The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-12
MIGHT.


 picts the late Yuan Shi Kai glancing through a long telescope towards the western nations and declaring that "the more l look westward, the more thoroughly convinced l am that the fundamental principle of all culture is might.
 The irony of the cartoonist is fundamentally correct whether he :, intended it or not, and might un- unquestionably rules the world, whatever channels it may be exer- cised through.
 It is true of course that most of the nations espouse a religion O. relations nor in international affairs do those convictions if they are con victions find expression.
 We begin at school to experience authority which exercises it's might and maintains discipline which in itself is directed towards a cul- ture having for it's fundamental principle the right of might. And this condition is continued through life in mans struggle for existence and in various manifestations, one interest or another provides, of the exercise of economic or industrial and through that, political might.
 The efforts to prevent the free re- spiration of individual opinion is al ways in evidence in the scheme Of things, and newspapers, preachers and politicians are perpetually en- deavoring to make the individuals conform to the conventions which are nothing more or less than the sanctions of those who posses eco homie and political might.
 These interests although of the of the many, and to bring pressure to bear upon all who refuse to en- dorSe the views put forward. And we have many examples of this un- thinking popular opinion which has sold itself into bondage, because it had not either courage or know ledge, to the more powerful few, en- deavoring as the majority opinion, to compel all to do as they do and to think as they think and to be- lieve as they believe.
 Our entire system is built upon that condition; and different prin- ciples founded upon abstract justice are utterly impossible of acceptance, just because impractical, before the existance of privilege and power controlled by the industrially and financially great.
 The fact is, and everyone knows it. the doctrines of Christianity are impractical in this society of ours The teachings that Christ has put forth as a light and guide and Ian tern to the feet of men, cannot be carried out when profits are the ir' centive, and the golden rule is only to be practised within the strict li- mutations of a profitable operation of a mans business.
 But all do not know that this con dition can be traced back to the means whereby soceity maintaino itself. Some men who own the fac tories, the mines and the mills-the land and machinery for production and distribution own these things because that ownership gives them the right to deny access to the means of subsistence, if they so will to all those who do not own. And in granting the propertiless the right to labor, are also entitled to ex- tract from them who use that pro- perty, all that is produced by the propertiless so employed, unless save just enough to live upon.
 And just as the crowned monarch of another nation found it essen- tial to guard his regal rights with men at arms, with guards and musketeers, with navies and aripies, so also these propertied rights de- pend mainly upon the might to maintain themselves against those who would otherwise claim access, untramelled, to the means of ex- istence.
 It is true of course the Kings did not maintain their royalty by a di-