The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-15

which would not fight another, pro yided the gains were commensurate with the struggle, and the pow embarking on war would enjoy l greater profits as a result of war, than from condition wherein peace prevailed.
 And the psychology of national preparedness, now an accepted fea- ture of the national administration, involves the development of inter. national Fear, a certain source of war.
 The man who places his confid- ence in arms develops within him. sef a natural emotion that he may i be eXcelled by the other fellow iri the precision, scientific advantage, and efficiency of his arms. The na- tion exhibits this emotion in an in- tensifed and extended form. ia Europe beyond any manner of doubt Fear developed among the nations over this preparedness that it be. came a bogie. Like the old Mar from the Sea it clutched the national shoulders and burdened the body polite with it's dreadful incubus 1 lnternatioan l rivalry in armament was merely the manifestation of the existence of this fear. It grew and grew until the nervous condition of 1 Europe became such a tremulous affair, that only war could be ex- pected to dissipate the impossible condition.
 l When capitalism to protect it's | hoard or its aggressive domination of world markets, sets out to arm itself, that setting out marks the existence of national fear. It in wolves national dread of the rival commercial nations. It judges by it's own rapacity. Nations are like men in that respect. We judge 1 others from our own feelings and credit others with vices that exis: within ourselves. It is true that as live we judge our neighbor. It is true nationally, it is true individ- ually.
 And once we harbor this dread of rivals aggressiveness, we never let go. It increases day by day and year by year. It is a real obscssion.
 But it has to be admitted that it is not an idle obsession but one founded upon fact.
 Capitalism is the same disor,lered condition throughout the woc'd. 't is the real anarchy. It is tho torch bearer of destruction. It is the in- cendiary. It is the homicide. It is the suicide It's progress is red in peace and in war, for it is botjl war. Mammon and Mars are strictly Allies. They are the dual detias of capitalist existence.
 Concretely society today is built up of two classes everywhere. Those who own and control and those who do net own and are subject. This l kind. It is universal that some will profit from the toll of others and that those who have not any means must toll for those others. Within such condition there ic an antagon- ism that cannot be concealed from any one Investigating it. Some oI those who control others will deny that they do so and many who are controlled will deny that they are. Because of the latent opposition to control in every per sons nature, to prolong that control an educational perversion is esta5- lishcd preaching freedom where is industrial subicction.
 Widening out from this condition, where men toll for other and fewer men, and where in so many w'r Is this means that some men exist for the service of others, this antagon ism spreads to other nations where rivalry in control is threatened from the profit system. That is to say, the profiteers of one section of the earth find their gain in another section threatened by the aggres- siveness of rival profiteers in other lands, and they use the subject class of their own nation to overcome the aggressive designs of their rivals who in turn do exactly the same thing with their employed class. Hence war under capitalism is inc vitable.