The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-22

today When in 1878 before the treaty of San Stefano, Great Britain saw Russia threaten its commercial dominance in Asia through the con- quest of Asia Minor, through suZer- ainty in the Balkans, and above all through control of Constantinople and the Dardanelles, Great Britain fought hard to establish a barrier against the Slavic movement. In do- ing so, the barriers which racially had existed against the Germanic movement were in turn removed. Bismark was then revolving plans for the expansion of the German Empire plans warranted by the rap idly developing efficiency and thoroughness of the great people over whom he was something more than the Rulers adviser.
 Gladstone was an opportunist him. self but as an opportunist he lacked the vision of Beaconsfeid. That he foresaw that the Pan-Germanic in fiuence in the Balkans and felt that the movement which crystalizea in the construction Of the Bagdad railroad would be direr and more threatening than the Pan-Slavic movement, is to credit him with an ability to foresee things that he cer- tainly never could be entitled to. It is fact however that Gladstone never realized the dangers that the conservatives pretended to see i'll the Bear that walks like man.
 Now things have changed Rus sia is no longer regarded as men ace. Fer the past ten years, British capital has been entering Russia at an enormous rate. Tsere has been a complete understanding about the "spheres of influence. On the other hand a de luxe express runs twice a week through Germany to Constanza on the Black Sea, daily express runs to Constantinople from Hamburg, and away across the Turkish territory the German loco motives waken the echoes among ruined splendors of Asia Minor driving towards India and always expanding the enormous trade ot Germany. l,
 The Russian legions contain no danger, the German commercial travellers, polyglottist, efficient, per suasive and extraordinarily educated and intelligent, struck at the roots of the insular commercialism ot Great Britain.
 To nation of shop keepers this is like an assault upon the cash re- gisters of the nation, and in all res poets Germany was recognized for years and without any questioning as the real foe of English trade which is the empire.
 Accordingly the entire policies that elicited such ringing cheers al that London banquet on the night of July 27, 1878, are regarded as the very worst that ever misguided a so-called statesmen, and the sons Of the very men who cheered ana laughed at the bitter excoriation of Gladstone would themselves be now the first to admit that the Berlin was from the British point of view, an insane" conven- ton.
 The pursuit of profits, the main spring of all imperialism, knows no such thing as consistency. It will deyiate from the most cherished principles and the most exalted codes if So it be that the cent per cent is threatened in the least de- gree. It is not anywhere or at any time a question of national honor, integrity, national morality, it is a question of business expedi enoy, first, last and all the time. The patriotism of the nations under capitalism has feet of clay however its head may be glittering as fine gold and blinding in it's excess oi light.
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