The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-10

ica, although the elementary moral ity of international diplomacy is cer- tainly based upon the principle Of a Quid pro quo. AS long as Japan is denied territory in the Americas, il is not likely to view the acquisition of Asiatic soil by an American na- ton without all acute sense Of wrong and injustice, nationally and internationally speaking.
 Consequently there has been pro nounced eT0rt made to corral the markets of China, by compelling for Japan as a dominant Asiatic power. a most favored nation treatment in the rigidly exclusive sense. And the little frictions that disturbed the soul of Yuan Shi Kai before he joined his much worshipped ancest- ors were due entirely to the emphatic and energetic demands of Japan for such prior rights for Nippon throughout China.
 It is not insignificant that the Japanese demands have been the subject of diplomatic conversations or notes between the United States and China and between the United States and Japan. Just at the pre- sent time the pastime of killing one
 I, t,I, ic pinp h e brains and the brawn of Europe has resulted in the unusual productivity of American industries finding an | abnormal outlet. Hence China is not 1 of immediate concern. It was mere i lv prudent foresight upon the part ! of government on behalf of the Am
 erican profteers that induced it to manifest some concern in the matter
 of what great Englishman has called the "Open Door,. However
 when the European seance ot
 murder and capitalist atrocity has
 winded itself before disgusted au-
 dience. and the American industrial and commercial over-lordS like Alex
 ander will sigh for other world
 markets to conquer, we may reason
 ably expect that China will engage
 he attention of their minds. Ther
 will begin an interesting competitio,
 between Nippon and America whict
 may very easily lead the American
 business men to regard war witl
 Japan in not quite so unfavorabl' light. They will have little to lose
 They have their intuition plant awaiting governmen: contracts, the. will be eager to advance to the Am
 erican government cash at so mucl
 per cent to provide new sinews 10
 an American War God; not having
 to fight themselves except on pa , per and through the editorial page of the press they control, they cal : very cheerfully and periodically en ter upon a war with light heart. Tn , sacrifice of a million men is not s . serious a matter when the industria
 loss of life through accident, indus trial disease or poverty induced b. the system is now quite as extensiv and peace is some death dealer it : self. And it is wonderful how calm 3 lv one can observe the slaughter o r the battlefields and the materializa . tion of hell upon earth when on | reads reports of it in comfortabl chair in a comfortable room, re | moved then from the annoying in T conyeniences of even the wind an l weather.
 We can go away back in histor
 to discover the fact that sine B wealth accumulation became tn l reason for a nations existence. pro t fit has been the cause of war. It l economic basis is unmistakable. An s when any nation devotes itself
 an international trade it follows inc f vitably that international complics T tions sooner or later result
 7 Great Britain has not a marke f today which has not been tAe sut al feet of a war, whether that be : colony which is self governing c :. governed by the Grown. And no 1 s tion can attempt to spread out witi : out it's ambitions to accumula' C wealth through trade provoking
 clash sooner or later with other ni y tions inspired with the same exal ? ed devotion to the God of Cola.
 l. It is therefore an exhiliratingl C patriotic notion for the workers y understand that it is their precio' l. destiny to sacrifice their bodies au n ing peace to the profiteers and
 provide ample fighting material G time of war that the profits of the