Putnam patriot., 1910-07-22
Editorial Scraps.

and death dnfing the extremely warm weather through which the country has just passed. IL would make long list to name the murders. lynehings. suicides and sanstrokes. The heat is cause, no doubt, of exciting human being t9 act sbnermally.
 Mayor Charles F. Thayer, of Nor. wIeh. announces thal he proposes 10 be eandidege for JBlied -iales Senator a. the Democratic convention. His letter is hardly up toi that ot adigniiied salesman. and it Is doubtful If ne is really in earnest aboui himseIf being
 hac.daie, fut lis idter is made the occasion of q savage attack on senator
 Bulkeles. against whom he evidently has gfndge.
 eoientf fhe6slars Roosevelt alseiaims Icing committed fo either faction oi the cenIeadInf Republicans, nor does
 he intend 10 be committed 1le si=elf treats he insurgents A pelfeeEl4 iasal
 Republicans, tuG thai He iasefs taeif distinctive views k mon thaa doa1i- ful. ln iafge bodies political espeeiai- ly--there arc always individuals ot ad. sanced views. as there afe aise tadiyt. dsaIs of extremely censera alite ideas
 If is better to trent each Witb friendly toleTation than 10 deal harslHy wilh them. Success for auy party depends largely dn.foiFfation. Colonel Roosevelt is acting on that principle .Iihoat any doubt llut that wili Hol prevent hlm ffsm expressing his own personal con. victious when the proper time comes and that will he soen=- when both fac lions will listen b him as tbeif friend, and harmony will thus be restored.
 Andrew T. White. ex.Pfrsident Of Cornell and retired diplomat, thus expresses these strong eonsielionss-= "Mf, Roosevelt read the signs. and with his usual forcefulness look action. He caused the searehight Of publicity To be shed oil the corporations. lie open ed their stock books and revealed the means md methods of mismanage= ment. He gave the public to under stand that corporations no longer could continue to pursue their harmful course unchecked. He halted the advance Of those eager for constitutional amend ments which would have made possi- ble socialistic administration. This Is why 1 say Mr. Roosevelt saved this country from socialism
 Speaker Cannon will not take him- self out of the race for the Speakership. Ho is thoroughly honest, and stiil be. iieSes that his arbitrary rulings were for Inc best good of the country regard. less ef the fact that his methods we're contrary to the spirit Of republican in- titutions. He will fall to convince the House of Representatives that he ought to be Speaker as he has already con yinced the rank and fife of hts party.
 Mayor P.White. of Lawrence, Mass, was sentenced last week, with several other residents Of thai ely, to three years imprisonment for conspiracy. Although imprisoned, he insisted that he had the legal right to rule the city as it's chief executive. No law could bc found to displaee him, but the pris. on authorities compelled him 10 obey the prison rules, which shut oil his ex- efcisiDg his executive authority The State, as we'll as The residents Of Law renee, Is greatly disturbed by the poll. tical scandal.
 RearAdmiral Robley p. Evans, re- tired, like all naval and military off cers. regards the other great nations of the world as aetuated by spirit of pi. racy and robbery, ready to bounce up- on our nation and despoil il tnthlesslN unless We have a stronger navy than any one oi them. Ii k strange, there fore that the other nations havca sim- ilAf opinion ef eur government. aud ad. vance that opinion as an excuse for hailding more and larger hattleships-- each one costing more than the entire navy Of each iiliy seafs ago. The oth CTS profess the same desire fnr peace md disarmament that out nation does. If our government sunk every Wafship in the bottom of the ocean, na other power would dare--il they had such desiEe--molest us. II k not our war ships, bot the nations strength that makes us feared and respected hy the great powers af the world. Stili, our government goes on-~like the rest doubling its expenditure fes watships every ten yeats-ln order to keep Inc peaee as an excuse.
 Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, it's dtgnitafics as well laNmen, have heca holding 4 convention at Al. lany, \ l., whose object K te form Ian organic union of aIi the Christians of ali The world~~pfolestanl, Eastern Catholic. Roman Catholic, every body, everywhere. It's labars ended in the formation of "The Christian Unity Foundation" The Catholic Church refused to accept the oyeftue-ttsd doors ate wide open to freely take in all other seets and non-seets. That is what the Episcopal Convention means fer its special church. ss il gives permission to those Of all sects to enter it's doors without any theological restrictions. About all other sects insist upon re- strictions of belief in order 10 unite as x1rs rshinrsrrx-fheir cres.,is are ihs. ena-