The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-09

oOCldI JuSllCe. It CeIldlHly VIII re- tard it. What hastens the improve ment in conditions for labor is per petual agitation and economic dis content. The strife that Hughes con demns and which he without doubt fears for it's social consequences is the main hope of Labor. Economic discontent is the symptom which manifests the disease within the body polite. It is the revolt of th2 system against the poison of indus trial injustice, and without it, the world would degenerate to a condi- tion of social gangrene or the GIy rot of social decay.
 It is manifest in every age that those who agitated were those who led to progress. The conservatives and the followers of laisses faire; the reactionists or the stand pats were those who believed that the world had reached the ultima thule of advancement, and because they were free, saw freedom everywhere because they were well off and vel. favored saw prosperity and good fortune and happiness everywhere.
 The idea of stand patism in America today would be r2pugnant to any acute seuse of jus ii 'e.> That that sense is not enter talhud is due to ignorance oe Condi- tions, of the social facts, and the ac- tual effects of actual causes are ignored or forgotten and unappreci- ated.
 And it would be very difficult to conceive a more nauseating concept of things than that the slaves be better tended so that a master class may reap millions from their busi- ness enterprise and industrial eX- pansion.
 It is the same idea of feeding up the stall fed steer that it may get a better price for it's owner in the cattle market or of treating the chattel slave with some regard for human decency so that he will pick little more cotton or plough a few more acres than if he was lash ed from morn until night. The workers idea of their status can have no possible thing in common with the Hughes idea. The work CTS status must be founded upon the status written long ago as fun damental. the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness-not as favor from some magnate con trolling business enterprise and making way for industrial expan- sion, but as an idividual, undeni- able right: right to be maintained at all costs even at the costs of re- rebellion against the government or the power that provides con- trary concept of human justice and human liberty. This is American ism. It is the Americanism that is embodied in the Declaration of In dependence, and remarkably enough that document did not consider it of importance to provide that human rights to life, liberty and happiness were worthy because of other per sons business enterprise or indus trial expansion being otherwise jeo- pardized, but. because it was an in ate right upon the part of the indi- vidual citizen.
 The best that the workers get from capitalist parties is such an emasculate justice as is championed for the stabilization of society by Justice Hughes. The end is stabi- lization, not anything else but me- chanical stability wherein industrial activities can still be pursued and millions reaped by those who own, from the toll of those who do not.
 But stabilization itself is no very worthy idea. China has been the embodiment of stabilization. There peaceful conditions reigned. and the established order prevailed for thousands of years. Reaction or stand patism was materialized fact there, and throughout the entire world there was no such reaction ary, ignorant and hapless nation.
 The great periods of nations history were usually the periods when stabilization was smashed to pieces in an effort to prevent the