The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-23

That the Socialist Party of Amer ica intends to campaign for peace is possibly due to the strong anti-mili- tarist sentiment and propaganda that they have sedulousIy followed ia the past. But they might as well take lesson from tho attitude of their European comrades, and req sixe the futility of such a campaign
 1t would be much more logical fer them as socialists not to trouble about the European war, but to pro- mote the real cause of socialism in the United States which would act as Q preventative of all future wars without any manner of question.
 The commercial antagon:sms en- inherent in the capitalist system contain the latent germs of all wars which are not civil wars, and it is nonsense to talk of pc2cc pro- paganda when the system is slowly sarcly but inevitably developing armed conflicts.
 When the corner groceries start bucking one another in a simple community they exemplify a process which is intensified on gigantc international scale in the commerce, sf the world.
 It's not to protect the workers fn their occupations that great na- vies are built up or that great ar mics tread the earth with shaking tramp. But it is to uphold the rights of national commerce na- tional trade, national industries, na- tional finance.
 The frictions that were create1 between the United States and the various belligerents in Europe deve- loped from interference with Amer ican commerce directly or indirectly This cannot be disputed, and it is a fact that just as long as conner Cdal greatness depends as it does depend upon political dominion, sooner or later war will be thing t0 reckon with. Moreover, it can. not be disputed that peace under ca pitalism is merely the matching out tions are so disposed that conner cial rivalry creates a series of na tional psychological impulses which drive in that direction; sec the rela, tions of two such nations as Great Britain and Germany, hereditary friends with an historical affinity that figures largely throughout mo- dern history. Nu.as JL.a Seven Years War, the en-sy ui Frodericn the Great was as popular as that of King George, and the signs on the taverns to meet the popular feeling were re-pGinted so that this great est of the Hohenzollerns might meet the admiring gaze of the Eng fish people Prussian victories dur ing that time set Britain glowing with the fires of rejoicings and illu- ninations; votes in parliament made honorary officers of his greatest generals, and this condition was only an extension of spirit united the two peoples ever since the war of the Spanish Succession. There was mutual admiration relation between the scientists and the lite rary men of the two nations and on1 of greatest of the British publicists, Thomas Carlyle, extravagantly praised and extravagantly copied everything German,
 Germanism was a cult that exist ed long before Goethe and lasted much longer than Thomas Carlyle When Russian revolutionists blam- ed everything evil in their country upon Prussianism, and their writ ings breathed a hate of Germany as intense and cold as the biting winds of their rusted steppes, British statesmen found time to in- Quire into the methods of the junkers, that they could where possible copy them for the advant- age of the people.
 But with the growth of that great, efficient and cold-blooded Ger man commercialism, shrewd, logical, calculating, efficient beyond words, scientific beyond text books, metho- x1ical and systematic, the hap-hazard British methods of individualistic achievement encountered something