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

1 how the other three fOurthS exist | | They reveal conditions ill populous and industrial centers, in the hives l
 of industries that may well occasion
 misgiving. They display stage ot
 exploitation that cannot be main
 tained without the utter destruction
 of democracy. They are not rant; nor political rhodomOntade; they
 are the judicial conclusions from
 classified facts that arc undeniab C.
 In relation to the matter of pre-.
 paredness they are of enormous i'm
 portance; in the matter of the con
 tinued of existence of American de-
 mocracy they are of supreme i'm portance. They were not collected
 by socialists or even radicals, bur by men skilled in the collection of facts, men trained to investigate, and they were placed before men
 who are accustomed to draw concl,l- sions with the mathematical exact ness that two and two art, four. Ircp2rCQneSS Hdy Do ueEeSSdIy.
 Taxation may be necessary to en-
 force preparedness. Penal ie:Sisla"
 tion to curb the activities of alleged
 hyphenates may be necessary But
 to make the people prepared first ot
 all must be established an economic
 coRtentment where is now discon- . tent; a more equitable distribution , of the product of labor; a more just consideration for the rights of the
 workingmen; fairer opportunity and , fairer education for the youth of | the land; an ideal not that dogs 5 shoud be obeyed in office, but that no dogs should be in office, and that : ures, made to enslave free workers. 7 that have been the heritage of a , less enlightened age should be re- l moved
 These are things that are vital to } national preparedness. They gre the foundation stone of nat onal  5 is founded upon the shifting sands of industrial instability, is bound to : collapse under trial,
 It is mighty easy to denounce the ? Cermanist or Pro-German activities F in the United States, but as yet no l German-American citizen has been | convicted of any crime in connec-
 tion with the war that can just t now be recalled to mind. Yet they ( are subjected almost daily to q - series of petty insult or degrading s sneers in editorials, in cartoon, in 9 news article, in false reports that 9 would test the loyalty the faith, [ the confidence of the most loyal. - It is monstrous idea that may l. possibly be generated by such Q ; generalized denunciation of hyphen- : ates that the citizens of this coun- l try whatever their nationality, are
 not wholeheartedly loyal in this G war. No native born American Il s subjected or can be subjected to Q the refinement of test, the - torture of the present struggle - really is for the vast ma Il jcrity of naturalized citizens. That > this refinement of torture is due to j. national traits which represent g h perverted method of thinking, cuts 0 no manner of figure. The fact re T mains that it is there, and that it is C cutting them to the quick wher X they see their native land and theil 4 people subjected to such wholesale V and wholly senseless denunciatiof #, as men who ought to know better l. and who do know better, subjec Il them to.
 The Industrial Worker is not pro Il German. Nor is it attempting tt q defend any race or nationality whicl e drags with it to this country racia i. ideas and racial favoritism and Ia l. cial antiquities which have n' ,s place in the American Common y wealth. Those who came here lief
 their native land, to use Bernart D. Shaws excellent expression, to stey al in its own grease, and further witt ts it they have nought to do .beyon' " pleasant memories to and pleasan le duties towards the old home an' st kinsfolk.
 ,n But who will find tho perfect ma, e. among the naturalized citizens wh u- can by swearing allegiance to tn ot country become, as it were. ne' ut born not only as to citizenship bu