one in snis work of corrupt | practices ss well as outside parties of good standing iu lhe community. In Filt~eufe, The la1s city to he exposed, is filtsburg, whose history is like the other cities, some nifty or more have been indicted, among them two bank i offic~fs for hrihing the city council. II shows the nced of some change in The form of municipal government, such xs the Gsiyesioa plan, to pryent such scandals under the present system, which afe so hard la eradicate after they are discovered. Carnegie furnish ed the money b bring the rfsssbarg nxaes To the bar, and ~preckles did the same for San fransciseo.
 .Earthquake> in divers places. En- rcfs. Asia and south America can Icz- tify to the correctness of Holy Writ in that respect, in seoeni years. ou Mon. day an earthquake and tidal wave did fearful devastation n shF-~ provinces of Italy. destroying thousands of hxe~. Many vessels were destroyed hs the I tidal ~asee. Two thintS of The elty of l McsSlna wss destroyed nsetlnise news camel be known ioF several days as al seieg faph wires are down and rail. 1 roads su1strucied in the afflicted tsts. tficl ef hundreds of saaare miles.
 Rsvwnse hs eornh throwing l. ges. ling NeFs cammoa. Ntthin eae Mvsk crowded tenement was wrecked in New York. amt i~n haildings In t.h4. caso. hs bombs, killing nninher ol pe pie.
 Castro. In hts safe naFeat ia tssrma. ny. iu reply to ahe question whether he knew what wss goans to happen, masie gise following scids:
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