The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-05

the end''.
 There are lots of things in the
 United States today much more serious than the international ques
 ton although they may be subsidiary i apparently thereto. The matter of ! feeding and clothing and making | happy and comfortable the people herein is the transcendent question.
 The country has no right to turn
 deaf ear to the clamor of the hung
 ry in the cities for bread while 1 shouting for vengeance upon an
 other nation. Surely in the turmoil
 these things might be listened to
 notwithstanding the war urge, but
 they are drowned in the alarums
 and the tocsins that are sounding
 to arms.
 This is a time when the nation
 above all wants to be directly con- sulted-when the views of the mas
 ses should be heard-when the
 opinions for or against could be plainly registered. Not that this
 will be done; it was the reasonable thing for a democracy to do, so tha; the voice of the people might be
 heard.
 The resort to violen; methods of
 disposing of any question is the
 last resort It is the last resort
 when everything else failed. re-
 sort to an effort to finally solve
 disputed matter by force necessitates
 preponderance of force in all
 lines where heretofore it has been
 quiescent It means the summary
 removal of the civil liberties and
 the substitution thereof of martial
 law. Accordingly it is a step so
 sequences, that it may not be lightly
 entered upon.
 Frankly President Wilson has for
 long time staved off the final re. sort; he has put it off much further than it was generally expected,
 but the country thought the more , dorsed that policy which they sought in so many quarters to ridicule,
 and surely the sentiment has not changed so quickly among the pso- pie since last November
 Whether they represent a ma ajor- l ity opinion or not we do not know, , but we do know that Lafollette,
 Stone and the rest who oppose war , represent quite an enormous num- | Der of the population Of the . United States. Moreover said l Thoreau, "any man more right than l his neighbors, constitutes major [ ity of one already, and we can . well understand that these men feel that they are right and mean to act up to their convictions. II is a very difficult thing, how } ever, for few to oppose the many. - It requires a strong will and great 1 moral courage. It has been instanced by few in every belliger- | ent nation, not with any degree of tolerance Yet the names of Lieh, knecht, Zetkin, Russel and Treve- , Ivan in Europe will be recalled with the delight that brave men are re- called when the history of the pre- , sent stormy tide is rewritten in } calmer and more judicial moods.
 Had the civilization that existed been led by such as these, had the . ideals which men affected been l cherished as their ideals and beliefs were men to respect the truth r whether in pleasant or unpleasant
 guse as these men respected it, : were our convictions those born of
 a conscientious regard for the right, we all know that there would have i; been no war.
 . But none calleth for Justice nor B any pleadeth for Truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies; they con- r ceive mischief and give birth to
 iniquity. They hatch cockatrice t eggs and weave the spiders web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth r and that which is crushed breaketh B out into a viper. Surely so! The g dreadful toll that Europe pays is the f price of years of peace when reck- 3 less ambition, lust for power, greed , of gold turned men from justice r between man and man and led hu- manity straight into a life of cruel
 shams, economic lies and social ir-