Putnam patriot., 1911-10-27
Editorial Scraps

The vote in California on the initia- tive, referendum and recall amend mehts to the constitution indicates A victory all along the line for radical ism. California is about to range it. self with Oregon as a community will ing to experiment with the new doc trines of direct government.
 The latest London papers bring vail about the increasing cost of house. keeping in that city. Milk has gone up cents a quart, and il was cents quart before this increase took place; and coal is 90 cents a ton higher than the top price of last winter.
 The Cantonese in Singapore now have hospital Of their own, and one of it's four physicians understands the medicine of the Foreign Devils.
 The latest dispatches from Peking indicate that the revolutionary move ment in China aims at the establish ment of republic. The movement is that of the young China party, and the leader is said to be Dr. Sun Yat Sen, whose imprisonment by the Chinese Legation in London sixteen years ago led to tremendous public outcry.
 Efforts to merge the Nj massachusetts, Institute of Technology with Harvard University having failed, the institute has done the next best thing and chos- on n eita nm tho Gopa hridoa hauk of the Charles River. The two institutions will probably become one at some time, for each can aid the other mate- rially if they work under common management.
 California had to draw the line somewhere, and did 1t at woman sui. frage.
 "The longer l have lived in this great industrial centre,P says Bishop Gore in his farewell letter to the clergy and laity of tBritish) Birmingham, "the more 1 have felt that as Chris. tians we are not justified tn tolerating the conditions of life and labor under
  living"
 "Since returning from abroad, o writes Milwaukee business man, "l have had occasion to read very care fully the reports of American consuls of the different cities of Europe which visited, and 1 am really amazed, in view of my previous ideas on the sub ject, to find how fully and accurately their statements check with my own observations of couUitions.p
 President Taft says, "A progressive Republican Is one wno recognizes eX- isting and concrete evils und is in fla Vor of practical and definite steps to eradicate them" This is the motto of the Lincoln Day Taft Progressive League of Oregon.
 Tin plate imports are making their lowest record in many years, accord. ing to statement just prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, Department Of Commerce and Labor, It shows that the total quantity of tin plate im- ported into the United States during the month of August was but 667 ,263 pounds, valued at S25, 5,ss9, against 9,l2a, ,622 pounds, valued at S274, ,652 in August of last year In July, 1911, the quantity imported was a27, TO pounds, valued at S2l ,9Sl, against 24, l70,637 pounds, valued at S1l5,5S5 in July, 1910. Thus the total quantity of the tin plates imported in the months of July and August, 1911, has been but l,l04,9 ,9S3 pounds, valued at Sl7 ,S60, against 38, 29l, ,25o pounds, valued at S990, 257 in the corresponding months of last year. Meantime the exports of domestic tin plates have advanced from about two million pounds in Ju- ly and August, 1910, to twenty-three millions in July and August, 1911.
 The revolt in China has one reassur- ing feature. IL is not directed against foreigners. lts leaders have not mere ly refrained from manitesting hostility 10 foreigners, but have also taken pains to give orders that, under heavy pen. alties, they are not to be molested.
 President Taft formally initiated the Panama Paciiic International Exposi- ton Saturday under conditions and amid surroundings so beautiful and dramatic as almost to defy description. As the President, with a silver spade, turned the first shovelful of earth in the presence of more than one hundred thousand spectators, hundreds of white doves were loosed behind the speakers stand, hot air balloons bearing legends were Iunleashed, daylight fireworks blazed forth in the cloudless sky, and the guns of battery of United States artillery boomed forth the presidential salute.
 An intelligent missionary in China accounts for the successful revolution going on In that country, that il wss started in opposition to the foreign railroad loan. The people refused to pay their taxes 10 the government, instead they paid them to revolu- tionary committee 10 build the rail- road and that started the revolt.