The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-16

mony IS Startllng, but Tn view Of what has been said easily intellig- ible
 They swore that the ship was overloaded and that beams were sawed away in order to make more cargo room.
 There is boom in shipping all over the coast, the like of which has never before been seen. Shipowncrs are making profits that few years ago would have been considered un- thinkable. Rates have gone up 100 per cent in many cases and the pro- fits gre fabulous. The shipping in- dustry is functioning in perfection according to the conception at the back of all modern business enter prise For profits everything there fore is sacrificed. Safety first is a forgotten slogan; the more cargo carried, the huger the chunk of pro- fits, therefore the protection of the
 
 secondary consideration. The risk is necessary that the owners may real ize the gigantic profits possible in the transportation industry. Mouth watering profits being accessible, they stop at nothing and the Roanoke puts to sea a deltn trap with the fate of most of those sail. DTS sealed so that employers may have the possibility of more anu Elore profits.
 It's always so. Any time great lrohts and human life stand in the way of one another, human life has to go The only hope for human life receiving any consideration what ever is when human life can affect the profits of the enterprise if it is neglected.
 But that's hardly possible in an abnormal conditions such as obtains in the shipping industry at the pre- sent time. The chance of a life time for ship owners is to hand; blocking the way are considerations of safety for human life on board. What is the natural consequences? Why that safety is quite forgotten and the employer takes the chance, risking the lives or tho seamen, INln ic1y ct noly nf lifeless chips that he may win a mighty stake.
 There's no sentiment under capi- talism. Once a week they provide themselves with official attention to the affairs of another world and in- dulge with pleasure in speculative considerations as to the moral phase of human life. But that cuts no sort of figure in the real affairs of exist ence. It's all well enough when profits are forthcoming and things are prosperous but when any moral or ethical considerations stand in the way of profits, those as well as all other human notions have to be forgotten. Business is business Business is business, however, only just as long as the profits are forth coming and it is one of the boasls of official charity these days that they have put it on paying basis. And when men say that look out. They mean that they have put in on paying basis, that there is not something coming from nothing, that someone is going unpaid, that it has changed wholly it's social function to fill commerce. al one, that not wrongs. not injus- ticos not miseries are being sootheo in proportion to the social necessity for these things, but that palliatives are being administered in an efficient and profitable manner wholly re- gardless of the supposed real aim of such functions.
 The Roanoke affair is scandalous. But it is not an isolated case. It is only one fact separated from million similar facts showing how the capitalist system, the system upon profit by means of hu- man exploitation, stops at nothing to fulfil it's proper and intended function: to give those who have more. and take from those who have not, their lives and happiness.