The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-10

bends for it's existence in the profit making. The reason of an industry is the dividends that come there from.
 To urge to workingmen that the compulsory military service for their country is highly noble and worthy and good, is all very we'll But when you come to tell business men that a similar sacrifice of profit is- noble and good and great they laugh at you. They regard you as crazy It's all right that the gov ernment seize the person who has nothing to sell but his labor, but i. | is horse of another color when you pretend to measure business with the same yard stick.
 There always has been 3 due de- ference shown the business Inter- ests. The law provides monetary | fine as punishment so that the blow will fall softly upon those who have lots of money. The man who has millions pays easily enough fine of thirty dollars while the man who 1 has nothing, fined a similar amount is forced to starve to raise it. The government provides in many states property qualifications for voters 80 that the men of standing and pro minence will have the more inn portant direction in the affairs of the nation.
 1 It is to be remembered that all this privilege has been due to the | fact that the men of standing were profit makers. They occupied their positions because in directing their business they accumulated wealth through their profits. They flil up the positions of prominence in gov ernment in social and in political affairs. They are on the committees off the entertainment of distinguish l cd visitors because they themselves are disting uished. They head the list of those who will take part iii any prominent function. They are the men who speak at banquets, who address on national celebra- tions, or suggest the wisest course for cites town counties and states | They are honored not by reason of any particular ability, but ly reason of the fact that they ine".'- nate wealth, that they represent So much profit skilfully acquired or otherwise
 That's reasonable enough. That is ,e .ause the source of all act,y
 ity, the incentive to all enterprise, the reason for all industry, com merce and business is profits.
 Profits therefore has a political social and moral status of it's own. It writes it's own policies in ethics, politics and social activities. What is all right for the profiteer is all wrong for the employee. What is an excellent stroke of business would land men among the work ing classes in the penitentiary. It has been we'll said that the man who steals loaf of bread goes to
 jail and the man who swipes rail- road goes to the senate. The me thods of some of our great financial
 houses are identical with the methods of the knight of tho jimmy and the mask The difference is in degree and not in kind.
 Therefore it is when considering the political actions of an armol plate manufactures and that of the
 working stiff, what is all right for
 one is all wrong for the other.
 The armor platter demands his pro. lifts. He demands his profits even ii
 he does. as he has done, sell defec Give material to the government
 The sale is justifiable because of the
 profit therein The ethical motto o'
 modern business enterprise is tha lprofit justifies the means. The other day when they tried tt : introduce reforms in the administra
 tion and management of the coa mining industry of Kansas, the coa barons protested that to do so woult mean to ruin their business for tn { cost of installing such apparatus would mean that they could mak' Inc profits. They admitted that tn mines were dangerous, that the. were notoriously unsafe. that man: