The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-06

those more willingly, as higher grade shoes for them, when they dress" up and gratify their esthetic sense, could be furnished of prepar- ed paper. Prepared paper was not equal to wood or leather. Wet weather and wet walking played hell with it, and made it mushy and pulpy, besides the price of paper was going up that it too was luxury that had to be carefully handled.
 Moreover and in addition this fuel problem was quite a cruX that had to be solved for the workers Hard coal was twelve in New York and Chicago dealers saw it going to fifteen dollars in Chicago this bless ed winter,
 Wood wasn't easy to get, and the scientists thought the only solution was to go without.
 And all this time, getting back to money, gold is just piling up and aching for some one to come along and cut loose.
 The total resources in "our' banks according to the report of the Con- troller of the Treasury on September 12 was fourteen billion, four hund- red and eleven million dollars. Twenty billion securities and bonds of all sorts, and the rest specie, So although the country is richer than ever, and there is actually more money available for the spend ! ing the workers are to be reduced to horsefesh and potatoe cake and wooden shoes.
 Is it any wonder those wise polti- clans when they came across with that there slogan about democratic prosperity got the workers goat? 1 Wouldn't any man experiencing the ecstasy of a horseflesh ragout and picking the potatoe eyes from his ginger cake just get up from the table to run over to the booth to
 
 Jeffersonianism that proclaims the equality of men: for horsefesh eat CTS as we'll the consumers of bull i beef?
 Never in the history of the United | States of America have the profits been so enormous and the earning capacity per capita been so huge. They surpass all previous dreams of wealth production. And never be- fore have the conditions of the pro- ducers been so uniformly lower on account of the higher costs of liv- ing. This is surely an ideal state of things in American industry. This i is the state of things that realizes l the ideal that has been set by the 1 by the American Merchants and entire problem is to keep it that way. To bolt them down, to tis | them fast to screw them in the sticking place, so that no kicking or i buCking or remonstrance or agita- 1 tion Of any sort will disturb them. It 1 is beyond doubt a perfection of ! things when the many millioned will be sure of their millions. and the few investors will be sure of their investments. and there has to be some way devised of keeping the stiffs eating horsefiesh, wearing wooden shoes and consuming pota- toe bread if the lives and liberties of the people are to be preserved. That's an immortal cinch. So there fore with many appeals to Jefferson ian enlightenment and considerable flag waving and not a little high minded talk of Americanism, we have to have a big army. That's the first essential. The next is compul- sorry arbitration, anti-strike laws, more and more dictatorial powers in the state and national executives. and thus shall democracy reach the stars.
 If the workers attempt to stir up a stink, deport them, club them, bludegon them. shoot them as al Ludlow and Bayonne and Youngs- town. If their organizers put in an appearnce railroad them as in Colo rado or in Minnesota.
 Elevate the police to plane ot semi divinity. And in the fullness of time and with the aid of the edu- ootoro aud politiciaue thora will he