The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-02
CANDID ANY WAY.

Just a little reprint from the Army and Navy Journal of February i2. 1916 rage 755, middle column under the caption French Military and Naval Notes, a short and illn- minating and suggestive paragraph
 Happily the lessons of the 1s70- Il conflict, when the incompetence and whims of gas-bags of the Gam betta type enumerated tho efforts of the able Chanzy, Faidhcrbe and An relies de Paladines, have not been forgotten and the men of words (which is the natural production of democracies) have this time little chance to usurp the place of the men of action.
 Now that short paragraph is not quoted in order to refer to the sub- iect that the writer is considering, but for it's remarkably candid view about ''the natural production or democracies linen of words, gas bags. It has been already stated that the Journal is a soldiers paper, published for soldiers. It is frank as a soldier is frank and it is under no delusion as to what are the evils of democratic system as compared with mlitaristic system.
 | No person despising a political de- mocracy could have expressed theic contempt for such system Of na' 'tional existence more clearly than does that writer.
 He is not bit misled by the high falutin language of the most expert politician. To him what counts are deeds not words. He knows that four-ffths of the baggage of the average politician consists of gas bags. And he feels because of the fact. witnessed with painful regular ity. of the politicians expert bun combe that this is the characteristic of the democracy he is familiGr with
 The question is not whether this view is right or wrong. It is view shared by quite good many who are not soldiers. But the i'm portant fact is that it is the soldi- CTS view
 He is trained man of action. It he gets orders to go he goes or to come, he comes. His is not to req son why. but to do or die. To him life is a serious thing involving commanding or receiving commands. It's psychological effect is autocratic and in most essentials the vory an- tithesis of democratic. It possesses the saving virtue of directness of word and promptness of action; d. rectness of word only where It | leads to such action.
 So whatever may be his delusions as to the virtue of obedience and the virtues of discipline and system, he is under no delusions at all as to the illusions which democracies muI- tiply and the wild fantasies that the politicians therein foster. To him the latter are "gas bags, and their words a nuisance. Their plentitude of oratory an inutility, and their fervor of rhetoric a waste of tims and energy.
 Yet without doubt he has in the United States come to a strange parting of the ways. The United States is a political democracy. It has its share of gas bags. It has it's own portion of political bunco- steerers. But, most of these are not wholly unassociatod with tho mi litarists, and they are emitting from their abundant and we'll filled gas bags much perturbing oratory fav- bring the establishment of militaT- ism which otherwise looks not at all favorably upon them.
 All of which would make the rest worry somewhat about the social value of both the politicians and the militarists-gas bags or otherwise.
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