Putnam patriot., 1910-11-25
Editorial Scraps.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is not suIkIng, nor Is be dismayed. He "hl be heard from shortly and from then on lie will have semthing to say about improved good government that *ifi interest. all thinking people and wit keep 1t up. and it will meet lte needs of the plain people, over the old sys- ten, that works harm to the mass ei the people, and against The injustice oi which they have long protested. lie isa born leader If the highest order, and his mission will Be aekBowiedgdIby the thinking people of the country as the one 10 place the nation under the direct control Of the people as 1t ~as originally designed, md will gise him more fame than being President.
 4 Home Rule for freiand is practically certain If the Liberals are returned to power al the forthcoming general elee- ton with d working majority The House Of Lords at present blocks the way 10 the passage of n Home Rule bill. but if Mf Asquith comes back successfully from the polls, the veto bill reducing the upper he use to the po- sition .of eonsuItise and advisory chamber will become flaw, as the peers would rather accept Il than see n wholesale addition of Liberals 10 the Peerage.
 Three cornmon-i looking young men in New York city, organized mining and oil stock company, hy means of which They swindled the public out ot Sso, ,o0o ,o0o. People will trust parties offering large profits only to lose their money. No amount Of warning does them any good until once bitten.
 The statistics Of football casualties Inc past season are encouraging 10 those ,w who favor the "ne~ football. There were only II deaths as compared with 23 In the season preceding whiie of serious injuries to players there were but 40 as compared with ei the year before. stlil, by comparison of mum. bers, football Is more deadly In It's ei- fleets than the automobile.
 Premier Bfiand, the brilliant French statesman, was struck in the face by a young roy alist, ,as his testimony against the man who has made the French Republic honoted at home and abroad. Titled gentry receive no honor in that brilliant nation.
 The Democratic representation in the next Honse of Congress will be 224 a' against laa Republicans and one So ciniist. Their political opponents eN. pect 10 see them use their iegislntiN, power So as to disgust the country and forfeit future political success
 The issae in the impending British election is Home Rule for Ireland and the resolutions featfirmed, which the government insists must be adopted if at all--without any change what ever. The result of their adoption vii l.ad to further reduction of the powel ot the IoftiS.
 BnslnesS aS well as scientific eduea ton Ter the farmer Mas advocated eA slste Master oi fentss siHania, ehaif man Of the eonsuutiite on Agriculture in his annual gepait lp the Convention ef the National Grange now m ses sion at Atlantic City He says tha thfce.lourths of the farmers wefc Il debt because oi lack ol business tfaia ine.
 The Indiana Forestry Association ii giving serious attention io the qnesliet of fefofesting the State, matter II which other important bodies, inelnd ing tue Federation of temmereia Cuts, are deeply interested.
 Mexico. formerly troubled with con tinnous revolutions and in>arfeetions under President niax has been ffes from such troubles for quarter of ! century. In the meantime the county has greatly prospered and the peopi, hase become educated and enhghien ed beyond any other of the Sonthefr Spanish Republics. Sull il has large population ignorant and dehased. Re cently this class haye been worked up on to oppose Dlsx, by leaders who has' wanted the offices so long held by ths present administration. The excite lnent of the lynching of Mexican h Texas, was used to inflame the pas sions of the ignorant multitude, by showing that he vas very friendly with the Americans. From mobhias American residents, they were led ts attack the government. Gaining some small advantages. the leaders organi' ssd revolution, and number of com bats and s few handsed persons have besn killed. The government hss now taken energetic measures 10 meet the assault and will soon crush the foes.
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