Putnam patriot., 1910-02-04
Editorial Scraps.

The cutlery agalnst TIE neS ianfi ~
vstleut IN b5lh parties wien lie . .
was passed-ope extreme doeiaftss
thst the lowering 4 duties would se-
nef1t The former aud inIafe the Amen.
can producer. the other extreme that
the pss tanf favored the trusts an
manufacturing interests 81 tbs EfsshHs
o.,heeeonsanef. Notwithstanding that
more than hall Of the mefchandise
imported Under the rev tafiH, seeof9.
ing 10 government Statistics comes Ia
free Of duty, the nes tsfiii : proving
10 Es ssthe bezt tam tie country hs7
ever tad, n President Taft tod Tie
;ss=sfsz during his tour through tie
Vest Iast year And still bettert
permanent tafifi commission ~as APP
pointed. when The tsflti sas passed
whose duty 1t Is to " ateh trade CON
dstlons al home and abroad, and # any
pasG Of the iarif AS injurious - Ame-
flcan tfade and manufactures, II can
be Immediately Femsdled without tie
necessity Of making uss tatIi
Edison. the mechanical Magician,
aims 10 H. prophet. aud Ia the Neat
York independent give n forecast Of
hos human beiagz viii be living I'D
years hence. isadiam viii Re power
by which clock. vii 20 several hun
dssd years without winding ws shall
then get all The power out Of eur fuel
We get but II OF ~ Per cent nov the
storage batteries will lay up The enef.
~ q TIE wind In electric form. sun en-
ginrs will te used % produces poeet IN
volcanoes the power that nov destroys
will he ifansmuted into electricity As
h done with Niagara Falls friction
will be eliminated, and, like our world.
will move In frsistiess ether; travel
will be In machines that can Vanish
The hostility OF Winds. Chemical food
will be abundant, but prepared from
coil products, 10 please all tastes and
give perfect health. and the working.
man will te living A. we'll Is The man
with q t2a,UD income. The clothes
Of the future will 10 cheap that every
young woman ~ili be able 10 follow
the fashions la dresses finer and more
beautiful than SILKS and satiBs, ~ the
latter are now 10 calico and home.pun.
There will be no manual work IN fse-
tories, mere sutsrtntenteuds To look
after The machinery. Not individual.
Ism, but social labor will dominate The
future. Ii he could Danish sickness
and death, then man could aspire for
nothing more.
John NJ. finney. Secretary OF the
Appalachian National Association, un.
dertakes 10 adieule the statement Of
Professor Moore, Chief Of the Weather
Bureau, that the depletion Of forests
DOES not affect the amount Of rainfall.
lie inagines that Professor Moore BY
that statement does not favor the pre-
seryalion Of forests, and therefore that
he dass~ not favor the btu tefore Ton
vrezs for the creation Of the southern
and " hite Mountain fo-
rest Reservation. Professor Moore cxs
pressly declared that there are vital
reasons for protecting our forests, that
al Is doing an injury To good
c ,use 10 bring TO a. support the false
aud mistaken conclusions Of
no matter how well mean
Ing they may he u how devoted TO
high and lofty purposes, which takes
ia all such persons ss John II tinney,
v no undertakes Il fefate RTof Moote's
views by ridicule and defamation.
The interest aud novelty OF the pro-
posed National TX position, in 1915, in
al the tiiilesh, ami
xersaty 81 the Emancipation PFcela-
nation. il obvious. II would ee the
first undertaking 81 the Kind inhlstory
IL will prove most successful lair. II
the eolorcd people get aroused. and Will
prove OF great benefit 10 The race,