The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-28

Workingmen must feel some sa tisfGction over the fact that at lecst they are not likely to be responsible for any war that may break out anywhere. They are not likely to be found on armed or unarmed lir. CTS, and the loss of their l;vos is not at all likely to provoke the St :te Department into sending notes to various belligeronts. Their ships will not be seized on the High Seas and detained by the British, nor is such a seizure of workingmenis s ships ct all likely to occasion re. opening of thct somewhat content ous question of the freedsm of the seas.
 They are not likely toebo ac- cusod of fragrant breaches of neu- trality because they export munitions or subscribe to billion dollor fund; nor are they at all likely to become the subject matters of diplo- matic conversations relative to their ill treatment at tke hard of var ious officials in the bolligeront na- tions.
 In return for this mighty privi- lcge they are however called upon to accept [ theoretical share ir ''our ships" "our export''', eur over sea tr2de" end when thct is nc naced, threatened or injured to rise as one man to wipe out tho in suit.
 That's the flattoring position of the workers. Without property at stake without money involved. they are privileged to hold a sentimental in- tercst in the other fellows property and the other fellows money. ano to fight and die for it just the same.
 This theory iG called preparedness and that condition is cGllcd patriot neither judicious nor prudent to expose things as they are. f.
 We have had the pleasure from time to time of reading Delligerenu papers and like many another scan ned with deep interest the portraits on somewhat melancholy page en- titled Dead on the Field oi Honor"
 They were most of them, young. fine looking, up-standng cleanly looking mer. They were Ill of them officers and all he'd ro@itions be, fore the wor Of some standing ia society"
 But then this was no ordinary common or garden death Est. The vast majority who perished upon the battlefield were hoaored with no such publicity. Unwept, unhOnored and unsung, they lay siGo by side in some unmarked excavation whore they fell with their friends the enemy, united in the unwarring stiffness that marks the absence Of tho Gpark of life.
 They wore these who pushed for ward the lines or withstood the foes effort to do so; they were men who had neither fortune, ncr social standing, nor friends in high places They were tEe real fighters who bore the brunt of an att2ck and swept the lines forward in over whelming and fea 'lo9s assaults. But because of their humble position no record is made of their ending, and they are rewarded with no space in that dread portrait page whicn gives wroathe and announces dsath at the same t;mo.
 And these are tho same people who cause no war They had no cause to feel hurt at tho activities of the foe and the men they foughL with like themseves had ncne either But without property they were still useful to defend property and with out monoy they were useful to make and protect money. And it is upon them that preparedness reats. They | are the, patriots.
 es5 It's a fearful and it's wonderful thing, an of it m
 ---7------ A-- N ]. One of the most prominent busi- nAss men of St. Louis. connected