The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-03
\ MENACE TO THE NATION.

While the United States of Amer ica is fighting in the world war, within the nations house it is en- tertainng an enemy of dimensions as great as. if not greater than the Kaiser himself
 That enemy is the lust-for-profits ridden interests which are now above all times clamoring for their dividends and which stop at mo- thing to see that their spells are forthcoming. which trample on every sense of decency, every prin- cipIe of American freedom, and tear the constitutional rights of the mas ses just like a scrap of paper.
 These industrial autocrats, our own pIutocratic oligarchs of indus try are the greatest menace to the nation itsell d menace that is none the less serious and jeopardizes none the lass seriously everything worth living for and everything worth dying for, because of the fact that they hide their dirty work under the folds of d hypocritieal pa triotism and in an affected loyalty to principles and institutions they venerate in on way, shape manner or form.
 Master thieves they dedect atten- tion from themselves by crying stop ThieE," when tine public is discerning their ylla;ny-adepts in assassination and :huggery, they cry murder" to divert attention from the blood upon their r2s2s.
 Is there a nation, a ratrlotic, loyal nation in this world war. risjng to express its determination that a government of the people, by tGe people for the people, shall triumph over every form oi autocracy car afford to regard unmoyed, within itself men rising to an arrogant as scrtion of power to maintain their profits. and drunk with the insat- able appetite for wealth, carrying things with a hand that deGes the law of the iand, and using the in struments of law enforcement for their own vile and vicious uses?
 In all the word was there any thing so vicious perpotrated upon a free people as the intamies oi Ari- lcna when phc copper trus, and those state and cials who were their arl5.-.. ,-,.,ures. drove businessmen rom their stores. professional men from their offices. as wei as miners who wsre on strike from the mining comps because they had dared to demand and support that demand for better living conditions within the state? Are the people ot America to suffer these prodt-lusting scoundrels to prostitute the free institutions of thc land to their own private uses and to make the imaginary liberty therein assured, nothing but a mockery when it runs counter to the will, the supreme will of the copper or other oyerlords of our industrial conditions? Is this the way to make the word safe for de mocracy that the youth of the land be called tO fight a foreign foe and in the nations necessity at home the profteers tear the constitution 10 tatters, tramrle upon the rights of the people and destroy every vestige of political, personal and in- dustrial freedom at home. The po- l.cy which is pursued with the in fenticn of cowing labor, reducing its voice to a whispering humble ness, making it bend the pregnant hinges Of the knee, gagging its ut terancc, choking it's free expression, chaining it's every act, is one that IS to be resented and resisted by every person with drop of red blood within his veins.
 Turn we to Butte. that sacred copper center where the workers have been for several years the in dustrial serfs of the mining barons. Here in the twentieth century Of our civilization, here in this day and age, gunmen have ever since the strike began been terrorizing The miners and the other workers out on strike Listen to this, he is