The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-28

fsee fellow unioniGts out of a joD could not overlook the fact that the strikebreakers was recruited from the dive and the dump; that ther2- in was the striking worker robbed and cast an expense upon the rest of his fellow strugglers; that the through which the boss operated against the demands of the men for better conditions. They didn't cara a whoop in hell for the prohibition movement, and it is probable that most of them resent the idea. of dictating whether man should or should not drink as much as being dictated to. But they observed the saloonist with his diamonds the price of outrage, and robbery, ana abuse, and they hated it as an insti- tuition.
 It is hard to tell which is the more to blame for the condition which obtained, the people them selves who allowed a police power to fatten upon the inquity of the saloons or the saloons themselves. Under capitalism men will go jus. as far as they can with impunity And they will go just as far in the machinery of the law, prostitutins justice as in the saloon business. We don't want to forget that at all
 But the main fact iS that when all is said and done, the saloon is abolished not because men want to prohibit drinking, but rather to pro. hibit the saloon. It is recognized as an evil and a much bigger evil than mere drinking.
 Although the saloon is abolished in Washington state, we cannot ex pect the millennium. The saloon is after all only an effect, If all the booze foundries and booze empori- ums were abolished tomorrow, there would still be misery, pover- ty and want in this old world. The cause is not at the sGlooi. bar, not at the drinking habit, but is at the point of production. Governor Pear son of Colorado who appointed Judge Hillyer notorious tool of of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Go. to try the strikers who had been in dicted in Colorado was elected on a prohibition movement; its notorious that Billy Sunday is used by the worst exploiting companies to chloro- form the slaves with his brand of religious and temperance dope. And it is very easy to understand thaI the labor movement could be side tracked without much ado if we were to adopt the capitalist brand of morals as our light and guide.
 Working class opposition to the those who are allies of the police power; those wherein the gangster furnishes the employing classes their thugs and their strike break CTS.
 1 Four-ffths of the strikebreakers furnished in the zones where trouble became acute were denizens of the lowest sinks of iniquity Murder to these was a pastime, and robbery a fine art. Sex perverts, low browed degenerates they spent their wages of sin in the dumps and dives that have become in the cities a by word of shame and scandal Allied !. with the bosses in politics, they made use of the poverty they inten- sified to corrupt and brow beat the voters into balloting their own damnatios. But you never sec the : higher ups. Many of those who fa. ten upon the profits of shame are in the church pews and in the social organizations.
 Tn capitalism you cannot separate the sheep from the goats; don't you , ever think it. The brush tars the lot with the same brand, and it is the brand of exploitation. Trace the dollar to its source though it ) came from the collection plate, and you will ultimately reach the taint It cannot be otherwise, and it will ) not be otherwise until tho workers themselves control the means where by they live. Any other view is a lpipe dream. You can't legislate virtue when the system promotes vice; you cannot disinfect society