The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-01

CT to follow suit, has also made an effort to adjust itself to the econo- mic requirements.
 The consolidation of the trusts ill | the industry meant the centraliza- ton of the real governing forces in l that industrial society. This has been going on for some time, but it is still far from complete.
 In any event the life of the na- tion is now within the industries not within states or within cities. Because the political world is so far removed from the actual world, we have the professional politician. The majority of congressman, senators and representatives are professional politicians. .They have no conception of the industrial eco- nomy. They only hearken to the influences that are likely to give or take away votes. Most of them are lawyers who have no clients or who expect lnIOuSu lHSll pOiltiShi |" WI o to use the Congress as a stepping stone to the bench. They are for the most part hopelessly ignorant men, in the sense that what they do know is as useless to them as knowledge of breeding hogs is of use to the sailor. Their de- bates upon tariff and taxation are essentially the debates of bunch of noisy quacks, and their picayune efforts to make political capital out of the railroad crisis stamps them as mountebanks.
 Legislation is a hobby horse has | been well nigh ridden to death. And every new law that is passed is only a pigmy effort to fill up the bottom less and every widening gulf that separates the economic from the political world.
 The real world is the industrial
 world The varying movements within that world is the pulse of the social life. It is within that
 world that the great things, the great changes, the great events of
 human history are being developed.
 The forces reaching maturity there
 in are collosal. The railroad crisis
 is only flash in the pan of the na-
 ton. The politicians life is in an atmosphere of their own, quite un-
 aware of the gigantic forces which are in vortex about them, and the
 world that is being made outside le-
 gislative halls.
 Nor is it the fault of the poli-
 ticians primarily. The fault is with
 the press. The press has been a
 cloak hiding the later day develop
 ment of society. Ignoring the con-
 crete facts of social evolution, the
 historical method of the average
 paper is the method of a hundred
 years ago. The papers have been
 the high priests of politics. Their ministrations center around the
 idols that are supposed to have the
 destinies of the nation in the hollow
 of their grasping hands. Their ef- forts have been to concentrate at tention upon the political activities las if they alone were worth while
 and they alone contained the es
 sence of the national life. But the
 national life is far elsewhere. The
 national life is in the mine, the ex
 change, the workshop, the factory
 the railroad, the union hall. Th'
 The meeting of the political party f as much an unessential as churcf
 gathering. It is merely manifesto tion of a subsidiary social activity luxury not an essential an! ] longer.
 It is really autohypnotism to pre- tend that the political world an , longer represents the essentials o the national life. Not the smalles , or the remotest territory, except a the territorial industries are con trolled by government, is affecte' !, by the political ebullitions that iron time to time stir its borders. Bu within the developments of it's in dustries; the struggle upon tn . part of owners for profits and wag l workers for more of the product o their labor. is the real fate of tn I country to be observed. The ad : journment or the session of Con 8 gress affects not in the slightest de , gree the lives of the masses. Blu