The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-02

1 That it was unthinkable and would cause a complete collapse of the ca pitalist system.
 But Bebel was a poor prophet. The war is not only possible, but &C., l tualIy under it, nations prosper.
 1 Never at any time in the history of the nations has there been such l industrial activity and isn't that prosperity? Isn't that what is poli- tically considered to be prosperity. l Never were there so many million aires being made, and never before was there such tendency for wealth to centralize. Furthermore ] instead of there being any tendency i for the system to collapse, the na- ] tions now at war are making war normal condition. They have figured out ways and means to meet the human demand, the intuition de- mand, the food demand, and the l financial demand and they are meet | HE lilthl. VI iiCA' OA SHNA->1O' l their war so systematically now i that the Central Powers and the En- tente Powers can meet the require ments of the war in all these lines, l so that war and not peace can be made indefinitely the life condition and the normal state of the nation.
 That has been made by taking women and making them laborers, by taking the waste products and utilizing them, by eliminating any thing and everything, except profit making, which might interfere with war. And just as peace made pro- fiteering its hand maid, so have those who direct the war immediately or by proxy, made profiteering the hand maid of war. To talk there fore of an ethical system under war is beside the question.
 War is just as much entitled to considerations of privilege as peace. When in the course of mining ope- rations a terrific disaster occurs snuffing out. the lives of hundreds, disasters due to the greed of operat- ors and the failure to install safety appliances, society calls such a re- grettable accident inseperable from the successful prosecution of indus trial enterprise.
 There are some protests. But they are few and far between. oiml- larly when thousands are thrown out of work and hundreds of thou sands suffer cold, starvation and ex- posture by reason of unemployment, society passes off this condition as inevitable and urges Charity as hay ing a fine field to work in. Few be- gin to stand on their hind legs to denounce the frightfulness of capi- talism that seals up hundreds in Cherry mine to save the unmined coal. none see the frightfulness of Triangle disaster where hundreds Of girls are locked in to their work and are offered a burned offering to greed. None preceive the frightful- ness of oppressive landlordism in the slum that herds vice, crime and disease at an exhorbitant rent in wretched foul-smelling warrens. The frightfulness of peace that lines up the unemployed for chunk or , bread, that drives the desperate women to shame, that kills babies by the score, that casts upon the foetid breezes of congested existence millions of disease germs-these things are never commented upon!
 We'll, why should Peace have any more privileged consideration than War. War is now the normal state all over the world and we might as well begin to recognize the fact that these little atrocities termed fright fulness by the atrocitied, are merely phases of that christian profit-mak- ing fellowship is exemplified in the sacrifice of a worker, man, woman or child, on the altar of profit pro- duction. Profit production under war has great obstacles to overcome. During peace it has it's path made easy. During both it smears its trail