The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-27

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 Theoretically we may affect to trust in God, but in actual fact we trust in armies and nGvies. Theo- retically we may effect to believe in abstract justice, but in actual fact we realize that justice is the interest of the stronger.
 Where in the individual, it would be drowned upon to resort to vio1- ence, an aggregation of individuals presuming to speak for the rest do so with perfect self justification.
 Any way in this world what We see is not any willingness to accept the reasoning of the other fellow, but to force upon him the reason ing which we have observed opera tes to our own advantage.
 That is the cause of so much in- ternational friction, and it is why that the workers have suffered so many wrongs as a class.
 Obviously the theory of the capl- talists as to preparedness is a two edged blade. That 1t is requisite to be prepared to defend the interests of the powerful ones may not be intelligently deniad. But accepting this doctrine at it's face vaue- granting the premises as worth while where does it lead us in the matter of the conflict of the classes?
 That is the serious phase that these preparationists and anti-pre- parationists have been over looking all the time.
 If it is necessary for capital to prepare against the aggression of other national capital what of the necessity for labor to prepare against the persistent, constant, per petual aggression of capital in it's pursuit of profits against Labor.
 The capitalists don't teach the workers any great confidence in mo- rals or in ethical conventions. Traa- ties gre scraps of paper, internatnn' al law is adopted to the interest of the stronger.
 Have the capitalists litigating in courst against injured workers proved any less rapacious than oue national capital fighting that of an- other nation? Do they show any trust in anything but force and viol- ence?
 This is by all odds the most seri- ous aspect of preparedness. Do they intend that labor should better the instruction and like them prepare to say that might is right?
 Honestly one does not know where this world is heading in at if it accepts as truth the vile theory that might is right as it is now gen. erally doing, It the world is prostrate itself beneath a theory of infamy which says that might is the only means available to preserve our selves against individual, national or class rapacity, what is it opening the doors upon but red terror, and white hate?
 If justice and right and truth and reason and interest and morality are to be conditioned upon the strong right arm. upon the sword and the cannon, upon the dread naught and the submarine, in wha have we advanced from that evi age when the world was red 1T tooth and claw?
 Today geologists are digging III the fossil remains of the dreadful animals that once filled the worlc with horror and lust of blood. Xvi eyed, armored, armed with fierce horns and teeth and bloody claws these fierce things are now nt more. The jungles where the! roamed are the coal beds of, thu present day. Yet their concept o existence even as 1oathsome in stinct is identical with that whicl says that right and justice are no thing, but arms and force ar' everything.
 T Man in turn armed against tha foul condition. Because even th' Ihideous cave-man in his lair. prac ticed elementary principles of mu tual aid, succored where succou was needed, cared for; his weak an;