The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-18

that It IS they are scared Into SUD- mission For it can very easily be shown that no one more shrewdly observes and knows that this is not the case than Germany herself. The German commanders, knowing well that a vigorous campaign in Russia would at once force the pa cificists to become militarists, and cause an enthusiastic rush to the country's standards to repel the h. vader, very wisely have called off the campaign against Russia and allow their troops to fraternize with the Slav soldiers along the borders. Most wars are in truth in origin due to fear of the emmy. That is why resort to arms is regarded as the last resort. There is seen menace in the actions of another power. the menace is magnified and the rival nation rushes to attack or to repel an attack as the case may be.
 If some way were deyiced where by nations could rid themselves of this fear of one another, there would be no wars. Instead there would be complete confidence in the future.
 Moreover it is this very fact that consists the danger in huge miii- tary organizations. The more per i feet it is, while allay1ng anxiety in the country possessing it, cxcites l alarm in the countries which are not allied or affiliated with such a one. They form coalitions of a | quasi-hostile nature against tEe menace and eventually war between the two is inevitable.
 In Germany over the protests Of the socialists was erected a mag nificent military organization. II was one that was humanly very per
 feet It had ordered industrial, commercial and political activitie, along subordinate lines to it's per
 lection. Germans feel proud of it.
 It was invulnerable they thought and assuredly unconquerable. Il
 was not making for liberty of the
 person or liberty of the community
 but it made for the security ol things as they were
 It was a great thing for Germany
 unquestionably. if we regard only the Germans these who ruled Ger
 many. It aided in the well order ing of the masses for the benefit
 of the classes. It aided in the dis semination of such education a:
 was good for the people under thi'
 scheme. It made science the hand
 maiden of progress, and progress
 the hand maiden of militarist orga
 nization. It was wonderfully adapt
 ed to colonial trade. to foreign com
 merce and ambitions associated
 with other peoples places in th'
 sun. It's officers were wonderful
 men, imbued with the whclesoulet
 devotion to their wonderful profes
 sion of expert destruction. The,
 were not merely social parasites. O society butterflies or excellent steep were men who took their profes , sion seriously as they took their SC cial positions seriously and dran
 with serious enthusiasm to 9Th
 Day.
 That was all accompanied by . necessary intelligence departmer | which spread a system of espionag around the world which ought , make other nations wonder no how laggard they were.
 But it's effect in other countrit n was bad. It excited fear and fea
 is the most dangerous of all em' :, tions in an enemy. Compelled otht nations to envy and to prepare all o to organize alliances which migl s make "the day" something entir D ly different from the Teuton col if cept.
 n It forced the almost impossib il alliance of republican France wit autocratic Russia. It was the cau' Q of an English alliance, despite i bonds of blood and feeling to u il Teutons, with the hereditary fo
 of Great Britain as were Russ o and France. It excited world
 militarism and to resort to fore while preparation became the watt 1T word in every country, preparatiC 9 against the day--'the day of wrat