The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-15
FROM HIS ENIINESCE.

 life. And like all prominent men, he is prepared to give his opinion on every subject under the sun, from booze to strikes.
 And thus of late he has been in- terviewed by the New York World and on Wednesday, August 23, we read with great profit and instruc- tion, his remarks on the general subject of strikes.
 He does not approve of strikes. He says so quite plainly, and he states his reason with some cogency if little logic.
 Said he: eff we are to have strikes, the poor will be hurt, and naturally my sympathies are with the poor. The laborer is worthy Of his hire, but if we are too severe to- wards capital we will beggar the na- tion.
 Obedience sanctifies the whole action of man. It creates harmony between those in authority and those in subjection, and creates so- cial order pleasing to God the source of all authority.
 That is very nice. And when one comes to think of it, one feels that it is a great blessing to have His tEminence around to give us good advice and profitable instruction.
 Unhappily, when he declares that his sympathies are naturally with the poor one cannot see why that should be naturally the case, and when he suggests that labor can be 100 severe upon Capital and thus Deggar the nation, one is not quite free from inferring that it is with capital where the sympathies and the interests of His Eminence na- turally lie.
 We certainly see no reason why nlatitudinous declaration to the ef- feet that obedience sanctifes the whole action of man should be ac- cepted at it's face value, and impll- citly as the truth. Indeed 1t IS painful experience of humanity that it owes more to disobedience than to obedience. as far as the progress of the world Is concerned, and be- - cause such disobedience violently at times interrupted the social order, ,hese Tinted States owe their very existence. The colonis;ts refused to be any longer in political subjection to the royal authority, and the Great Republic of the West came into being. Every step that the hu- man race has made towards enlight- enment, in scientific lore, and by so- cial progress has come through re- fusing absolutely to bow the knee in abject subjection to authority.
 The very doctrine which Gibbons promulgates has been the founda- tion for the Divine Right of Kings. They held that their authority came from God. They insisted that the subjects of their kingship should submit because God was the source of all authority. But braver and a better theory of existence came into being when the revolutionary fathers declared that all authority to govern comes from those who are governed, and that it is in the peo- ole where by right all authority Is vested: that when any authority is not conducive to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter and abolish it.
 And so it is that when industrial authority presses upon those who are subjected to it, it is the right and the duty of those who are so pressed upon to alter or abolish the conditions of such authority.
 His Eminence is reactionis' whose mind has little in keeping q with the spirit of freedom. His idea of those in authority and those in subjection is much better suited to a political despotism than to de- B mocracy. And it would be hard day indeed when his doctrines upon working class subjection would be accepted by the workers of these United States as an infallible doc Urine to be accepted at one's peril. Fortunately even in the Church oi