The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-09

Such details as have come through as to the Presidential Message will convey different ideas to different men.
 That preparedness should be the keynote was expected: political eff feet as well as national policy de- manded such an extension of the Defense Plans.
 That the hyphenated Americans who have already registered during elections their positive disapprovai of the Wilson policies should be de- nounced was also anticipated, and that too was political.
 Entwined with the preparedness plans also is the necessary fiscal policy for carrying them out, and the judicious consideration Of such taxation as will not interfere with big business.
 The suggestion that the standard exempt from income tax should be lowered is reasonable enough. The lower the income the easier it is to collect; and experience has proved that although the most unpopular ot all taxes, because collected from workingmen directly, tho poll taxes are the easiest of all to gather.
 Placing a tax on gasoline and naptha means the higher price of these commodities, or where there is no higher price, decrease in the wages paid both very simply col iectod.
 One is not surprised considering the scathing nature of the criticism to which the administration poicies have been subjected by certain pro- German papers, the President him. self should r2tort in kind; and al though as yet the Courts of l2W have so far brought home to not a single Germcn-Amer;can citizen the reported explosions, bombist ac- tivities and other acts which have
  mand further legislation to curb these alleged activities. All that is very human, but 1t is to be hoped that no one will be fooled into con- sidering as statemGnship. It is fol lowing the line of leGst resistance either from a personal, political or national point of view: very neutral sure enough, but oftener than nol just the wrong thing to do.
 Surely every man must allow that in a democracy, criticism of public men and public policies however ex- agcratcd is a lraciuGt thing. Its right is the very foundation of free thinking and the expression of the thoughts of free end indcpenden' minds And that every man is ell titled to form his own opinion fol himself and express that opinion i; surely the most elementary prin ciple of social freedom and socia fairness.
 To fall Q prey to the journaistit activities of frankly pro-Ally writers who see a Germanist in every littii domestic disaster, or the much deep or duplicity of that terror of Amer ican social, industrial and politica life, the unspeakable private detec tive, is very far from being states manlike, and to demand upon sucl uncertain warranty special laws t. visit inuuisitorial punishment upo: upon class of citizens who ar being tried with fire in these dar! days is hardly noble. And bcyon' doubt there is a certain ignomin. in policy which affects to b alarmed at international milit&rism and flies for refuge in the very evi that it affects to dread!
 Now President Wilson hes al along based his policies upon highcr order of things than mer politics, but when man IS politi cally placed, we can expect absolu tely nothing but tactics, policie and measures which are essential political.
 Moreover one notes the entire al sence of reference to the Industria Relations Commission report Therein was a material for man messages. It's importance to tn various questions at issue mus surely be realized. They establis certain facts beyond peradventur' They are, facts which are of st preme significance. They deal nc with how the othr half lives, br