The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-19
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Is much used III very e1eCtlV' sRotching that high browed art cri, rics much admire.
 devil fish which sacretes this fluid an6 emits it in the water SC that ii IS safe from any danger in the clouds of darkness that it has itself cjocted.
 There is a tribe of money makers resemble that devil fish and they make Use of their own raIticular kind of sepia just now of very patriotic type. to make tFeir get away with rich loot from the ma ton on account of war.
 Such tribe are those who have furnished defective munitions to the government Such a tribe are those who have been selling sup plies to enemy nations knowing well that they will he used against America. Such are those who grind down labor during the national emergency so that their profits may be long in the land. Such are those who as now reported have hecn doing their best to plan an evasion of the payment of the tak npon their excess profits.
 The particular brand of Gcpta that they use to conceal their ne farious operations is colorcd red. white, and blue. They make use of blatant patriotism to mfke money, to gouge the nation out o1 excess profits and to grind lator into an excess of subserviency SC that their profiteering may 'a wholly and perpetually undis- turbed.
 They are the proftecrs ho wh, Ii the workers find that the means C living costs soar beyond their wages say do not strike it is unratrioti".
 They are the profiteers who say when they are discovered in their footing of the national treasury, do not muck rake it is unpatriotic.
 They are the proftcers who when bum ammunition is furnished the soldiers who have to do the fight ing. say do not talk about it, it will give aid and comfort to the enemy and that would be above all nnpatriotic.
 The public press is the means to al great extent Of their scpia-ej tions and it is tEe public press which must bear a share in the responsibility for the activities of the devil fish among the money grubbers.
 Turn to Arizona. There the devil fish with copper tentacles had thou sands of workers who demanded better conditions elected from the state. ThereupOn the country set up nationwide flood of sepia endorsing the action of the deN il fish: beclouding the fact with an impenetrable veil of patriotic dis cursivenes3 and poisoning the pun- lie mind with a tissue of falsel ood.
 The agitation against strikes is conducted under the same cloud oi pcrversion so that the public will come to realize that profits are justified beyond any controllabie limits. while labor must remain content with what it gets at the risk of being reasonable, traitorous and seditious.
 We have to say that this Condf lion is rapidly becoming a nationa scandal and if any means were sought which could give aid ant comfort to the emmy it is the means adopted by these patriotic pro iiteering agencies to get away wit. their loot.
 Quite a good many people, hear and soul in accord wi,a the Wal for democracy, are observing profit ccrs footing the national treasur, for excess profits; emasculdtjng Ia bor organizations and cultivatins the notion that the workers should be content to pay for what the 2e whatsoever price may be demanded insisting that labor be ground tt the lowest limits and that tn s'r,k, is reasonable. white thes" :Hak' the war the means of increasing their means beyonl the dreams O. aysrice.