The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-20
SINCLAIR'S RESIGNATION.

The withdrawal of Upton Sinclair from the national socialist party over that party's opposition to con scription draws attention to the divided views which that party en- tertains on the war question alto gether.
 The socialist party's policy in re- gard to the war is a policy that comes rather late to be effective It's anti-war policy is simply so inetfec- tive as to be puerile. It's action in denouncing this man or that who believes in the war as better for the democracies of the world is of part identical with the lack of de- Influences in it's aims as far as the war is concerned hitherto and be- fore the war was an accomplished fact.
 It has been more or less obvious that political action could not pre- vent war, and it has been obvious especially in the recent elections when the only party irrevocably com mitted to peace could not increase it's votes, but rather lost ill it's gen eral total.
 Moreover, the socialists who are now so enthusiastic over the anti war resolution of the emergency convention in St. Louis, cannot have failed to remark that the very ele- ment that put this resolution through has been tirelessly through the Milwaukee Leader for over year advocating a war with Mexico and endeavoring to foment troublesome spirit between Japan and the United States. Everyone knows the reasonable and quite na- tural proclivities of a Germanist type of Berger and his associates and it is not possible that they are one whit better in their present frame of anti-militarist mind than those men who refused to be party to any anti-war resolution.
 For all that it is very strangely significant that the men who are lined up controlling the socialist marty on it's war or antiwar policy have very little in common with the workers on the job. They are clever men. It is difficult to deny that men like Berger and Hill quit. Walling and 8enson are all men of a high order of intellect. But like all purely intellectuals they are guided more by emotions arising from their environment which is not working class en- vironment by any means. than most people are willing to allow.
 There are few intellectuals who are not inspired by their emotions or their sentiments. Their mental ity is undisciplined by job eXperi- enCe. Their ideas copious as they may be, brilliant as they surely often are. are the results of 'cul- ture" and in q sense of culture akin to that used in horticultural pursuits when forced growths in hot house and conservatory aston ish hy their luXuriance and beauty. But they are unstable, uncertain, rff change of temperature and they are not that slowed and much more material growth that arises from q hybrid between reason and job eX- perience under the dlscipl're of the machine which the working class mind develops and which often an noys the minds of those which it criticizes.
 Hence it is tha: they aye so scnsi- tive to criticism even when they Know they are righ- or when they feel they are right or believe they are right which are all the same things. Thus it is they daily with all kinds of outside and subsidiary topics such as free love, eugcnics, birth control, and lot of other things will adjust themselves cor rectly when the economy which is responsible for the mal-adjustment they note is obvious is changed to suit the needs of humanity.
 Sinclair who has just resigned the membership in the socialist par ty was such a type. He was a brill