Putnam patriot., 1912-07-19
Editorial Scraps


 Within less than A fortnight Colonel Roosevelt probably will begin the campaign trips which are 10 carry him into almost every stale before the No vember election. Although he has not reached a final decision, he expects to leave Oyster Bay for the Middle West the early part of the week after next. Kansas, Iowa, and Michigan are tentatively onsthe program for the tour Colonel Roosevelt may alsoat- tend the Chicago convention of the new progressive party before he re- turns home.
 A sensational second chapter in the expose by Sir Roger Easement, the British Consul General at Rio Janelfo, who was sent by the British Govern ment to the Amazon to investigate stories of outrages on natives in the rubber district, has come out in the shape of supplementary report to the Foreign Office, which shows lhat there has been practically total failure on the part Of the Peruvian Government 10 respond to the demand for reform of the rubber atrocities in the Putu- mayo district. The returns show that the l2,000 tons of rubber collected in twelve years produced from 5000, ,O00 to S7, 900 ,oOOO and entailed the death Of 30. .O0O Indians, whose bones are scat tered through the forest and have made certain places resemble battle fields.
 The National Prohibition Conven- lion ended it's labors with the nomina- ton of ,the party standard bearers of four years ago-Eugene W. Ch"lin, of Arizona, for President, and Aaron ;. Watkins, of Ohio, for Vice-President, In each case the nomination was made by exclamation after a single ballot had indicated the preference of the del egates.
 By vote just short of to the Sen ate Saturday ansealed William Lon' mer, junior Senator from Illinois. Finding that corrupt practices and methods were employed in his elee' tion, the Senate declared his title to his seat invalid.
 The first of the three fundamental questions concerning synthetic rhobel must now be regarded as convinelqff , answered in the affirmative. .pgly enlifieally possible to maket is sci- this we have Ihe sery ques it, For fegsk9aised and .tssurance of Professor ts.--.N son of the inventor of anlline dyes, given in recent address oeioie the Society of Chemical Industry Ill London; of Professor Fernqach, oi the Pasteur Institute, in a personal state ment by him in the Morning Post oi London.
 Fourth of July fatalities were reduc- ed this year to IT. Last year through out the country 57 persons were killed by the explosion of gunpowder, either directly or indirectly through the run ming away of horses scared by the noise. That was "A less than the num- Der of killed in 1910. This year the number is 40 less than last years rec ord. We may reasonably hope, now, ,bat we may have bloodless Fourth | ia 1913.
 IL is reported in certain London | financial centres that the UnitedStates | Is considering a plan for placing the | finances of the Republic of Colombia | upon sound footing. The salient iea- ture of the arrangement is said to be loan of S70 OOo 900, to be made by the United states to Colombia. or this sum S25 GOO, it is proposed, be set aside for the purpose of retiring lthe present floating debt of Colombia, external and internal, the remaining s45,o00,0o0 to be used for the improvement ot the present railroads, the building of new roads and the deepening and imprev- ing of the channel of the Magdalena River.
 Fifty or sixty years ago one event oi last week would have made great  stir. The unanimous vote of several thousand delegates, in session al Washington, D. C., as the lnterna- uonal Bible Students Association that they would no longer accept the doc Urine of hell fire, has made no stir, and scarcely received due attention.
 New London will in the not distant future be in a position to dock ocean liners, the State Rivers, Haroors and Bridges Commission having favorably passed on the act of the last Genera Assembly which appropriated on' million dollars for harbor improve ment and the building of docks. Th' matter was left in the hands of th' commission, the plans for the work | be passed upon by the commission Several large lines il is understoo' have expressed desire to land thei boats there. Work will be started 8 soon as possible.