The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-16

ported conditions dwell upon the superficial results. The more ob- serving men, the keener and more analytical newspaper correspondents tell that it is a changed Germany, a changed France and completely changed Great Britain that now ex- ists.
 We quoted some time ago from an article in the British Catholic Times, formerly and completely re- actionary and ultramontane. That writer dwelt upon the developing social sense. But what he meant, but did not dare to say was the re- evolutionary sense.
 Bonar Law told tho House of Commons the othor day that the nation faced bankruptcy as result of the war; that it was only a mat ter of time whes tho country would reach the end of its bonding res ,ur- ces, but that after that other l to carry on the war to a succ assful conclusion. He meant confiscatiou of property and money. He refusel to deny it, and even tho supporters of Law. conservatives and tories, all of them did not deny that that time would come.
 History may be standing still 1n the United States. It is moving with seven loogued boots in Europe. America may be the land of peace 1 ful progress. But money makir s has kept it socially speaking adyanc. ing at no very alarming rate. The war i5 the clement that has stimu- lated progress in the European na- tions. The people are thinking new thoughts. As yet they may be dim, uncertain, illogical, incomplete, ne- buiar and uncontrolled. But they are such as to result in greptly vital and radically social changes. Our ideas as Labriola says, do not come from heaven, neither are they born within us. They come from our environment. But just the same the new thoughts are porpetually reacting on the environment and producing change. That is tho con- dition in Europe today. The mentality that machine pro. duction provokes within man is essentially a slow, logical and ruth | less one. The mentality produced by this war environment is an explo- sive, revolutionary but no less ruth less one.
 No wonder the nations are changed. No wonder Northclilf 3 has gloomy forebodings for the flu ture.
 Ana he is correct when he says that this condition will react upon the United States.
 The idea that any nation under our present social scheme can isolate itself and be independent of all others is wrong. It might have been true century ago, but it cannot be true today.
 Did this war leave America un- touched or unscathed? Didn't it tie up the American industries. send thousands of penniless men into bread lines? Didn't it starve and stress many and many hundred men? Didn't it enrich with artifl- cal activity thousands of munition makers? Didn't it send millions of wild profits beyond the dreams of millionaires into the coffers of Am erican proprietors? Hasn't it sent a president hystericaly rattling through the cities demanding arms and ships and men against some unknown terror? Hasn't it sent a panic through the administration and scared societies and leagues and associations into a chatter of bahel for peace or war or preparedness or defense?
 Surely is Northcliffc right when he says that the changed conditions as a result of the war will affect America also. It couldn't be other wise Withal the rant of national ism that now and then finds ct'ulli- ent space in the papers, the civiliza- tion that we live under, is interna- tional.
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