The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-10

ne may nave to sacrifice his life tC perpctuate the country he inherits?' Perkins abuses President Wilson
 and the politicians generally. Pork
 barrellism is the greatest and most
 unforgivable of crimes, and the
 whole country because of these things all shot to pieces.
 Perkins is the head of the
 Harvester Trust. The Harvester trust in it's binder twine factories in New York state worked women
 all hours of the day at labor would try the strength of the strongest
 men. Before the Empire state pas.
 sed it's nine hour day for factory
 women, they worked ten and twelve
 hours a day in the most unwhole.
 some spinning in tho world. Per. kins is he'd of the Harvester Trust and because he wc3 when he was going the country round as an up. ! lifting progressive, a. New York ca
 pitalist paper depicted in a terrific
 cartoon actual conditions in the twina factories of the state. Whal
 does it profit that some few make
 millions which their sons inherit, ii
 industrial conditions are all to the
 fit if women work in factories and
 have neither time nor money 10 give
 attention to their families? He 'e's
 some preparedness that Perkins
 never mentioned. Perkins spoke
 as a business man to whom profit getting and proft-keeping was the
 be-all and the end-all of this strug- gle to live.
 And that's the ideal before all these capitalist statesmen whether they are Perkins or Roosevelts.
 Nothing in all the history of the country has been more outrageous than the early fanatical outcry against the Pacificism of Wilson. Perkins among the rest sneers at the President. Washington seems to be operating on the principle that the typewriter is mightier than tee shrapnel, and we have in the White House a man who is not too proud to use it."
 Nothing is clearer from these persistent attacks and denunciations than that the men who represent Big Business whether stand pat or progressive would without a mo- ment's hesitation plunge this coun- try into war for the sake of their dirty dollars.
 Perkins insists that it is pre- paredness against aggression that he seeks; but this sheer at the type writer's might over that of shrap- nel shows that he is more than con- vinced that shrapnel would be emil nently desirable.
 It is high time that people real ize what is the desideratum that is held up before the country as worth fighting for by the Perkinses It is not more freedom or greater liberty: it is not the increased wet fare of all classes. It is not th3 of more wholesome conditions, better lives, in- creased education and more leisure. It is not to tighten the load of la- DOT one iota; it is not to assure every person comfort and sufficI- sncy and wholesome work. It is u make the Big Business of the Ua. ted States the Biggest in the world. To establish a super-organization which with great army and q great navy and a greet domestic preparedness will be invincible al lome and abroad, will dominate the lomestic and foreign situation ana he principles embodied in the De- laration of Independence will be as all moth-eaten ana ime-bitten formulas ought to De, " clearing houses rules and bank ng regulations. And when you ome down to cases what difference will it be to the masses of tho peo- ,le if their destinies gre dominated ,y a few industrial aboolutists or blueblooded bunch of political ab- olutists?
 The Industrial Worker believes | hat in spite of everything. the era o which Perkins is looking forward 8 coming. An industrial feudalism | s almost, if not actually, here. The