The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-15

hey may not Strlke. Has not gov ernment said it is sufficiency and may not officials prove it with many tistics that so many motions may be made with so many pounds of rice spuds, meat mayhap? That so many hours toil is repaired of it's toxic ef- fleets by so many hours rest and sleep? Science the hand maiden of government, serves the social scheme and contcnlmcnt fastening like tendrii around the foundation of Justice, glorifes the beautiful sy- stem! So insist he of the wizard wand to all and sundry. Individual responsibility is removed. Govern mental responsibility with a fathers foresight and a mothers tenderness looks after the social units. The employers are employers in perpetuo secured in their revenue of reason able profits by government, and the toler is suitably supplied with all that a toiler needs to be an efTicf- ent, a steady and a devoted work man.
 l Thus waves he his wand of ideal 1 ism before the admiring legislators. Can the doubting mind any longer doubt or the hesitating soul any longer stay his support
 Anon the band plays inspiring strains, visions of Liberty in Twenti- eth Century robes of government control arise and it is done?
 How simple it is and how is it none have thought O. it 1 before? Reasonable profits-reason able wageg-who wants more is a dastard, a disloyal traitor-away with him,
 But, Alas, it is not so simple. They who would right quickly agree as to what was reasonable wages for the working stiff. apprehend some difficulty in agreeing upon the req sonable profits of employers. For these are days of complications. Tax ation of profits or incomes, have not the ingenious minds of the fiscal eX- .perts devised these strange things to perpleX employers and to worry those who profit? Accordingly have these things to be considered. What might be reasonable yesterday would be unfair today, and what was reasonable today might be un- fair tomorrow. Hence they doubt and suspect the best of plans They regard askance him with the wizard wand Of government control. They want security that profits will be al- ways reasnnable-to them. They wish, by CT without your leave, to have the final say in it. Else what is it but Prussianism-Kais not liberty? Else is it not a funda- mental violation of the employers s rights conceded him from time cut of mind? So the idealist is consider ed an interfering fellow strongly un-American, without real patriot ism, menacing the foundations of the country's greatness. and who knows-a Germanist in disguise well worth investigating? Thus the perpleXed reformists and the per pleXed profiteers and the perplexed legislators unite in an endless chorus of questionings and debatings and very great eloquence indeed. They hire literary tights with eminent style and charm of expression and wealth of phrase to garnish their views. Profit-that is the idea, dol lars and cents. millions, wealth, power, position, cannot a hesitating legislature see that all profit is reasonable? If two per cent, legally and under the proper conventions and approved by custom is obtained, why not ten, why not twenty, fifty. one hundred a thousand per cent under the same conditions? Why net indeed? Who may answer? Not your idealist, that un-American in terfering fellow who shakes the Goddess at her very foundations.