The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-05

 correspondents worked up a 'do- cument' purporting to be plans stg- gested in Europe for a settlement of the great strife across the At, 1antic.
 To quote from this dispatch "thc tentative idea to satisfy thus the nc tional ambitions of the European countries at war was broadly oui- 4hed as follows: Great Britain is to occupy New England, Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
 France is to get the French parts of eastern Canada and the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. Germany, is to occupy the states of New York, Pennsylya- mia. Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Ill. nois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Japan is to take the Pacific coast states Washington, Oregon and California. Russia will receive Alaska"
 To enable the nations to get a place in the sun the core pendent inrented the idea of an intention to jcstle Uncle Sam oc the map.
 It will be admitted that the idea has some rays of humor in its very impossibility, but at the same time it suggests considerations quite other than the correspondents in tended
 A financial expert has estimated that almost two billion worth oi American securities: industrial and financial, were held in Europe be- fore the war. This signified that European proprietorShip did actu- ally extend over enormous and vast interegts in the United States. For eign capital had enormous holdings in railroads, in mines, in factories, in land, throughout the American continent.
 Without a doubt the smart Alec who pcnncd the notion of such d basis for European peace had not taken stock of the fact that during peace, under the capitalist system of internationalising wealth such a distribution as he believed ridicui- ous had actually almost taken place
 So there is nothing very funny about the idea; tho funny part Is that such condition does actually take place while the people sloei in peace, and Americans among the working classes actually pile up pro- fits for the European owners and were, in many industries, the indus trial serf of those owners.
 It will be urged that without cou trol of the government such owner ship amounts to nothing. Il amounts to everything Througf the accredited agents or bankers O these owners, influence has tim, and time again been brought tc bear upon the legislatures and tn courts so that what they wanted has been done. t
 Revelations connected with th' munitions trust revealed that man, of those firms engaged in tho in dustry were foreign owned, ant where they were not directly con trolled had made themselves prac tically and indirectly subsidiary o foreign corporations.
 When the idea of floating loa occurred to the bclligerent nation the American financiers demande American securities. There wa was no doubt as to owner ship in the minds of tn clear-seeing American money mag mates, and they Knew what wa what.
 There is nothing so extraordinal lily visionary about the suppose treaty at all, for during peace has been partially accomplished.
 Economic control without an doubt gives political control in large measure and there is alway the possibility that a foreign pof Sical control may follow from plr.eponderating economic control { any country. Mexico before its re yolution was fine example of thi And there was no way gettin around 1t or disputing about it, Fo cign capital had actually taken po session of the country; of coHri