The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-29

should be thorough end should be j the acme of efficiency. No nation
 should have bigger army or big
 ger navy; no nation should have it's
 social system modelled along more
 efficient military lines; not single
 social activity from the highest to the lowest but should be reduced to terms of military efficiency. The
 railroads, the tclegraphc, the roads the coast, the shipping all should
 be made adjuncts of national pre- Iparation, and the people of the
 country compelled to serve as mili- tary units and to subordinate their
 activities in business or at work to the supreme necessity of being thoroughly competent to fight.
 1 Whats the use of peddling about this condition which the country
 faces? Whats the use of theoriz- ing on ideals, on sentimental mat
 ters, on principles, on moralities
 on ethics?
 I Given capitalism and given g sys-
 tenn red in tooth and claw and
 given, as said on previous occa-
 sion, the jungle, then the methods
 of the jungle must be adopted
 But granted the necessity for mi litarism, to be reasonable let it be : also admitted that all the finer theo ries of life are all humbug and cant and superstition and bombastic
 nonsense. Granted the necessity to
 be prepared to destroy our enemies, 1. why should any person affect to ] believe that the injunction to love
 your enemies is divine teaching : Granted the necessity and the logic in hating one's .1emy, in being l ready to infiict death, ruin and damnation upon noighboring na- : tions, why should there be any pre- , tense in believing the doctrine that i've should love our neighbor as our selves and pray for those who in- : jure us?
 Why shouldn't the air be cleared
 of all this sophistical rubbish if the economic system makes the theories } of christian life impossible? If the . choice is clear and distinct as to a l life of service and justice and love, or capitalism, why should not the , people be rid as quickly as possible of affectation and hypocrisy and re- r alize conditions?
 l The Army League, the National Security League, all of these people
 are right that the country is In danger when not prepared to fight, , for the system involves the country l constantly in international antagon- ; ism and international squabblos. But since they are right, why not t Ipursue the logic of the situation,
 and also admit that the moralists ; with their theories of christian } humility and christian forbearance : and christian charity and christian 1, love and christian forgiveness arc , just as empty and vain and useless
 and impossible under capitalism as | the christian elevation of poverty T to the supreme bench of virtues. t Why should a people stultify it. s self by affecting to believe in the ) brotherhood of man in the father : hood of God, and proceed to maim, B slay and destroy mankind in fear, | ful wars and industrial systems 5 where some have all and the rest 2 have nothing?
 If militarism is sensible and ne
 cessary because sensible; if prepar- t edness is intelligent and imperative, ? why not brush aside the motheaten l hypocrisy that is imposed upon the
 people by a lot of archaic ideas as t to human relations and their moral y basis?
 u Beyond any manner of doubt this : development of militaristic prepar-
 edness born from the exigencies ot i. the occasion is one of the fines; e things has ever occurred. It clears q away the fog of superstition and < the mists of hypocrisy, and shows
 lus capitalism, tho System that de Z yours it's own children in all its ! grim reality. It reveals that ths F teachings that have been held up te ( mankind as those that should b. s followed have not and can not bt l. the measure of mans acts or ths $ guide of mans steps. That thu r. struggle for existence under capital s ism is such that 1t places mar