The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-13

the soldier has usually been blunt; candid and straightforward with hls friends What he lacks in duplicity is supplied mostly by the politicians acting as the mouthpieces of the business and financial interests. But your sturdy, plain-spoken son ol Mars will have none of these things, he is ''ill at these numbers" and goes straight to his object without turning to the right CT left. Hence in the agitation for preparedness" there is more straight talk comes from man like Major-General Leonard Wood in one address than in a million politicians and business men. on the same subject.
 Here, for example, is para graph extracted from the speech or the gallant Major General before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, and it likes us well in it's blunt directness:
 | Universal service is the one sug- gestion that has been most ap- proved. All men need not necessar- fly carry rife, but they must do something for which they are bes. fitted. If the proposition was put
 up to one thousand bankers in New | York, that with tho suffrage goes
 the obligation of service, it would
 be accepted If democracy is to pre-
 vail, we must act on that principle" l Hurrah, for the Major General! He knows what he wants, and where
 to go and get 1t. If a politician or 1 other crooked patriot were making that speech, would he have idcnti- 1 fled the voice of thousand New York bankers with the voice cf de- mocrGcy? He would not; rot in q thousand years. He would have l piddled and piffled about the great American people," the patriotic mas ses. the spirit of our forefathers, and the American Eagle and ah 1 that sort of tiresome rot. He would never dare to publicly identify what a thousand Now York bankers wanted as democracy. He would be too afraid that some of his con 5titucnts might ask him how about it, and had he sold out to Wall Street and the money interests.
 But. the Major Gencral wcsn't afraid. He fears no man, not he. He isn't terrified by tho prospect of l losing votes; he knows where the power is and isn't afraid to ap- proach. So, instead of putting it up l to the American people,, he goes straight to the rulers of the Amer ican people-a section of thcm, at least-a thousand New York bank ers-and what they say is demo cracy" for him. The others don't count. With bankers on his side, what has he to fear? Their voice is the voice of democracy, and what ever they want, that is democratic. 1 He has no time to waste on the great unwashcd herd, the mob Ot voters who think they run this coun- try. He knows his thousand New York bankers" outweigh them all
 Let the miserable, time-serving poli- ticians fiatter the mob. He disdains any such dirty work, unfit for a soldier and brave, straight forward man. He knows what they arc, and knows, too, that they arc only use full for cannon fodder. and if the see that they gro drilled and be- devilled and 'jacked up end bawled out" until ell that damned non- sense that they mistake for demo cacy" is shaken out of them.
 Perhaps the Major General isn't
 externally" right. But hc is unde- niably right as to present conditions. Whatever we may call our political fetish, democracy" or any other name, it is represented by bankers, fnancicrs and business men. end by none else, and by going straight to the fountain head Major General Wood shows, at least. that he un- derstands tho situation thoroughly. ! No-y Uarlr Call A..4f