The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-22

ally take hold of the man with broad and rolling acres of meadow lana owned by him and from which he extracts satisfactory profit.
 Yet, the certain fact is that it is upon the worker with little or no property to protect, with nothing al stake that the entire system of pre- paredness will fall. He will be speeded up in the intuition factory or speeded out to the front to stop bullets. The fight will have to he maintained by his bravery and his tenacity ana earnestness and his determination. It is only to ignore the acts of life to think that these attributes can be established without the secure foundation of material social justice.
 We hear much concerning the evils of German militarism. But we heas very little of the efforts made to prevent racial deterioration in Ger many, and to secure for that em- pire well-fed and loyal soldiers. The loyalty of the German soldier is not all sentiment; that is the least part of it. The average German knows very we'll that he is, as national unit, as an individual member of his nation, better fed, better housed, better secured against unemploy- ment, sickness and injury than are those whom he is fighting against. He went to war a we'll fed man with clear mind and a clean body. Whatever tyrannies as a militarist power the state effected against him collectively, at least the state ind!- vidually went in between the ruth less eXploiter and the exploited and marked the limit of the latter's ra- pacity. It secured some compensa- ton against injury and death; it in- sured against unemployment and old age; 1t saw to his being fed when hungry and that his creature needs were attended to.
 It took great care of his health in his industrial occupations; the smelterman was not leadod, the matchworker suffered from nc phossy jaw. mineral poisoning did not make short the lives of the li' noleum workers; the chemical la, borer was sure of good health i1 the unhealthiest occupation; hours were shortened in proportion to the heat of the furnace for the furnace men; special dietary privileges pro- vided for men in chloride works; the manufacture of lead paints made prohibitive and superior substitutes compulsory. efe lsas.et
 It is in fact completely impossible to conceive anything more startling than the contrast between industria conditions as they obtain in Ger many and as they obtain in the United States.
 The United States pays more wages; has a better standard of liv ing in general but that's about all The workers are compelled to worl longer hours, to work and produce more intensively and their safet! and their health is completel! ignored.
 The evils of militarism are grea and manifold. But ss we see il the militarism of Germany is to b. transplanted to the United State with not even the shadow of an ct fort made to provide industrial con ditions as favorable for the workers
 We believe the efficiency of tn German military and naval organl zation is greatly exaggerated. It exaggerated for the express pur pose of making 1t worthy of re adoption by other nations with tn preparationist bug in their head We believe that the efficiency of tn German social organization is reall lupon which Germany's success ha hitherto depended.
 Great Britain and the Unite States are acclaimed as the tw
 countries wherein individualism
 the keynote of the national exist
 ence. Yet any sort of an examine tion of actual facts shows that 1t
 only those who a are men of sut stance --prepertied and wealthy
 who can exercise that individualisI