The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-22
INTERNATION.ALISM.

United States was established, this country was far removed from any European influences and what did finger within it's confines was more or less colonial sentiment for the land whence the original colonists sprung, quite a common and little recognized affection predominant in many colonies for the parent cOun- try from the earliest times to the present. But ii was merely seM- tim~ut which had no roois iu the 4olid ualeria ,f all ec ,'!o@ic aI,Uu1worb.
 The space that divided the Amer icas from Europe was one not easily overcome and this inspired the very important doctrines of isolation and avoidance Of entanging alliances which some O. the greatest oI the revolutionary fathers enunciated
 As time sped on, inventions kept persistently reducing distances. The ocean packets abandoned sail and took to paddle wheels, from paddle wheels took to propelIors, and from the old type oG marine engines t9 turbines, each improvement drawing the continents closer together and the trade and traffic between the peoples. Americans settled in Eu- rope and in European dependencies. The telegraph and the electric cable connections brought them in such close and constant touch with their own country that hey were in real ity closer to the heart of activity m th, United States than would have been an Ohioan settler to New York iu the early years of the coun- try'5 independence Civilization progress which anihilated space aul- Inflated also the isolation that was logically to be observed from that space And Americans and Euro radus mterchaueed trade, literature, policies. iuyenuous; and there came strong union between the indus triauy powerful in both continents.
 It became quite a regular thing for the blooded squaws of American plutocracy to seek a crownlet or coronet in the missionaries of moribund European feudalism, and established chiefs ill the European continent sought the financial ad- vice of American kings of finance in the adjustment of their Financial affairs and in the investments of their private fortunes. More than one American of great prominence was absorbed in these activities and oftener than not became more Flu ropean than the Europeans them selves.
 Talents found an international field. A Gardner Williams of Cali fornia became the guide of the huge De Beers diamond monopoly and a John Hays Hammond the consulting engineer and geological expert of the same corporation or the Rand 1 GoldGelds. The isolation that poli- tically was attained, became con fined merely within political spheres: the real life of the coun- try's activities over flowed such mar : TOW confines.
 Trade, and the economic impulses | that inspire trade, drove the nation beyond it's own border and it found 1 itself not only ready but willing, 1 not only willing but anxious, not only anxious but eager to adopt the imperialism which economic i'm 1 pulses thrust upon it, in the annex | ation and assimilation or effort at assimilation of the territories of the Phillilpines, Of Porto Rico, of Guam and Hawaii.
 The isolation that belonged to the continent of America and which re- fected itself in Monroe doctrines and other of the political paraphe- nalia of quite different industrial. commercial and generally speaking, economic epoch, became thing of the past. The great world which had been very wide place so that Lemuel Gullivers and Robinson Crusoes could be created by stay-at- home authors, and the fiction ere ditted as realities of wandering lives, became narrowed and con- stricred and compressed, and should CTS of the nations where once had