The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-25

| of the principles of state capitalism or state socialism.
 It unquestionably owes it's exist ence to the unity of action which the German nation displays, and the collective action wherein the indi- vidual will is completely suppressed !; for the attainment of tho imperial ends.
 And supporters of this condition urge that because German industries have boen conducted in manner wherein the collective weal even ot the workers as potential fighters in the great national militeristic ma | chine had to be considered, the na- tional benefit in the national effici- ency is obvious. Out of the entire war, we can hardly select a more difficult question than arises from the different social virtues which obtain from such governmental col lectivism and national individual ism.
 Moreover both represent condi- l tions of thought which are in them selves to one another directly anta- gonistic and which must finolly fight it out in the scheme of things.
 The next step from state social ism is an industrial democracy but whether it will be ordered along the lines of individual independence or collective control is a question which cannot very we'll be off hand - determined.
 The one theory of government is represented by Jefferson's succinct phrase that that government is the best which governs the least, and the other is that which holds that the best government is that which governs everything.
 lndividualism as represented by the former viewpoint is rampant in England and America There has been an entire absence of anything like state control of any, of tho so- cial activities except where such was absolutely essential. Yet in both countries thct viewpoint is changing. In America now there ere thoGe who advocate every form of activity being controlled by gov ernmnt from the railroads and tele- phones to what we eat and what we drink More than one prominent politician wants railroads regulated and prohibition of intoxicating li- quor is general in large section of the union.
 Old age pensions, child labor ie- gislation, minimum wage laws, enl- ployers liability and state insurance, mothers insurance, unemployment 1 insurance, anti-smoking ordinances, anti-treating ordinances, and a vorioty of other subjects show that government is getting it's work in legislatively even in America on al most every human endeavor and al most every human activity.
 And all of these things are op- posed by class of people who de- clare that the more laws only mean 1 the more law breaking; that the more government concerns itself with industry the more the people become corrupted and the more they also become enslaved.
 In England such an entry on the part of government to control and legislate on matters heretofore un- heard of, was resisted with the cry of Spencer against the Coming Slavery.
 It is this war that has brought things to head. In the German government ownership of railroads strict factory inspection, unen- ployment insurance. municipal lodging. houses, government control of steamships, railroads and facto- ries, is aso witnessed by expert so- biologists the German supremacy as contrasted with other nations inetil- ciency.
 With the government army system rigidly removed from individual will and vested in the state by compui- sorry service we see this system ill striking contrast to the British and American system of voluntary sen- listment No army man. has any doubt as to the efficiency of the latter { system, although. many ex-