The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-10

of the many by that few; it means that a small oligarchy in industr3 and finance will control the lives and destinies of the rest of the na. tion.
 Now everyone knows that this Is so. Those who stop to think what it means when efficiency and super organization for world control re. ceive powerful boosts, know it very well. But they close their eyes to the inevitable logic of the situation and affect to believe that American democracy will be the same Amer icon democracy when every man had his own little mill, his own little plot of ground and his own method of earning a living without let or intolerance from any man or Get of men.
 The principles of freedom could have been the ideal in relatively poor community with every man striving for existence in friendly ri- valry, are not the same that will prevail when the wealth of the coun- try is held in the hollow of one mans hand, and the rest of the peo- pie are serving folk That's clear or | it should be clear.
 If a man owns the only means whereby Q community liveC that man dominates every activity there in. He dominates tho lawyer whom he rctcins, the preacher whosc pull pit he supports, the doctor whose hospital fees he dOles out, the boss whom he makes his foreman, the wage worker whom he grants per mission to work. It is absurd anu ridiculous to place the hirelings of a corporation as on the came plane of independence as it's president or the boerd of directors. And it IS monstrous condition of perverted thought to imagine that with an ideal set before the nation of bloated wealth for very few and serving places for the very many, you are going to loave it possible for the principles enunciated in a Dcclara- tion of Independence to dominate the mentality of that people. and dominating their mentality dominate
 heir lives.
 And the people realize thct. They refer with contempt to anything that appears in keeping with the prin- ciples of the Declaration of Inde- pendenco as Fourth of July clap-trap. We have heard antagonists in courts and on political platforms refer with such derisive contempt to the re- marks that tended to show the poss- ibility of such idealism remaining.
 The husk only remains. The ker- nel has disappeared and nation that lives upon the husks of former idealism is going the road to revo- lution just as fast as evolution can |
 bring it about.
 Any way it's good to know where we are at. It's no use peddling to ourselves that the people of this country will have a share in It be- cause Morgan is the financial mo- march of the world or Rockefeller it's industrial emperor. All we know Is that it is too much power for any man in democracy. That 1t should be inherent in the system is al. the more unfortunate for the system.
 We don't blame Rockefeller nor Morgan nor the rest. If they were not the human field upon which these economic forces made such developments as are. identir1ed with them,, someone else unquestionably would. They are creatures of capi- talism. Just the same as we arc. They are those who profitted by tha system in excessive measure. but under the system someone was bound to do so. The point is that Itop capitalism and democracy are Eventually incompatible. And when mon begin to glory in the future (which holds out wealth of such gi- gantic proportions ss to staggSr the imagination and just for . very few. while identifying that condition as q state of national happiness, we can we'll understand to what extont tho perversion Of thought in the Inter est Of that few has been achieved? { ' f+*@ sttA -~--~>----~~>--~-~s iAH H 4 a xI .,,s ai N &.tI p.a a,sd Ak,sr.1ss.