The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-15

with vice and crime and all things
evil. The little charities of Tam
many will be forgotten. The refuge
which Tammany has been to the So
cial Ishmaelites will count for
nought, and the time is coming no
doubt when the very men who found
safety and rest in the bosom of
Tammany when all the rest of So
ciety was against them will rise and
bear witness to the foulness of their
protector. There is no gratitude in
politics. Cold blooded and evil, it
is game that is played with loaded
dice by Big Business. The lead may
be imbedded in the dice by means of
religion, by up-lift theories, by NOR
ality or by plain corruption but the
dice are and always will be loaded
for Big Business.
Had Tammany wisdom it is doubt
full even if it can last. But it has
neither principle nor wisdom. 1t
stands for nothing but sheer corrup-
ton. 1t is betrayer of what CAPT.
talism actually is, and capitalism
fears that the public will recoil at
the reflection so hideous Of capital
ism as is seen in Tammany. That
is the danger and it was the danger
that menaced capitalism in many
others besides Tammany. 1t was the
cause of the downfall of Taft. Taft
was candor itself-a short-sighted
un-wise man who played like a child
the game of wise old men. Big Bust
ness saw that he gave it away. 1t
feared Taft not for his strength of
character or for his powerful will
or for his purposeful acts, but be-
cause he exposed the hand which big
business would have him play in
secrecy and by stealth. Not all the
great industrial chiefs saw this, but
the greatest did. Morgan saw it;
Perkins saw it and greater than
enther of these, Rogers, saw it long
ago. Roosevelt was their man, the
uplifting colonel who would build
protecting wall of governmental
awe around monopoly and regulate
Big Business so that it would be safe
from attack. The regulation that
Big Business sought is the regula-
ton which prevents molestation and
which would give monopoly every
appearance of being a quasi-govern-
mental institution. The Independents
who are being crushed by monopoly
called Roosevelt's schemes socialis-
tic, but they were state capitalistic
and nothing else. Roosevelt would
have armor plated capitalism so that
it could defy attack, and last out
the ravages of social storms.
The boss and the machine in poll
tics have got to go expect where the
boss and the machine are SYNONYM
Gus with Big Business. Tammany is
powerful like all carefully built up
organizations that have become in
situations. But Tammany is identi-
fed with Big Business in no way
whatever, and only Indirectly with
the larger interests that are the real
power behind the throne. It will
take some time, much money, and
no end of labor to down Tammany,
but it will be downed and when the
smoke of battle rolls way there will
stand supreme apparently men of
lofty aims, of noble minds, and high
and purposeful endeavor who will
most effectively mask the steel and
blood and filth of Big Business. 1t
has got to come to that. There can
not be two Beast marks. There may
be but one, and the mark of Tam
many will not be the one which will
survive
Between Big Business and Labor
is the real issue. All the other
folderols whether identified with
Suffers or with men like him will
be eliminated in the friction of the
events of time, and there will re-
main nothing but the antagonism.
direct, open, and final, of organized
exploiters and the organized ex-
plotted.