The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-11
THE SMALLER NATIONS.

The revolt in Ireland, the rape ot paIqium. the executions in Bohemia, the misery in Poland, the refeat or Seryia and the obliteration ot Mon- tenegro excite attention to the pro- blem which in the progress ot the worlds history the smaller nations present.
 It may be very true that many of these races are distinct and incom' Datible with the nations which gov ern or control them, but OBVIOUSLY also their existence as compact anl independent national existences IS menace to the peace of the world
 Moreover waiving aside sentiment- al considerations as to the national hopes and ambitions of these lesser countries, it is hardly a doubtlui matter that the assmilation of them Inv the greater nations which at any rate control them, would be for the ben fit of themselves and the world at large.
 No person can heaitGte to say that Belgium would better off as an ln- tcgral part of the German empire than as an independent and very ineffective buffer state it has been right along The working people would fare better and the conditions of living in that over crowded na- tion would be infinitely superior to what they were in ante bellum days
 Reluctantly too, it may be con fesscd, that did the Irish accept their portion as a part of the Brltsh empire much as Scotland has done and as the colonies have done, con- ditions would improve for all con rarnod. That this would mean aa inglorious suppression of the na, tional impulse end the national homes and national ambitions can have nothing to do in consldera- lion of this problem.
 Furthermore Bohemia different in race and language to the Germans nation which controls it's destiny would be infinitely better off if il accepted it's lot and made the best of it as a section and by no means an unimportant section of the Aus trian empire
 So also with the Balkan states There has been nothing but trouble and strife since their autonomy De came an accomplished fact, and al though at that their condition was no worse than it was while Turkey dominated the country, none the les; it was also infinitely worse than Il would have been had an Austrian rule covered the entire Balkan Pe ninsula, Greece not even excluded.
 The fact of the matter is tha there are too many smaller races ant smaller nationalities, and the world progress is infinitely interrupted b1 the varying ideals of patriotic senti ment that is provoked by their OK 
 istence. Were all of Europe undal one flag and one compact nation lik' tho United States of America, pro gre,s and democracy would soon be come it's wctchword. As it is nov patrioticm in one consists in grea measure in being ready to fly at tn others throat, and national differ .ences and national animosit-cs ent s,ron tho crimson of the battlefields ke2ping mankind apart. Some oa. tha brotherhood of man will be no ar imaginary thing, but Will be reality and an accomplished fact. $. the division of the world into an inn nito number of heterogeneous sec tious called nations, of varying size ard vsrying ambitions and vary1n sentiments and varying hopes an' vargtng systems of government, tn body polite is torn with dissonsiol throughout the world and the caus of human brotherhood is indofinitel set back.
 puE RIONDE ROSS