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

joined shoulder to shoulder with other nations and hands across the sea and across other wide spaces elapsed most easily under the un- iting influences of steam and cleo tricity and the thousand and one technical improvements in the arts and sciences
 Every year of late has been draw ing nations closer to nations. And whether we will or not there has arisen a conflict of interest as well as mutuaity Of interest in the var ious spheres of human activity throughout the world.
 In financial and industrial matters the coalescence has all but beer complete. Europeans invested mi lions in property rights in th" Cn tied States and this investment en- abled foreign countries to dictate with absolute sway how American citizens should live. London has again and again decided what shall be the rate of wages paid American workers in America, aHG American promoters explained to foreign ca pital again and again the necessity of certain conditions being permit ted by these owners.
 Great foreign industrial concerns owing and controlling millions worth of property in the United States. owned and controlled the millions of American workers who Were employed. therein. And it has often happened that the state troops and the machinery of the courts have had to he made use of by for cign corporations to brow beat the American workers into submission, so that Mayfair might have its di- yidonds and Park Lane it's social onjoyments,
 Similarly in the world of labor ,he question of nationality long ago wou1 by the board. It became inn material to the American or the for oIgn corporation operating in Am erica. what sort ol labor produced the profits which they enjoyed. So it was that Pacific Mail steamship companies and Great Northern Steamship lines spread the glory Of the stars and stripes upon the seas through the labor of their Chinese crews. American planters in Hawaii eXperimented without any regard to nationalism with all races ill their cane fields. The steel corporations watched with more or less satisfac- tion the European worker drive Am erican labor from all their works. the textile industry in the north early saw ill the unlimited immi ration to the United States an eX- haustless field for exploitation that would not be afforded by the Amer ican workers. Great roads were built by enormous gangs of semi-peon- ized laborers and the padrone sy- stem was a reality in multitudious undertakings.
 1t did not need a war to prove that the economic iuternationalism of civilization Was complete; it may need great war to prove that where the economic international ism is an accomplished fact a politi- cal nationalism is only likely to lead to bloody struggles, a destroyed civilization and endless miseries.
 These are the facts. They are facts of our social lives which may not be written off by essays upon patriotism and freedom. They are facts that rise above the personal intoxication of the national idealist who refuses to take cognizance of the actual conditions which sur round him
 The inevitability of change in the social structure following change in the economic structure is a fact that may not be well denied and certainly not denied without rather evil consequences to those who have nourished ignorance and found it an envenomed viper coiled within their bosom.