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

! party is preparing to carry out are
, part of the law of the land, he will
authorize the removal of his indus
| trial plants to Canada where they
will be able to operate protected
| by the flag that braved a thousand
years the battle and the breeze" to-
wit: the Union Jack. Canada
looks better to Foss than the state
to free which the fathers of the re-
volution fought and bled and died.
The capitalist himself knows that all
this bunk concerning patriotism
| which he has peddled really
amounts to nothing when profits are
concerned, and it is merely excel
lent stuff to work the workers.
Canada is the place where they
think that the profit making will not
be subjected to restrictions, and
therefore it is a. case of ''let's go to
is he alone. Not by long shot. Some
short time ago that glorious pearl
of the Pacific about which orators
have themselves so much Grated
under the inspiration of the sugar
planters whoare opposed to the
tariff on sugar being removed de-
clared that they would prefer to be
| unannexed from the United States
in the event of free sugar becoming
an accomplished fact in this coun-
try. Yet the politicians of Hawaii,
the docile servants of the sugar peo-
pie, have been second to none in
their eloquent apostrophes to the
elory of the nation to which they an
nexed themselves but a sort time
back.
Thus it is that events endorse
that politics purely and simply is a
! matter of business, first, last, and
all the time determined by the
economic status of the politician and
whom the politician serves. There
is none of the poetry that stands
out so delightfully."- in the sentimental
outbursts of the candidates in it at
all. 1t is a cold-blooded monifesta-
ton of the real government that sits
in the offices of the financial and in
dustrial magnates and which con-
Germs itself with the accumulation
of profits. Governor Foss to use
the now famous and very popular
Rooseveltian aphorism is practical
man. There is neither ethics nor
patriotism nor sentiment about his
political status. This is a business
proposition as such regarded first
last and all the time. If the demo-
Gratis would serve his end, we'll and
good, he is a devoted and a loyal
/ democrat, but when he thinks that
the republicans will do better by him
and his business, why, by the Rood,
he is republican.
The material position of a man
in the economic world is the deter
mining factor of his beliefs. The
conduct of such a one as Foss shows
this conclusively, and while others
less compelled by the candor of cir
cumstances than is the Governor,
might blather out some balderdash
about ideals and principles and other
| folderols, the fact is there that it
is the economic status that is the
determining factor just the same
There is no getting around it; and
when the workers get to such state
by organization that they can become
control of industry, why they
will themselves assume con-
troll of the affairs of the country
which will be equivalent to the
manifestation of the capitalist con-
troll is today called politics. And
that is all there is to it, but it is
worth thinking over and getting it
clear what politics, with it's brass
bands, and it's eloquence, and its
flag waving, and its patriotism,
amounts to any way. Foss has done
some good in demonstrating what it
actually is, and the workers ought
to that extent to be grateful to FOss,
or if not Foss to the combination
of circumstances that made Foss an
truth.
The president of the Master
Butchers Association does not like
to observe the fact that the con-
sumption of meat has fallen of for
the past few years.
There is some mistake somewhere.