The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-26

JlOHS. lie mas been QrlVen to TeVOlL in the steel mills, in the coal fields, in the metaliferous mines and he is . shot down without regard to human, and deported or jailed with no re- gard for constitutional rights. He sees class decisions dishonor the courts, he sees privileged corpora tions lobby their legislation through He sees the powerful corporations like the coal companies in Colorado deny them all political rights and establish by their corporate power a condition to use the language of the State Supreme Court where: No free, fair, open election as con templated by the constitution iA poss- ible, where private companies so throttle public opinion, deny the free exercise of choice by sovereign electors, dictate and control all cleo tion officers, prohibit public discus sions of public questions, and i'm perially command what citizens may and what citizens may not peace fully and for lawful purpose enter upon public election and public ter ritory".
 Now we do not mean for one in- stant to say that foreigners are dis criminated against in the United States. They are not. And if the hand of corruption or illegality or outrage falls heavy upon the for eigner it also falls with impassive equality upon the American. It de pends entirely whether the foreigner is rich or whether he is poor, and whether the American is the head of a great interest or is an Amer ican working man. One thing that is done is that the American and foreigner are treated alike accord ing to their social status. The for eign corporation gets the use of the gunmen and they will shoot down with the same light heart the Amer ican striker as the foreigner, and the American who leads a strike with determination stands just as good a chance of being jailed, rail roaded or deported even though hi: | ancestors arrived on the Mayfowel and were aides de camp to George Washington as the gink who passed through Ellis Island. Take William D. Haywood. He was deported, kid mapped, jailed and arrested many times because of his being identified with the strenuous side of the labor movement and the fact that his an. cestors arrived with the Pilgrim fathers and fought with Washing ton and in the civil war is wholly immaterial. What is material is that he is General Secretary of the I. w. w.
 When M'Kinley was assassinated the outcry against foreigners was intense, but his assassin was a young American. And that young Americans act resulted in placing laws upon the statute book which restricted immigration and makes eevry foreigner suspected anarchist and assassin.
 But what we want to get at in this educational talk upon the for eigner is that when these politicians are giving their attention to the evils of the hypenates and blaming all on the foreigner they are just barking up the wrong tree. It is not a race or national question. IL is essentially an economic question.
 The effects that Works deplored are all effects of an economic cause. He planes the individual but the individual is merely the creature of a certain economic en- vironment which results in produc- ing such as he is. And it is there where one must begin, American or foreign born, if they are to make possible the high ideals the best of them have concerning Americanism | Happiness, human welfare, mo- rality, contentment are not national They are human possibilities. They can be menaced in America as in any old world country. And what ever land one is in will depend very much upon what. the people make it, remembering the environment makes the people.