The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-18

this view is engendered by the sue Icass of Americans or for any jeai- ousy of their supremacy in industry and finance. The view IS due solely and absolutely to the fact that the foreign nations everywhere come in contact not with all that is best and all that is really fine In the Amer. ican character, but all that is really base and really sordid and rcally dcspicable and truly unprinciplel but powerful therein. They come in contact with class not by any means popular in wide sections and among large portions of the American people themselves. the High Financiers and the Mono polists, who insist on having more than their pound of flesh from Am orleans and foreigners alike.
 The foreign nations insist upon re- garding these people with the in stinct of vampire bat as represen- tative of the American people which they arc not, but because they arc so regarded their activities will 1 be always a menace to the security of the entire American people al home or abroad.
 One of the most serious facts In American public life is that ths greater talents end virtues and finer
 points of the Am 3rican people find little or no expression. The great papers, the greater weeklies, maga- zines, reviews arc solely devoted to the High Finance cult; that obtains control of parties and politicians; they sway administrations however well intentioned and they dominate American life and especially Amer" lican public life almost completely. Tho magazines devoted to youth manage to inject the Ideals which the plunderbund advocate as the national ideals, end the entire na- ton pays the penalty in oppression at home and loss of reputation abroad The distrust of the Am erican people manifested throughout South America is no mere chance; Iit is born of esd experience will dollar diplomacy and High Finar- ciers. And although only represen- .atiye of relatively very small DOT. ton of the people it is translated
 B the characteristic of the Amer ican people, end representative os the entire nation
 Now not all Amcrice is money mad Not all America is con scionco!oss nation imbucd with only one idea of bulldozing its way to the profit pile rogardlecs of every finer sentiment and noblor feeling.
 Nothing could be q more errone- ous idea. The deepest seated sentI- ment in the majority of Americans is to resist wrong to cny desperate ex- tremc. 1t manifcsts it0olf in the much despised l. w. w., Tn the Farmer s Oranges, in reactionary unions, iI hospital associations, in Industrial Relations Commission, in Farmers Cooperative associations, Tn the often misguided but always live re- form parties that try and try and try again to make political life bet CT and freer, and the courts more real dispensers of justice and less the administrators of money made law It is so often an irrationai and so often an incohcront sentl- ment that it reacts upon itself, bu. it develops just the same the na- tion and the, nations course, de- spite everything and every obstacle that rises to overwhelm it. It man. ifestcd itself in tho heart breaking agitation of the earlier and moro unsuccessful abolitioniGts and Is personified just as much in Wendell Phillips as in Abraham Lincoln, and men like Thoreau and Emerson with an, mate devotion to personal and national freedom, are always iu 1.-the majority in American life ai- though they find such scant express sion in these days of tho kept press and servile news service.
 Because it's the noisiest of all ideals and it's devotees occupy public positions and shout their mad de- signs from; the housetops and glory in their insanity. the dollar except