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SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. “* While there ts Life there's Hope"* VOL..70 No, 1821 Published by LIFE 1 J. A. Mitenete, Pres't 17 West Thirty-fi English Offices, Rolls House, IGA fallen to the Germans, and the goods have been found on Sweden; Dudley Field Malone has resigned as Collector of the Port of New government has been York, and the going through the strong boxes of the I. W. W.; a new set of rumors of peace proposals from Germany are abroad, and every day’s headlines tell of mi- grations of newly-drafted men to our training camps. As for Riga, the war sharps matter! It was a ripe fruit tha Germans could have picked months ago, if it had seemed worth while. In a military sense it is not immediat important. We believe that, because when you discover Riga on the map, it is evident that you get nowhere through that port except to Russia and when armies go to Russia their chief concern heretofore has always been to make sure that they had re- turn tickets. Moreover, up there the cold already in September begins to give warning of winter, and it is bad form, since more than a century, to invade Russia in winter. The Kaiser the fall of Riga brings peace nearer, and maybe it docs, for as an occasion for new peace proposals it may be quite a good accelerator of But it does not bring the Ger- mans any nearer to victory, Neither does the publication by our State Department of sent in ipher by Count Luxburg, the German says peace, notes BLISHING COMPANY AL Minter 1» New York Sec'y and Treas. at Buenos Ayres, to his gov- ernment, forwarded through the Swed- ish Legation by way of Stockholm to Berlin. It is no help to Germany to have her representative in Argentina caught recommending that Argentine ships should be spurlos versenkt, and no very deep gratification to Sweden, a professional neutral, to have her dip- lomatic service caught cheating neu- trality and abusing honor in behalf of the Germans. In Sweden, they tell us, it is another case of a people pro-Ally and a government pro-German, and ¢s- pecially, as it was in Greece, a case of a pro-German queen, That is one grave ailment our untrammelled country has escaped, It has La Follette and Stone and Hardwick and Gronna and Gore and many others, but it has not had a pro-German queen. Sweden will have a bad time now She will have to send out multigraphed apologies, and she may not have enough to eat this winter. So the Germans have captured Riga, and the Allies, Stockholm, and the Allies are ahead be- cause Stockholm is a road to Germany. R. DUDLEY FIELD MALONE resigned the collectorship in a long and not particularly artful letter, because, he said, he had committed the administration on the stump in the last campaign to put through woman suf- frage, and it hadn't done it. Mr. Ma- lone disapproved of the disconraging treatment provided for the militant, banner-bearing suffragists who have bothered Washington for the last six months, and of the President because he had not insisted that should pass the suffrage amendment, It is not recalled that Mr. Wilson, since he became President, has been bullied into doing anything he did not want to do until he got ready, and Mr. Malone might have known that the more the militants tried to bully him into bullying Congress, the more he wouldn't do it. Besides that, Mr. Wil- favors leaving suffrage to. the states, and there are excellent reasons for following that method. We believe that Mr. Malone has been a good Collector, and he may make a successful lawyer, and a con- venient suffrage Boanerges, but it is a pity he let a Jot of urgent females pull his leg, and it is doubtful if states- manship will lose much if he sticks to the practice of law. Congress son 5 for the I. W. W.'s and their strong boxes, they are a mean job; too foolish to assault with complete satis- faction, and too mischievous to let alone. For all the government's mis- takes in dealing with them, it should be excused in advance; for all advan- tage that results to the peace and pro- tection of the country, we should be thankful. One would like to let them talk, and print, and foam at the mouth, and put out their tongues, and publish lying pictures, and speak naughty words. to their hearts’ content and never hinder, but when it comes to stirriny up strikes everywhere possible hindering the output of copper, and distributing phosphorus in wheat and cornfields, and providing mutinies on ships, such doings in time of war are convenient, and proceedings against the authors of them as public enemies are timely and proper. The I. W. W's are doing everything and not comicboo! Son .