The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-10

If one considers the general eCo- homie make up of the Democratic Party, it is not impossible to under stand how tho rather ambitious pro yarationiGt program outlined by l resident Wilson causes a split
 The democrats like the republi- cans are recruited from widely se- parated interest. While their coun- cils may be enriched. literally as well as fguratively, by the Belmonts and the Ryans, nevertheless there is another class largely represented which has very little in common with these well fed porkers at the economic trough There is the smaller business men, tho impecu- nious professional man, the worker with future" and others with million dollar heads on two cent bodies, struggling to keep afloat in the struggle for existence.
 The bane of their lives is the tri- bute better organized monopoly in industry and in finance demands for permission to avoid the many crowded ranks of the toiling mas ses.
 Anything that tends to keep up taxation is to them a night mare, just as high railroad rates and high
 
 the smaller business men and little independent out rampaging in the wake of Roosevelt through the for ests of insurgency.
 The preparationist schemes for. shadowed by Wilson under the drive of European obsession involves the certainty of enormous expendi- lures of money. You cannot build battleships on hot air, nor blow in 12 inch shells without large public contributions
 1t is all very we'll to be prepared, but taxes are hell as well as war, and if you please the little business man will have none of 1t.
 The big business man is well pre-, pared. The taxation which he is forced to give up will be merely a detail and he will give it with pa triotism and benevolence.
 If he wanted to, John D. Rocke feller could support the American navy for whole year. construct ths battleships demanded by the ambi- tious program of the Navy Leaguers, and still not be broke. The Du Pont De Nemours Company would be able to supply three years pow der to the Americas goverrmen, gratis and still be Q flourishing mo nopoly.
 Of course all of these are in q wholly different position to the lit tie fellow that has pioneer mill in the jungle and is trying to rise and is swatted into his subordinate position by bank rates and by illi- beral competition from a trust When he has to face huge taxes ana huge rents and huge prices for raw material, when his product is showed on the market at rates which demand more frequenting of banks for loans and more signing of notes and adding of interest due, when he is up against organized op- position which is indestructible, na turally he is not willing to aid any policy, no matter what, which means the complete and utter ruin of his business.
 Besides, the big capitalists arc playing against him the safest of safe games. Their money is in- vested largely in the railroads which will move military supplies, man. euvring troops, guns, and material from camp to camp; they own th5 munitions factories and the arse nals, they make money in guns and in gun carriages, in aeroplanes and autos, in armor plate and machinery and why should they worry? Even if they are taxed on the one side 10 help to pay these preparation schemes, at any rate 1t is taking it out of one pocket to shove it, with profit, rent and interest added, into the other They are not likely to object. But the plain impecunious professional man, the equally plain and equally impecuious business man whose existence in business is merely to avoid the proletariaa scramble for jobs in the labor mar ket and whose democracy is ar