The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-25

CduHOt ODldlu IL, they lHpOTL JuelI menials. In turn the emect their association has had with the Euro pean upper classes has precisely the same effect upon those who asso ciate with travelled Americans here, and the same extension ot snobbery is witnessable even in the remotest corners.
 Moreover this is only an example. It refers merely to the social side of life, but in almost every way, the rich America of today is totally different in spirit to what it was one hundred years ago and it can not be otherwise by reason of it's industrial development.
 The latest of the results of an association with Europe is the effort
 to foist militarism upon the peo. pie.
 The methods that appeared de- lightful in the English army to ,i- sitting Americans and to visiting American officers especially, have resulted in the system being adopt ed holus bolus in America, and even now American officers have gone 10
 the extreme of copying the GU: Cf their garments from the British. They adopted khaki, they intro duced putees and the leggings which distinguished the logging ot the private from the officer is that the officer wears what the British officer wears, while the private has the much more efficient and com fortable American design.
 As everyone knows the English army has been the happy hunting ground of the English aristocracy whose members joined it for plea sure. The man promoted from the ranks was a rare bird and made to feel it. The distinction between the two men-the officer and pri- FdIe WdS CdIlltu lO q llulCulOun extreme that only became modified after the Boer war had shot little sense into the officials.
 If any one takes the care to read any of this propaganda stuff that Is urged in favor of preparedness, one can easily see that the same idea is uppermost in the minds of both military and naval officers and bus mess men as well. The officer class is to be recruited solely from uni versailles and from the ranks of the business man while the serving man in the ranks is to be the wage worker.
 Why it's only a short time ago since a petty officer in the navy was turned down from promotion be cause in the opinion of Admiral Sampson he couldn't dance the waltz or perform some other equally social stunt that would not add to and might impair his effici- ency as a naval officer.
 The idea is due to the industrial system that prevails, for this indus rial system has developed a condi- ion precisely similar to what feu. lalism was and the expression used ,y Brandeis, industrial absolutism vas far from unhappy although industrial feudalism would have 'uited it better.
 If any person has any idea that l big army or big navy has solely or it's purpose the defense of this ,ountry they can we'll take to heart he circular recently issued by Pa fife Coast Businessman's Prepared less League. We select a few para ,raphs:
 'In the general apprehension for ,reater preparedness to cope with oreign nations it is believed that
 necessity fully as grave and seri- us is being overlooked or at least really minimized, and that is the eed of an adequate military estab- to. act as civil police force.
 Due to the lack of sufficient mill ia, businessmen in the United | tates have frequently been placed | nder the undue burden of having | 9 engage and pay for the services men recruited privately and to ave them commissioned as depu- ! les by the civil authorities. In the ature of things these private forces re without sufficient military train lg as at Youngstown, Ohio and