The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-30

takes no stock of the common good or the common veal It is individ. ualsm running riot and as Huxley long ago pointed out, the ultimate of individualism is anarchy.
 The very teaching of capitalism involves the cardinal principle of anarchy that might is right; that no rights have any power to sway, con- trol, govern, direct, or subordinate the exploitation of the masses by the individual; that such exploita- tion is to be protected in it's ac- tivities and it it's functions by might, and that might is to protect u against the collective masses come what may.
 And like the anarchy that it is, it involves itself in contradiction. If might is right and the strong arm and ;he sword and the rife and the cannon are to be the final arbitars between the nations, and the great CT the power is to be the greater security, regardless of right CT wrong, then the world places itsef on record tearing all ethical prin- ciples to shreds, right into tatters, la0d justice is to be scattered IS dust betore the breezes.
 Moreover, if this doctrine is 70 otta.n sway that it is essential to trust in arms and potential violence in the settlement of differences-if the power of the nation is to be it's asset in negotiations which will win the best terms, there is no deny ing the logic of it's application to the class struggle. If preparedness is to be used by the masters in their commercial struggle for national and international supremacy in the world markets, the same reasoning applies to the struggle between the masses and the classes and instead of an effort to peaceably adjust the differences between workers and employers, by the strike, by the ap- plication of the principles of right and wrong, it behoves the workers to prepare so that their might Will be actually the greater than that oi employers, and they can stand over the latter in their differences, me- nacing power to compel respect where otherwise they would fail, so that the slaves may enslave the masters.
 If the workers strong in the aI- guments of the preparationists were to arm, to secure posses sion of munitions, of can no and machine guns,, to erect armories, to maintain standing army of gigantic propor- tions, to levy heavy per capita tax to maintain this army and these ar maments at a high state of efflci- ency, to educate their children in the use of arms, in military tactics and make no attempt to consider the ethical side of life, and were all these things to be done under the plea of defense against war by the capitalists, does any person think that the capitalists would re- gard that with any sincerity, with any sense of security; with anything but misgiving, and would they not most certainly believe that these preparations were sure to lead to a class war, and would be the very surest way of providing the nation with civil turmoil?
 There's not a person living but knows that is the case. There's not pers on living but knows were tho workers to arm and prepare along class lines and using the same fall acious arguments that are used by the modern .preparationists, that they would not be distrusted through the length and breadth of the land. You couldn't fool the capitalists az the capitalists are foo,ing the workers with their i'm possible rreparationist program.
 Every single fact in our existence aud in humen history goes to show that the ration that prepared for war even when pretending to pre- pare for peace got all the war that she was looking for. The cry "Auz Armes" in France ended in the coll apse on St. Helena after the coun' | try had been decimated, as the cry a Berlin ended in the debacle oi