The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-10

c6ntrallZat1On. In America there are Industrial Monarch and a num- Der of tributary feofs who owe them industrial allegiance. The, have their men-at-arms, their re- tainers, their serfs. The condition is amost established, but the estab- lishment wholly ignored.
 History is not repeating itself, but history is working out it's processes by analogy.
 Here and there protests are heard But they are voices crying in the wilderness. Besides their voices are for the most part hot air, very vain and useless against the deeds of the representatives of Big Business.
 There is no organized opposition to the program which Perkins map ped out. Preparedness industrial and military is being adopted, be- ing urged and being forced upon the reople.
 Perkins and the rest want an educational system which will make the residents of this country good workers. They demand a scientific organization of government to that end They demand that education be directed to that finality. They insist that in order that Big Busi- ness, any where and everywhere, all over the world, can be able to assert itself against all corners, even with the Big Stick. they must have the Big Stick
 That is what the Big Stick is fo:. That is what the Big Tariff is to be for. That IS what eduaction is to lead up to. That is what politics is to consist of. The nation and the state and the officers of the govern ment are to be appendices to Big Business. Big Business is to be the sole inspiration of the national ex- istence Trade eXtension; profits; financial control-these are the Gods of our national existence. They are to be the fundamentals of our faith; they are to be the inspiration of our lives; they gre to be direc- tors of our destiny.
 All men must serve, mentally, po- litically and industrially, big busi- ness. That's the faith according to Perkins, and it is all right for the Perkinses and the class to which he belongs.
 But they are so few, what of the many? They are the hundreds, what Of the millions?
 It would appear that that should occa3ion thought somewhat. Bu1 it doesn't at all. You cen search any of the articles which are writ ten on this modern subject of in- duStrial and military preparedness and not one seems inspired with the highly desirable notion of making the masses happier and the major ity more blessed. It does not seem worth while,
 It is true as is the view of the Perkins that the masses themselves do not consider their own interest. That is correct But it is only be- cause the Perkins and the Pc 'kins servants hGve been perverting the instincts of the masses these years so that they have come to regard the interests of the Perkins as their own.
 It is true that there can be no change in the situation until the masses themselves will look after themselves And that is why those who are ready should make it their duty to prepare the masses to culti- vatc their own as against the inter- ests of their exploiters.
 Reforms from time to time will come. Palliatives will from time to time be doled out. But surely un- til the masses themselves will attack the evils which are confronting them, and realize their own inter- ests as we'll as the Perkins they can hope for little.
 It is a pleasure to read the ad- -