Evening journal., 1920-10-27
NOT VERY coon RECORD.

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ISl phile and curious throwback from ~old Put" OF
Revolutionary fame. had handed to him recently when
500 residents OF Brooklyn. who had gone TO hear his
lecture on ~The Relations Between America and Eng
land" howled him of the platform because they were
angered at Tn at he had said in Canada the Amer-
revolution against England unjustned and that
George Washington wrong in fighting against the
Mother Country The report OF his Canadian lecture
reached The ears Of the Brookanders.
The verbatim report OF the Canadian address has not
been but the statements credited to Mr. Putnam
wholly in harmony with what he is reported OF have
said, president OF the American Free Trade League,
10 the Liverpool Reform Club July g. 1919. On that
occasion he Is quoted declaring that tho American
protective tariff was ~Prussianism"; and when rhe
League OF Nations covenant first made its appearance this
American Free Trade League promptly Identified Itself
staunch prepayment OF the league for the purpose
it announced OF giving "a squirt 10 the free trade move
ment by league OF nations and TO band together all
organizations individuals opposed 10 tariff barriers
and favoring free trade" This Free Trade League de-
clared That protection Is selnsh exclusive doctrine
and that free trade is herous policy II the league
lo naons) is to last It must always he trying to
move the OF war. chief among which hostile
iarirsr
Nevertheless when the Wilson Underwood free trade
tarn law under debate, Mr. Putnam srove to secure
the best possible treatment OF his industry He an
absentee book publisher. his business being conducted
In Now York. while he sOourns In England lie wrote TO
Mr. Underwood at The time. saying: 1T Is under
standing and contention that tariff based upon
sound justice and scientific methods will moi fail in re-
eyng finished article from duty TO relieve from duty
at the time the materials which utilized for the
production OF such article" He also the same com
muncatou advocated free trade in book bindings it
was undoubtedly hs intention 10 have his books shipped
free 10 his beloved Euaand bound there at the far
cheaper COST and returned TO tho United States thus
robbng the American bookbinders OF their employment
Mr.. Putnam is example OF what too much foreign
influence VIII accomplish in denatonalang and destroy
ing the patriotism OF who has descended greatly
descended from OF the bravest and ruggedest gen
erals OF the Revolutionary War Israel Putnam. This
descendant OF the American Cincinnatus born in
London in 1874 and educated at the University OF
Gottngen in Germany and the Sorbonno in France His
statements set him down English than American
and he has apparently fully eliminated the strain Of
patriotism which sursed through the veins Of his revered
ancestor. His structures against the American revou-
tonists match weE with those OF Mr. Baker our pacns
called the American soldiers at Valley Forge bandits
renegades and other choice epitheis Mr. Baker also
strong advocate OF the league OF nations and President
Wilson declared the league greater than the Cons
tuition which would be II the league were accepted
by us because It would subverl the Constitution.
! This Is the type OF Americans who are back OF the
crusade to put the league nations and subject
the United States TO super-govemment functoning al
Geneva VII ere, doubt they would like 70 foregahe
and chucke the in which they sewed up th
United States with the assistance OF Murphy Brennan
Nugent and Taggart