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

No one can accuse such man as Northcliffe as being an alarmist. Lord Northcliffe has been dyed in the wool British conservative, who himself admitted that he felt the late. J. P. Morgan was unduly alarm ed at the growth Of socialist ideas.
 Yet he is a far-seeing man. That he is an able man beyond such ability as is demonstrated in the British peerage, is unquestionable. Northcliffe was not always a peer. He began his career with the Geo Ncwnes Go. of London as hack writer on Tit Bits and other of that class of periodicals. He came to the conclusion that he knew more than he was paid to know, and started i'll business for himself. Quite unlike many who do so, ho succeeded with a little two by four sheet called Answers, modelled along the same line as Tit Bits but which attained a great popularity, and moro inn pOrtant yet made barrels of money for Harmsworth. Harmsworth branched out, bought the Daily Mail and other papers and for able boost ing of the conservative party was made when he reached the multi million pound sterling class, lord
 Therefore the mans observing ability and acumen is hardly opcn to question. for he succeeded in q business where some intelligence and a modicum of brains ct toast are essentials.
 Now this great man-because O. his millions end journalistic pro- prietorghip-writes occasional let ters to American papcrGHo himself has more closely modelled the Brit ish daily alorg the lines of the Am erican daily than any other man in Great Britain. He has an inclina- tion to that kind of iornGlism which those who are too slow to follow it's nervous and energetic rapidlty of publication, called yellow journal ism.
 His letters are interesting and in structive.
 Thus in recent communication to an American journal he writes with grim foreboding of the future when millions of soldiers who have gone through hell for their country win come back and demand better working conditio@, g. oT their sacrifice. Inoy will not put mp with any nonsense, North cliffc nonsense among the rest.
 He isn't inspiring for the Amer jean plutocrat any moro than he is for the European aristocrat:
 This situation" he says, 'i5 bound to have an effect on your country where the differonecc be- tween the rich and the poor is es great if not greater than it has been with us. l have been through your slums in Now York and Chicago and know the conditions.
 In addition, there is the subtle influence of the war. For months your people have been reading about the spilling of blood. The constant diet of wGr is sure to bring about an internal upheaval. The American revolutionary war wGs the precursor of tho French rovolu- ton.
 That's written by a very observ- ing man. It is not likely that he will receive attention from the Am erican capitalists to whom it is mainly and as warning addressed. The American capitalist Is too busy making money to heed what he says. Yet it is certain that tho war will result in a world of change. That would be true even if the cer- aainty of change was not the law of life.
 We believe that it is utterly inn possible for condition such as is the war to exist for such prolong- ed period, changing the lives ana thoughts of men and women so com pletely, without a permanent change resulting therefrom.
 Over in Europe the entire social environment is changed. The men have changed with that environ ment, and tho thoughts of men. Only shallow observers who have re-