The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-18
4 PROCLAMATION.

Woodrow Wilson is the completest master of phrase has ever sat in the White House. And that gift like charity may cover any number of shortcomings. You've simply got to hand it. to Wilson when il comes to phrase-making and he has 4 greater gift for platitude than anv man living in politics today, It is very easy indeed to write and speak Iearnedly and elegantly about nothing at all if the phrase comes handy.
 Now take this Thanksgiving pro proclamation ol President Wilson, wherein he urges sympathy and aid for the stricken people upon whom "the curse and terror oi war have fallen"
 That certainly sounds awfully nice and kind. It eievates President Will son almost at once to the higher plane. But it's pure gulf; it's all bunk. And it is a pretty rank one to get away with, as he will get away with it.
 Truly Red is the Teror and Bitter is the Curse of the European war, Black hate has usurped the place oi sanity of opinion and justice and reason. But where did it fall from? Does Wilson intend that it falls as the curse of heaven and the terror of God fell upon Sodom and Go- morrah.
 Moreover, isn't it a fact, and does not Wilson know that it is a fact, that this great prosperity we hear so much about, the immense divid- ends paid by factory and railroad, by shipper and exporter, is due en- tirely to that war. Is it not true as the truth itself, that the boasted favor of Heaven that American man. ufacturers are enjoying in the form of giant profits and cyphered mil lions, are red with blood 'clots from the very curse and the very terror that is supposed to excite deprecat' ing sympathy.
 There is not anything more eX- cites the contempt of thinking per son for the hypocrisy of big business than the efforts of big business to glut itself upon human misery, and then express it's sympathy with such wretchedness.
 That is what President Wilson is doing so loftily. lie knows. every one knows, that the war is bless ing to the American business man. Factories that had closed their doors have been extended, and new towns have sprung up as if by the genii's power to create more profits from the war.
 The least any prominent Amer" ican could do is to view this condi- tion with shamed silence. There is no reason why. the horrible state of affairs in Europe which have proved 
 such a blessing in disguise to the United States, should be exploited for their miserable side, just after the prominent democratic politicians had col cluded boosting their forum ate side in the United States, as Wilson prosperity.
 Moreover to pretend that the war comes to stricken Europe as by chance, is a gross misrepresentation' They clamored for it: men and women, high and low, noy' anu girls The nations built them- selves great ships and proud armies! Science devoted it's discoveries to aid 1 in the art of destruction! Tie profit eers themselves bent all their ener- gies to the preparedness thatsmooths the way for the conquest of markets and nationsi It was all deliberate, 1 voluntary conscious It vas not l forced upon a reluctant people nor compelled upon recalcitrailt na. tion. They revelled in their miii- [ tarism, and the end of the red paths was the redder hell of terror hy day and horror by night. They cursed themselves!
 It is exactly the same path that the profteers of the United States are urging upon this nation. They demand the same battalions and the same squadrons; they demand