New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Why should the strikers at Bayonne
 wish to burn the engine house of a
 fire company? That looks like sheer anarchy.-Buffalo Express.
 owners of the powder company
 stock now selling for s6eo a share
 plooauiy search the newspapers col
 uliiils lnx dread of finding signs of peace-Ruffalo Enquirer. | " ny are the foreign governments such spendthrifts They do not hesi- .aee .o pay out vast sums of money . ail iis spres to take pictures of our Iui ,ihcatlons. when it would be pos- t.,.. TOT " them to buy the same pie ~. es on souvenir post cards at a cent -Watertown Times
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 assuming that the board of inven- .ors Will fulfil the purpose of its pro- l lnoters. It is obvious that it will be- come come the custodian of secrets of vital ] iliportance to the nation Their suaTulanship should be entrusted to men loyal beyond the possibility of 1 suspicion; and their clerical assistants snould De men entitled to the same inn piicit conf1dence.-NewY York Sun. .,. 4N 5+tEs ? There has been much in the conduct oI our correspondence with Germany 70 provoke natural resentment, and it must be held to be a subject for sat- lsIaction that the president and the state department have allowed no slgn of irritation to escape them. At the same time it must be recognized that the only dignified course left our government is to close the discussion py/a display of unnnistakable, uncom- promising decision.--New York Jour- nal or Commerce.
 The suffrag gist women who invaded a publii boxing contest one night this week established no precedent so far as the attendance of women at such contests is concerned. But we do not remfInber that a political issue has ever been confused with boxing before. As a political expedient the women hit upon something new which may be- come popular, though we do not be- lieye it will ever tend to elevate the character of these exhibitions Of the manly art.--New York Times.
 If the southern states feel that they need to restrict their suffrage ma- terially they can easily accomplish that end without defying he fifteenth amendment. The Oklahoma literacy test would be vastly much more ef-S ficacious than it has been if no exemp- tions at all were permitted. For the good of the community illiterate aliens and illiterate native whites ought to be asked to make the same sacrifice that is demanded of the negro voters Then no complaint of inequality could arise and the sense of racial discriln- ination and injustice would be greatly essened.--New York Tribune.
 In all the excitement due to the war, to the booms in war munitions due to the billions of dollars foreign govern ments are spending here while their home manufacturers are unable to compete with ours as they would in peace times with the bars down to them owing to the democratic tariff, it is we'll to reflect upon the misery we should have been enduring in this country under democratic mismanage- ment had not the war in Europe -oc- cured. We should prepare to see that prosperity be insured to the fu- ture through the return of the repub- ilican party and it's doctrines to power at Washington.-Phil Star
 His countrymen differed much as to the moral integrity of James c. Blaine. The opposition that defeated him for the presidency was rooted in the dis trust of his motives. But of the in- sight of some of his opinions about proper national policy especially to- ward the republics of Central and South. America, men of the generation following his agree. He argued for a Pan-American rapprochement prior to MT. Roots advocacy of the same, and was the first secretary of state since the days of John Quincy Adams to face squaceiy the implications of the Monroe Doctrine and the contingencies that some time might compel the two Americas to know each other better and to act together oftener. The na- tion's love of justice should insist upon keeping MT. Blaine in memory as a ] statesman with an imagination, an as-, set that is worth more to makers and l conservers of states than sometimes is i d.-Christian Science Monitor. l Trying Pension Problem.