The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-29
SIR HIRAM MAXIM.

London serves to direct attention to the international nature of capital.
 Maxim was typical modern ca pitalist. Without concerning our selves with the natural ability Of the man, the most striking fact ill connection with him is that born an American, he voluntarily chose the field where he obtained the best op- portunities for the investment of his capital, his country.
 He is the head of the hamilton trust in Great Britain and he has been urging more and more arms and ships and ammunition for the British Empire.
 It was not because he would re. gard the extinction of the imperial aims of Britain as any sort of a' world calamity, but because connect ed with that imperial expansion were his industrial activities, and the more and more arms, ships and munitions were sold, the larger and 
 the juicier were his contracts.
 In him is exemplified the dena- tionalization which capitalism is forcing upon the capitalists. They all are not concerned with the flag under which they operate, but they all are concerned with the uphold ing of that flag which is profitable to them.
 Patriotism to them is material fact, and with it's materiaism comes an ease of repatriation wonderful in itself.
 The British empire has given many notable examples of the deli berate choice upon the part of many distinguished and wealthy foreign CTS in making the flag of Great Bri- tain, their flag Not because of any wonderfully superior characteristics which that flag possessed, but be- cause it gave them an unequalled field for exploitation.
 Take Alfred Belt, for another ex- ample Belt was reputed when alive 10 be the richest man in the world. He controlled practically three quarters of the Rand and that was hardly the beginning of his mining enterprises. He was a German, born in Hamburg and to his dying day he never spoke a word of English without markedly bctraving his Ger man origin. He became a Brits subject. He became a British sub ject with intense ideas concerning a big navy and big army and a big imperialism. He had nothing but contempt for those who opposed his views and politically he was a Tory bitterly anti-German.
 Even while Belt was forswearins Germany, Germany was taking front rank among the great industrial countries of the world. But that did not prevent Belt from throwing in his lot with England, because with that lot was united his great fortune and his immense profits.
 Belt himself said that no matter what nationality a man might be, il was reasonable to suppose that where he amassed wealth, there he would seek his fatherland. But the Greek dramatist centuries before had embodied this in a well known line that "wheresoever a man is sue ,cessful that is his native land.
 The modern idea of such expatria- ton is quite different than that which Aristophanes had in mind. To- day it is realized that control Of the economic power, whether in Rus sia, in Germany, in the United States or Great Britain, is accompa- nied by the same degree of political and social power. Hence it is quite immaterlai to a Maxim whether he is state of Mainer or a British 1 subject, head of the British firm of Maxim, Vickers and Maxim Limited.
 Nor is this all. It is quite imma- terial, as Marx pointed out, whether the wealth which the ca pitalist acquires comes from the | labor of the Chinaman, the Hindu, the European or the American la borer. It is not the nationality 0f the laborer that cuts any figure. It is the amount of surplus profit