The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-12


 forces from GalIipoli is an incident of this war which inevitably calls to mind, the abandonment of the campaign for the time being in the Spanish Peninsula during the wars of the first Napoleon, the latter eva cuation so well remembered on ac- count of Wolf's remarkable threno- dy, the Burial of Sir John Moore, and familiar to almost every school hoy.
 Indeed it is morally certain that the same popular frame of minc will be in evidence in Great Britain following this withdrawal as found expression in the mournful yet stur- dy lines by the Irish clergymen who rose to enduring fame upon that single poem: ,. we buried him darkly at dead oi
 night,
 The sods with our bayonets turning Meath the struggling moonbeams
 misty light
 And lanterns dimly burning. Few and short were the words we
 said
 And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we stcadfastly gazed at the face
 of the death
 And bitterly thought of the
 morrow"
 1t is quite safe to say that thei C will be many bitter thoughts in Great Britain over this withdrawal, critical thoughts and resentful that the incapacity of tho leaders should have brought the country D the present pass.
 Now precisely the same thing was manifested during tho whole of the Napoleonic wars winch were il- Iumined upon tho side of Or, t Britain on land with very little ca pacity for organization, and they blundered through to final triumph only because they simply stayod with it tirelessly end with indomit- able tcnacity of purpose.
 If there is anything made mani- fest today it is thct tho organized human units making up the belligcr- ent nations depend for their safety not upon the presence of any Moses. but upon their own organized caps city to endure and to persist.
 The days of Moses have passed away for ever, and it is only myth to suppose that any particular class Is endowed with supremer gifts that tho other, and that accomplishments are easy to enc class because of their being supermen.
 This is no unimportant matter It reveals the lack of existence Cf any real aristocracy in the literat sense, whether of wealth or genius or position. The safety lies in or ganization of the collective body ot the people, always supposing that the masses will persist in the pur- suit of the object sought to be at tained.
 Take any average twelve men, of they will collectively, despite dis advantages of education and eI. Vironment the most marked, even np attainments.
 Here and there may be an occa- 'sional one possessed of superior gifts, but here or there will be one whose attachments are due to causes purely fictitious, and on tho whole the twelve men will equalize one another.
 Adam Smith said that if all were given an equal opportunity as to education and environment; well fed, generously supplied with hu man needs and provided with tho means of coping with life's obstac- les, there would not be anything like the present time disparity Of talent that is supposed to be appar- ent
 This is being brought out clearly in this war. A government like Great Britain is dominated by an ar;stocracy of wealth or position fbirth). Practically every one in a position of control is descended froin a long limo of aristocratic ancestors ], pr possessed of considerable wealth and property. They arc the domi-