The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-27

The New York Board of Health has authorized the sale of horse flesh in January.
 Thus. under capitalism, we rise to the stars.
 There's lots of good beef raised killed and cured in America.
 There's lot of prime mutton, ex- ceilent pork and succulent Alaska reindeer, if need be.
 But it's more profitable to sell this meat to Europe than to con- sume it at home, because simply the classes which lack beef, pork, nutton, reindeer haven't got the price.
 It's all a question of profits not as some might suppose the perform ance of a useful function rebound ing to the welfare, comfort and en- ioyment of the people.
 Most still enjoy belief in the myth that industries are carried on for the purpose of human welfare. The majority of the people are cheerfully of the belief that agricui- ture for example is carried on in the country for the purpose Of feeding, clothing, or shcltcring the people
 But not a single industry is car ried on for that purpose. They are carried on for profits. If there were no profits they wouldn't last . day. Common sense would close them ill au hour.
 But whether they function use fully or not, just as long as profits are forthcoming just so long will they be actively carried on.
 There is no good reason why Am erican people should not eat what is raised in America first and there after feed the rest of the world when to them sufficioncy had been given.
 There is no good reason why the
 
 have first call upon meat, tho wheat, the fruit, the vegetables, the cloth ing, wooden linen or cotton, and thereafter the needs of other na- 'tions supplied. Industries function usefully when they furnish sutfici- ently to those in need, what is re quired.
 Industries do not function use- fully when good clothing is exported and the people wear shoddy; when the beef and pork and mutton is ex- ported and the people eat horse flesh. But it is not uae CT worth or human welfare that cuts any man. ner of figure. out solely Profits. " The be-all and end-all of indus !, try is profits.
 Take another view. Here is the munitions industry. Into it are , turned men from most useful indus tries by the hundred and by the thousand Mills that furnished forth tools, mechanisms, machinery r useful to men are silent; mills which produce chemicals deadly and destructive and ruinous to hu- ' man beings are working overtime, The roar of their machinery never ceases; thousands upon thousands of hands are tirolessly busy ir tending the works that produce death and maiming.
 It's all question of profits. The profits in munitions are enormous. They are so great that even other manufacturers are fearful on ac count of them lest they reveal the damnable profit system to the pee pie. They are described as de- grading, as debauching, as danger ous and they are-to capitalism.
 Comes now the man who will at tempt to uphold capitalism what can he say against these arguments How can he sustain the murderous system that robs the people of thlc country to fatten those in othe. places? Which diverts mon from useful, intelligent, beneficial func 9ions in industry to murderous miserable, maiming, destructive functions?
 Yet any other system will ruir the home, break up the family anG rear false gods for the people to fal down before.
 Surely therc is no God like unt'