Nome industrial worker., 1908-02-21

D0 uIi61 IO your parents, 0u0CtIOu' ate to your brothers and sisters; as husbands and wives, be harmonious; as friends, be true. Bear yourselves in modesty and moderation; extend your beneyolence to all; pursue learn ing and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and per- feet moral powers. Furthermore, ad- vance public good and promote com mon interests. Always respect the constitution and preserve the laws. Should emergency arise, offer your selves courageously to the state; and thus guard and maintain the prosper ity of our imperial throne, coeval with heaven and earth. ''
 There is nothing here but the veri est commonplaces of capitalist moral ity. This accounts for the warm con- mendation it receives from capital ist school board president.
 The "best code of life'' is mean- ingless phrase when used in connec- tion with a code that ignores the basis of life. The basis of life is material. It has to do with the pro- duction and distribution of wealth. No code that fails to recognize the material basis of society is worth the paper it is written on as a guarantee for the security of society, and every code that excludes consideration of the fundamental fact that wealth should be enjoyed only by those who render to society some socially useful service, is unethical and immoral, whether it comes from Japan or Pal estine, whether conceived in an orien- tai mind or that of an American cap- italist.
 The ''best code of life' would pro- vide for the teaching of these prin- ciples: Every child born into the world shall be equally provided with the best education, the best of every thing for the development of all it's faculties, surrounded by the best en- vironment known to science for the formation of character, and guaran- teed the enjoyment of an equal share with every other child in the wealth of the society into which it is born.
 All the codes ever written have been the devices of the ruling or exploiting classes, and necessarily precluded any consideration of justice to the pro- ducing class for that reason they have all proved abortive and upon them as base no superstructure of order, wisdom and happiness could be, raised
 A rational and civilized society would find science of production, science of distribution, science of forming character (education), and science of administration in these de- partments of social activity. No such exalted view of society has been had by any statesmen in the history of America or of the Japanese dynasty.
 The people, and especially the work CTS, suffer because of the political, moral and religious approximations that, in chaotic confusion, are kept alive by political, moral and religious fakirs, in the interests of the lnjus- tice of private property in the indis- pensable means of life and progress and happiness.
 The countless evils endured by hum anity emanate from the codes political, moral and religious-all of them built on sand, because they ignore the true foundation of an en- frightened equality, which is that society now has the knowledge and the means of providing amply for ALL those physical comforts which only the few enjoy.
 The Japanese code, like all other emancipations of it's kind, is valueless because of what it excludes. Indus trial Union Bulletin, of Nov. 9.