The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-15

marked and indeed in many lines wherein before the war Germany i hardly eXcelled she is now because of the wars necessity become prac- tically invincible. Moreover the commercial organization which has ramified the world with it's tentacles has still it's grasp on information al opportunity. The German busi- ness man. banker, trader, importer, shipper, sees the realization of his country's greatness in trade expansion. To him the com mercial supremacy of his country is true patriotism and gen uine kultur. His industrial and com mercial loyalty surpasses belief, and such commercial heresy as another nation producing just as good is i'm possible with him. No other nation involved in the war approaches this degree of perfection. They all lag behind, heavy losers commercially or industrially by the war. It is true that Great Britain has retained d considerable portion of her trade, that in many cases the wars neces- sities have enabled her to rebuild where before was ruin and depres- able to depend upon outside help for wares needed to prolong the war, the vital necessity that was in Ger many for national production exist ed only recently in Great Britain. Hence if peace arrived today while Germany would be in q stronger, more dictatorial and more powerful position then ever, England would be in a position of abject comn'erci- al, industrial and financial weak ness.
 Now Great Britain did not join the war for territorial aggranli:e- rient any more than she joined it for the protection of Ireland .L! the smaller nations. The war >.; 8 brought on through commercial li- yalry and Great Britain jo'Eed in the hope that that progressive wal to her commercial supremacy cuu!0 be laid low.
 And because this has not been ac- complished and because Germany is now in a position absolutely domi- mating the commercial warld, peace just now is quite impossible.
 It is true that to prolong the war may even see Germany still more do- minating and Great Britain in a still more humiliating commercial position. It is true that it is quite possible that in addition to conner cial prostration Great Britain by a continuance of the war may face ter ritorial depletion also.
 But is is evident that just now peace would wholly rebound to the further greatness of Germany and 1 the humiliation of the entente, so i for that reason it is highly improb- able.
 It is in reviewing the commercial issues at stake that the real war si- tuation is at best appraised.
 i The war so far has not struck the profteers in Great Britain any serious blow. The plutocratic inter- ests of France while more subdued in their manner of life lest they ex- cite a populace easily moved by me mories of a commune. arc making l just as vast moneys as they have ever done. The wealth and resources of Russia have been exploited since 1914 in a manner little short of in- credible. and these interests in these the continuance of the war with sublime indifference.
 It is upon the masses of the peo- pie the wars hardship fall. whether on the battlefields or in the work shops, at home or abroad. When stint begins it is the workers who are stinted and when suffering is spread over the land. it is they are agonized with enduring anguish.
 The indifference of those who rule to the sufferings of the masses is historical. and during this great war 1t is sublimely historical.
 The Russian view that the nation al existence of the nations involved in the war is the stake at this dread f..l ia xxxifho.a4 daa.ht se