Putnam patriot., 1910-06-17
Editorial Scraps.


 The Hartford eoafant says that New Haven has an excellent water sppply. secured from privately owned sys- tesn, which k admirably managed and has put in an expensive iilief ted. and abundance and purity seem to be az. saFed IL has proved one of the most profitable operations that New Haven capital has gone into. Us stock ls worth from ztg to 2y0 and from time to time melon is5eat for tue benefit Of the owners Then fl contrasts this with Hartford. Except lacking lll- traitor system, t has just as good wa. Ter and nn abundance. the citY's taxes are lower than New Ha}eu's and the money goes into iile city treasury and not Into the pockets of lucky holders Of water stock. The Hartford wafer works could be soid fer from sg.ts0. .0ee to slG .s8 .8ei--waich would pay of the entire city dehi and leave surplus of from sz,000H1 to s6,W9 ,gu ia the treasury for public usea. Then itaddz= "Neite gai our goods and New Haven has sold hefs. That's where NC come in ahead.o
 Some remarkable movements afe eo Ing on Just now, nailon-w wlse, tD betit regulate ali public interests io secure faithful service, and develop nil its latent resources for the benefit of the tax.paying people. We might men ton half q dozen of these, but just now we desire to direct attention te q fatbef novel but fl most desirable one. namely. .Nationnl Anti-Gfnft Movement, headquarters to be at the National Gap. tai. The movement is tlie direct result of the anti.gfnft speech of ex.GoVernar kolk pf Missouri, last week. tonsids efable funds have already been pledged tlal basis il will also have the moral support of clefgymen of all dfaomina- lions. Among those who afe said te be Identified with tho movement arc Perry Belmont, Rudolph Spleckles- who brought She San Francisco gfaft. CTS to sgief-Angusta fho1as. Joseph N. Nilett, oi Aiabama, and N0aaan HapaeDd The date Tor holding the first convention Will shortly be an. noaneed. fhe American system ai government, beeaase of the guofm0aH gfatl frauds In mest of ouf lafae cities aad many If the state governments is seeming le be failure. and Xaeses tue people to le regarded abound ns de. stilnle of integrity and sifi9e, which ought to make oal people feel shame The evil, like many other evils, can b. overcome by concerted action. Now that the evil eau he eliminated, every good citizen ought to be willing to hts part in the work.
 The secretary of the New York isoose- welt reception committee estimates that bst@eeu ib,ne and 2O, ,poo persons, com. prising local and visiting organizations, will be in line along fifth avenue next Saturday afternoon, at the time of the parade in honor of Theodore iionse. velt's return. In addition there will be hundreds of thousands of on-lookers from every section of the country te welcome home the gieat American cit. izen. lf Colonel Roosevelt were not above the desire Of taking advantage of the sincere homage the nation will pay him on his return next Saturday, one might believe he could sway the destiny of the nation as he chose for years to come, It will be q memorable event in American history.
 That Canada will, in time, either be- come an independent Republic or he merged into the American Republic as a family of states, admits Of not a question. Seventy years ago there was little intercourse between the two countries, and no friendship. Neither sile understood of respected the other, Now, Canada k Amefieanized in it's government, in its business and social life. even to speech. \ hundred and filty thousand lusty Americans have been welcomed lheie as flo other class uf new eomers afe-nat only because they are the most intelligent and in every way like themselves, bat they brought with them some hfty million dollars. Goodwin smith, enc of the noblest of men, recently deeeased, and honored In this country as he was in his own country, in a letter recently published, said
 "As surely as ihe ultimate union of Scotland with England was dictated by nature, k the ultimate reunion of the English speaking race on this con. tinent. IL wiil become more pressing in case of formidable development on the side ot Japan and perhaps China. IL will hc greatly to the adv autage of my own country, which will thence forth have, on this continent, instead of precaIiaas outpost, natural aud powerful ally.
 Notwithstanding the late cold and wet weather The past three months The promise ot an unusually large crep of the products oi The country k an- noanced. The weather has been ia. yorahle for fruit of all kinds. il has appeared To many observing people that there had noI been such cold, back ward season in great many years, Bat when the records were searched il WAS found that only as far back AS thc year is0T, June WAS colder month than the present, and summer warmth did not begin 10 appear until the mid