The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-01

The present tide in the affairs of nations possesses the saving beauty of revealing for us with unWonteu clarity as well as unwonted force the manifold excellences of capital. ism. Here is, for example, the United States. Prior to the war the melancholy gloom of the brok- CTS was sight to see. They saw nothing but depression ahead, and even the alchemy of a democratic tariff did not line the dark clouds with a hell of a lot of silver. Nor were the brokers the only ones who worried. In almost every state, at least during the preceding winter, bread lines and soup houses enter tained good many intelligent" and honest" workingmen. They sought surcease of their hunger with a cup of free coffee and SIT cease for their exposure to the ele- ments by a dime or a nickle flop in some vermin ridden dump. Millions, literally millions, were recipients or charity and things were without a ray of sunshine. That was during the piping times of peace before the newspapers served Teuton or an Allied victory hot for breakfast every weekday morning. It was 5 dlightful state of affairs to witness a country at peace and many men on the bum while the chain gangs in the cities entertained a number of involuntary guests and the latter cleared the vacant lots and cleaned the streets. Well said the orator, Peace hath her victories as well as war.
 So!!
 Then came the war. Then came with the war, orders for murderous instruments pouring into the land of the free and home of brave. Orders for shells, for shrapnel, for machine guns, for cannon of all con ditions and degree, for submarines, for anything and everything would assist in the game of killing.
 And then under this glorious sy- stem, those who had stood in bread lines, when was no war, when was no suffering, when was no misery, when was no heart break, when were no brutal atrocities, when was no fiendish killing, when was none of the damnable and hellish things that make men see and feel red with the lust of murders horror, stood in the breadline no longer, but went to work and got good pay and earned their fill to eat and drink and wear. There was no more chain gang In theirs, nor were they the buffeted of every Dogberry and the parked at of every dog in office. They be- came pillars of the national indus try, contributing to the millions that rolled into their masters coff- CTS and everyone nudges everyone else at the good times while the democrats with party loyalty claim it as their very own.
 There are more men eating good dinners, working short well paid days at the present time in America because shudderful things are be- ing done today in Europe, than they have ever enjoyed before, and that is for the sole reason that man. kind tolerates a system of society whose only marked characteristic is it's anti-social iniquity.
 There's not a man but sees that feel they ever so fortunate in their great profits.
 When it takes a world war to bring the magic of industrial pros perity to country, what can be thought of such an economy? Yet that is exactly the condition today The more is destroyed, wasted and consumed the better and livelier will be the times-the more mel will be employed and the greater the mad rush for the luscious fruit of commerce.: profits. The rush fo- the spells of human industry chaotic, selfish, purposeless, cruel that is capitalism, reeking with human blood and black with the char of destruction.