The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-29

end until the economic system and the inrer-Tela;ion of nations such al economy.
 As long as enc man, one nation or an alliance of nations expects to get the letter of the other feI- low, to profit where he has Iro- fitted, or to take the product where he has labored, peace is only fairy dream. There will be no peace Lat wars latent or active.
 . That society which makes one set of nen be il a class or a nation, work for profit of another set ot men be they class or another race of people. is in state of unstable equilibrium, requiring force to maintain the status quo. Progress of any kind means that accompany ing the forward movement will be endless friction when the equilibri- um is disturbed such movement, and force is utilized to maintain it.
 Preparation for peace then is an unthinkable proposition which does not involve also the abolition of the present economic system, and lhe destruction of the unstable equiIl brium that it establishes with the substitution of a stable social equi- librium upon the only possible ba- sis: industrial democracy, equality and international brotherhood Howerth planes the kind of edu- cation now practiced for the fact that it has not promoted peace.
 "The failure ought not to be charged to education itself, he says but to the kind of education that has prevailed and to the dissemina- tion of erroneous ideas, concerning the nature and the results of war false conceptions of national honor and patriotism, and the pernicious idea that the best way to prevent war is to constantly think about it and prepare for it, an idea contra dicted by all we know of human psychology with respect to the rela- tion of thought to action The true nature of WET unlike it's causes is not obscure. It is plainly revealed by our knowledge of biolo- gical and social evolution. Such knowledge ought to lead to recogni- tion of the distinction between the 1 blind social evolution of nature, ef- fected partly by war, and possible ordered social evolution achieved | by human foresight. But the study of evolution, the one study capable of rendering this great service, has been discouraged, sometimes for- bidden in our schools and colleges on the grounds of it's being athels- tic; hence the superstition of nature worship that prevails today. As Spencer says: "It is true that much social evolution is achieved without any intention on the part of citizens to achieve it, and even without the consciousness that they are achiev- ing it."
 But such evolution is uncertain. slow, wasteful and to no end save the adjustment of the social organ ism to it's environment. It does not result in the survival of the best, but the Attest, and sometimes the fittest is ethically the worst. It's chief method being competition or war, both being essentially the same.
 Nevertheless, no matter what these wise thinkers say about war the popular imagination is always at the disposal of the men and the politicians who advance pleas for preparation for any purpose what soever. Not at any time will the truth by such be advanced, be- cause 1t is the truth, that the basis of all war is economic. That the cause of war is in the economic. system; that. war literally exists 4 in the present system of industry even when peace as we call it obtains; there is, the same social s,atagonism the same desperate struggle, the