The Washington herald., 1918-09-19

Bridgeport and associated herself
with the militants Of the suffrage
cause. appears to have lost little
prestige because of it-not. at least
with the business office of the War
Labor Board with which she is iden-
titled.
For Miss Hunkin has had a raise in
pay since she became militant, and 1t
was said at the Capitol that the
raise had been dictated by Frank =.
Walsh himself Moreover. so 1t is
claimed. some subordinate officer of
the board was roundly scored for in
timating to Miss Hunkin that she
should not have been caught with the
militant suffragists. goods on her.
II Mr.. Walsh took this eNtraOrdi-
nary interest in Miss Hunkin it Is
apparent that he must mildly ap-
prove the manner in which she con-
Quoted herself II this is the case,
it might be that Mr.. Walsh might be
interested in explaining why he
favors the militant as against the
sane branch of the woman's party
and why he so readily takes the side
OF a woman who found herself in the
tolls because of her disgusting dis
play Of militanCy.
1t makes precious little difference
who Miss Hunkin is or what her an
teCedents are-but there is the big
question behind It of Mr. Walsh ap
proving what Miss Hunkin has been
doing, and those who have acted
up with her.
1t might be interesting to see what
happens from 1t alive would like to
hear from Mr.. Walsh on the subject.
We wonder why Secretary McAdoo
is SO ferociously assailed in maga-
zine which Louis F. Post is so close
ly identified with, and policies OF
which the Assistant Secretary of
Labor IS said to dictate. It may be
that it Is perfectly proper for Mr..
Post TO write things Of this nature
against the Secretary. but we do not
think so.
or course. it may be that the Sec
retary of the Treasury has not seen
the articles in question. But if he
has not it is because some Of his
'newspapermen secretaries have mot
been on their jobs, and we hardly
think they would he guilty of such an
unforCivable crime as not knowing
what the press Of the land is saving
about their chief.
At any rate one Of these days,
when the Secretary gets few of the
greater problems off his mind-if that
happy day ever comes between now
and the termination Of the war-we
imagine he may drop in on Mr.. Post
to demand an explanation Of him.
And it would be interesting. when
that time came. II we all could go
with the Secretary of the Treasury
and see what Mr.. Post has to say.
Two Of our allies, Italy and
Franco. have asked the Congress Of
the United States to extend to them.
until May /. the right to operate un-
der the wine importation privileges
of the agricultural bill. Two
others. Spain and Portugal have
asked the same thing
The plea is made on behalf Of all
four countries that unless they can
send wine into this county until
May I. 1919, the wine merchants Of
the United States will have n mo-
nopoly Of the business and that rs a
further matter of fact the wine
growers Of these countries will be
hard hit financially because Of the
U. s. embargo.
Consideration will he given to the
plea. of course. The desire Of the
nation is not to make serious in
roads upon the already disorCanized
and weakened financial resources OF
any OF our cobeIIiGerents. There
are some of the extremists who do
not want to listen to the plea but
the lawmakers of soundest judg-
ment desire to do so.
Mr.. Brisbane. so we hear, is MAX
ing the welkin ring with noise
over the statement made by A..
Mitchell Palmer. He is said to have
gone to the White House and to
! have indicated to some of the folks
there that he would like very much
to get the "anGora" Of the Pcnnsyl-
vania property custodian.
1t must be. in view of this, that
Mr.. Brisbane has a personal inter-
est in what Mr.. Palmer said about
a Washington paper. This is inter-
esting news, quite naturally. But
we think there will be no interfer-
ence from the White House with
this matter. This is something.
without doubt, in which the alien
property custodian can take care Of
himself. Watch for the shift of
scenery.
Mr.. Kent of the Tariff Commission,
a Progressive who has not forgotten
what made the trouble in the Re-
publican party in 1912, takes sides
with the Non-Partisan League and
like Mr.. Creel is of the opinion that
there is nothing very bad in the or
ganization.
We are inclined to agree that many
members of the league are just as
patriotic as any other of the hundred
million patriots we have in this coun-
try at the present time. But we
would feel better If Mr.. Kent and
those who agree with him, and IL
a hundred thousand members of the
league would tell us what they think
of the Townleyism which has crept
into the league and made it the OBJ
ject of suspicion among men who
love Justice and square dealing.
The big thing wrong with the
league is Townleyism. Why cannot
some headway be made by the league
members themselves to stamp this
lout and to thus remove from the