Editorial Notes.

Comments on developments regarding United States politics and government. Presidential candidate Hughes' speech on the issue of women suffrage; Blacklist of American firms with whom British citizens were forbidden to trade and the American reaction; Argument that the British blacklist will destroy a large amount of neutral trade and suppress only a small amount of German trade; Reaction of the government to the Eastland steamboat accident on July 24, 1915 where more than 800 persons were drowned.