Putnam patriot., 1915-03-05
Boston Letter


 The good old Paritanical flavor Is stiIi in evidence in New England with Boston as the "besd centre" Like the altar Of roses il Is penetrating, per vasive and persistent. And yet so many Of our foreign cousins are mak- ing their homes in this Puritanical paradise we are becoming more "eos- mopolitsn," with some improvements and evidently some serious perils. But when we Pilgrims become ss scarce as that historic bird called the "dodo," God grant that the principles of right eousness in church and state may re- main to leayen the whole lump.
 When the Northmen over-ran and conquered Rome the Roman princi- ples of law and ethics remained 10 bless the new Alnsgsm and ithrough them the rest of mankind. True religion, and it's natural fruitagc Of good govern ment, is 10 be desired above the perpe- traitor of a name or particular race. So while three forths of the legal voters of the "Hub" are Catholics and foreign born. or children of fofeign-born par enls, we still have "goodly city, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth"
 My good wife and l spent fifteen months in Los Angeles, one of the most beautiful cities in the world with 300, ,000 inhabitants, with broad streets and a perfect system of tfolleys, it's iron tracks welded together as they have no frosts 10 disturb the ground. But with all it's advantages in climate, fruits, flowers, and so on, my wife was so homesick for Ne" England she said she would die if compelled to live in California.
 Our Mayor Curley, a democrat and Catholic, was chairman of a meeting in Fanuiel hall recently, to protest against the insane efforts Of our Presi- dent to force congress to purchase foreign ships which would probably plunge us into war with half dozen foreign gov ernments in few months. As New York state elected il fepubi- can as her governor, at the last election | by an overwhelming majority, that party may choose our next president, If 1t will, as no man has ever been | made president of these United States | the vote Of New York, the | Il Empire state.n We trust Taft and l Roosevelt will be wise enough not to | run as candidates for that office and so | defeat the republican party's success. Nearly all of the Bostonese deprecate | and denounce this European war. If ever war was planned and promoted | In perdition this was. Even the Bos | ton American and Munsey's Magazine | say 1t is probably fulfillment of that | prediction in the Book of Revelation | which reads, "I saw three unclean | spirits like frogs come out Of the mouth | of the dragon and out of the mouth of | the beast and out of the mouth of the | false prophet. For they are the spirits UT htNAiog Woih mug hitihtitof "hiNh EO l forth unto the kings of the earth and | of the whole world to gather them to 1 the battle of that great day of God All ,n-Rev. 16.
 But as the devil caused the erucifix. ion oi Christ while God over ruled 1t to the offer of salvation to the world, so, doubtless, this horrible war will be | over.ruled Of God for the abolition of | war and king craft and the incoming | of the "golden agen with it's prosperity | in all things for thousand years.
 If anyone imagines God has forgot ten this world they will have proof | enough in the days to come, beginning l now, to convince the most sceptical, if i he is lhonest, that Christ reigns on earth as well as in heaven. The devil | has ruled this world for nearly 6,IOO | years and now we shall see what Gods | good people can do in the right direc- ton.
 T. P. Briggs.
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