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

lance politically. there was such an alliance between them as neces- sitated an ultimate political alll. ance.
 The certainty that the United States would have become involved in this war was absolute. The eco- homie forces which direct it's destl- nies certainly made it an inevitable event in the long run. And al- though there may have been needed some highly worthy. elevating, and moral motives, these will never be lacking when economic interests de- sire a cloak under which to operate as their interests dictate. They cer- tainly are plentiful enough just now.
 This seems supremely natural. These economic interests are the do minating economic factor Their cause is the national cause and their welfare is that which has to be considered first, last and all the time. All the political activities ot consequence have that welfare for prime consideration and the conCep- tions of modern statesmen never let such considerations out of their range of vision.
 Consequently the first step sug- gested was preparedness which as stunned quite a gigantic momentum among those controlled by those interests. It was realized that this war created conditions of great prosperity for some and great de- priyation for others; it was very clearly realized that the extreme between rich and poor had become very wide indeed It was realized that the masses had reached de gree of relative pauperism that was resented and record of eXploita- ton that promoted discomtent; that prosperity for big business had come to mean quite the reverse for the workers, and that it would be difficult to control the latter un- less d mental condition was pro duced by the stimuli of war, pre- paredness or other ideals. These were therefore steadily propagated and steadily urged by the kept press which proved it's utility in this regard by developing really noble atmosphere of lofty patriotism. The masses were subtly and very clever ly taught that when intuition mak- CTS, war-baby nurses, spectators and others sold to belligerentS and starved America to feed host Ot war craZed maniacs, they were per forming the highest of our social cally sought to get food and women with starving babies refused blindly to accept their fate, socially they were considered highly dangerous mobs This perversion of the ego ism of the masses which is thus in stanced is due primarily to the ease with which the real causes of things can be ignored and quite regardless of the end sought, a giorfied means will lead society into most fantastic policies.
 That Germany in again resorting to submarining felt that war would result we may lay down as fac, only if we understand by Germany, as Germans understand of America, the powerful classes therein. The masses of Germany know as little and are consulted as little as the masses in the United States-quite possibly now that they are in the extremity of war, a good deal less.
 The German rulers knew that war was inevitable if submarining was indulged in but frankly it had to be so accepted. The situation as far as Germany is concerned Is deSper- ate if enemies possessed of practi- cally unlimited wealth are allowed to use the wealth and the credit extended to it, to maintain an in- definite war.
 Hence interference with this mu- milton traffic on the high seas be- came just as vital to German victory as resistance on the Somme or the conquest of Rumania.
 It is to be believed that Germany had calculated the cost, and the cost of war in Germany as among the Entente, and as among the peo- pie of America, will have to be born