The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03
\ WORD WITH YOU.

You cannot successfully fight or get rid of an evil until you under l stand tEc character of that evil. II the people understood how tc get rid of the industrial ills under which they suffer, do you not think they would have done so? Wouldn't i 1t be natural for them to so act They have acted often. They have voted the prohibition ticket; they have voted the republican ticket; they have voted the democratic; they have voted labor tickets-and still they are suffering under the same old conditions as Of yore. Neither the men who voted, nor the men they voted for, knew the fun damenta! trouble, and hence they have not applied and cannot ap- ply. the remedy. They refuse the remedy at every election because they do not understand the disease. TO asscrt that the tens of thousands of men regardless of party whom they have elected, have been dis honesty. hut lack of knowledge. Had the masters understood tine real character of chattel slavery. and to what it would meItahly lead. dc you not HOW know they wou16 aay, freed their chati"la2 Yet .ha. Ms hsoWu to many men .t the tine- mex Of tEc scuth, too, If the war had not come, they would have freed their slavc, be fore this of their own will, because thev would have seen by the rapid aaC wonderful development 2t the north. that ,aauol slavery was inn poyeriusEing them and making them slaves to thc ricLcr capitalists Of the north. using wage slaves. But they would not listen to reason and you know the result. To as sumc that the mon who wore the gray were. intentionally wrong do- ing the things that they knew was against their own interest, is too absurd for consideration. Men who go out and fight as they fought, suffered as they suffered, were sincere and in deep earnest. They did not see far enouch-thcv did not understand the foundation Of society But few men of the north at that time understood.
 Now the system of wage slavery is doomed as certainly as was chatel slavery, but the men who >rc .em- porarily profting by it are aa blind 10 it's real character as were he mon of thc gouth concerning their peculiar institution. Men act according to their understanding. The capitalist today cannot logic ally examine the society they are coatrollino, they cannot fellow the changes that it is making every day: they canno. see that it is self destructive and must perish. The Socialists cen and do see that, for we have studied the character of society and its evolution from the primitive state Of man. Socialism can as surely predict it's unfold ment and the consequences as the ast. oromcrs c#n predict the coming of an eclipse. The changes are not 70 take place; they arc taking place every day The evolution is at work now and las ever been at work While it takes years to pro duCe tree tC hearing state. yet IF few month after the blossoms come the fruit is ripe unto pick. ing. Sc the tree of the Co-opera' live Commonwealth has been grow
 ing these many years and already the buds arc appearing and WIG know the fruit thereof. Trusts combines, military power and tho growing organizations oi capital
 and labor ere tLc buds Of capital
 ism that are destined to flower into the rcd bloom of Socialism. fol Socialism is merely the unfolding of capitalism, and not a separate and distinct genus. Capitalism hat to produce the conditions out O
 which Socialism must come. So cialism has been growing rapidl! these many years; it could no come until the wonderful developed machinery of production and dis tribution by capitalism had beei completed with their logical effect of mentS! awakening of the work