The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-30
THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR.


 array, determined to accomplish cer- tain ends by the use of force.
 The shibboleths of peace have been these years past cast aside, and men trust alone the arbitrament of arms.
 It is terrible state of affairs no doubt. But it might have been and indeed it was anticipated. It IS more than thousand years since the angry apostle was warned to put up his sword in his sheathe for those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. And that is the philosophy of war.
 Basically the reason of the war is the lust for territory and power but necessarily also there is the psychological motive of fear. That this man or that shall gain over weening strength, that this nation or that shall gain overweenins power, the nations of the world are strong III awe anu itdI'
 Distrust exists and then where that usurps the place of reason and intelligence, men will war.
 It is fact that the capitalist system would fain avoid war. War may be accompanied by tremendous profits. But at the same time, the wiser know that it is accompanied later on by economic losses. It is certain to be followed by reaction industrially and financially of far reaching extent and that is to be avoided. The great powers would far rather pursue their avocat!ons if they can be pursued without wars. But if they cannot. why war will come and then there is the end: whoso lives by the sword shall per ish by the sword.
 We can easily enough trace this war back to the dominance in Flu rope of a spirit of inevitable mill tarism. That that militarism 2"ose the creature of the economy Of the lands wherein it most did flourish may not be denied: but like many another effect Of that economy it grew beyond the power of it's parent cause to control, veritable frank enstein which chilled with fears the heart of men.
 Every nation in Europe feared tc allow the other nation ,o advance and to conquer and when one oi the great powers began to threaten the integrity of the smaller powers in the Balkans, the fear of that eX- tension of power compelled resist ance. And resistance came to Aus tria from France and Russia, while the German militarists rushed tC the rescue of their Ally.
 Inevitably Great Britain became involved for the possible triumph o1 Austria and Germany, especially o1 the latter, a great trade and finan cial rival, growing more dangerous year by year was an impossibility
 And it is the very same with the United States. As stated by The New Republic in an issue of Febru ary in justification for war witt Germany We are being drawn into the war as a consequence of Mir Wilson's policy of benevolent neu trality towards the Allies" ant again we have been conniving a British ilegality and penalizing tha of Germany"
 The fact is that Germany tri umphant nation was no more to b tolerated by America than by Grea Britain. All the interesjs-tn great industrial, commercial an financial interests, were lined u with the fortunes of the Allies an against that of Germany, and whil Americans generally opposed the war, their sympathies, refecting i measure the sympathies of tn economically great, as always, wer with the Entente and opposed t the Central Powers.
 National pride is as vigorous America as in any country. Nationf pride would be humiliated to thin that what would be a deplored ever tualty had happened because of tf supineness of the American natiol Hence it was long evident that entr into this war was inevitable. Tn