The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-28

not in itself nor in it's editorial columns, but in it's news. This fact is being gentrally noted by the peo- pie, although it wns long ago ob- served by those who controlled the great papers in the United States. Readers form their opinion on cur rent events as they absorb the news published concerning them, and Ill the light of their knowledge or othrwise of those events, they crit,- cize policies and acts rclcting to them. It is not possible, for a purely propaganda paper to effect such a. control of tho minds of the people as the average newspaper, for the very simple reason that tho news paper directs its educational force through it's ncws columns, almost without observation, while the pro- paganda paper arouses criticism as if by intention.
 Almost in the same wcy, ono re- gards the editorial policy of any paper; sometimes with approval and sometimes with considerable and ar. gumentative opposition on the mat ter discussed therein,
 About President Wilson's Mexican policy those who have powerful pro- perty interests in Mexico while they
 An effect their ends through editorials condemning Wilson. They may do that; but they find that it only acts slowly and not with very certaie re- suits in any event
 But when they publish news af- fecting to be correct, and in line with their arguments they arc much more powerfully and much more quickly as well as much more subt- Iy, effecting their ends.
 There is no doubt for example that many influential propertied in- terests in Mexico long for interyen- tion. They feel that by taking away the government from Mexico they would be safer in their mines and haciendas than under the uncertain regime of Mexican president. It is immaterisl how they acquired these properties: now that they have them they want to exploit them and for this purpose above all things stable government, following an American conquest of Mexico, is the ideal they have set themselves to achieve.
 They have without 8 doubt aided in promoting the disorders in Me- ico and they supplied this leader and that with support for that purpose. But they have done more than this, they have actually so effectively per yerted all Mexican news that noWa- days the people have been led tD believe that the wrongs which have occurred are solely wrongs perpe- trated upon the American interests and not upon the Mexicans. And since Wilson has taken a hand in chasing down Villa, they have struggled through means of the news service to develop a demand for Mexican war which would drive the United States into war of conquest and then the pacifica- tion of Mexico. All this shows that the real medium of a newspapers power is through the news columns and not through the editorial columns.
 Bearing this fact in mind, We discover what odds the labor press is up against in endcavoring to do justice to labor. Capitalists control practically every avenue of the cir culation as we'll as the collection of news. We seldom or never hear the workers side of tho question be- cause the great news gathering agen- cies take care that the people shall do no such thing. When tho hear ings of the Industrial Relations. Con- mission were on, the great papers ignored any of the vital facts of the case that were uncovered. But when John D. Rockefeller or any his hcachmen made what was consider ed a point before Chairman Walsh and his commission. every paper made that a front page story.
 When Rockefeller wont on his now famous trip through the coal fields of southern Colorado, the smallest detail which might magnify