The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-06

LIOlo liSAA bCAAS oA bfs tot.A Ut Ni- dimension. is eyond our grasp. Just as the patriot thinks that "his first bes. country ever is at hone. so the national critic Is led into the fatuous view that one cuntry is very much and unfortunately diff erent from another. It Is the com pensation of the gods that if no country is very much better than another as to ideals and purpose, so no country is very much worse than the other.
 That we see on every side the brutality of the search for wealth, as in America. is so evident. means merely that we are closer and bet ter informed in the circumstances that beset us.
 It might be more lofty view to take that the United States Is fight ing for human liberty when enter ing into the European war. but to
 
 tor stands out too conspicuously. Even if it is. as Norris said a war for dollars, this country is certainly in goodly company. Even Americans with pro-British leanings among themselves wink shrewdly when they read of the exceedingly noble purpose that led England into the war: namely to protect the integrity of Belgium; and now that the British publicists have almost forgotten all about Belgium and insist upon stating the real objective of the war, in cnunCiating the minimum demands for peace. We can afford to take some consolation from the fact that all nations have the same end in view.
 excuse that money is the American ideal because money is also-and we mean money. property and power the ideal of the rest of the na- tions. But it is some poor excuse that the capitalist economy allows no other. Of what. from the day of their bornng to their dying day can men think of. work for, strive for. but making money? It alone will afford their old age security. l. alone will extend them social re- spect. It alone will grant them the good things Of life. Those who have it are the better classes. Pow erty is condemned on every hand. even by the poor. The dogs bark al a beggar and the world bows be- fore a Rockefeller. The Judge mo- derates his decision when ruling on millionaire delinquent, and the voice of a Dogberry is hoarse shivering wretch whose guilt is sy- nonimous with his pennilessness. Those who are ordered are those who have not. Those who give ord- CTS are those who have. The high place is for the man with money; he is the at the head of the ban quet table and to him the poets. the orators, the painters, the sculp- tors bow and dedicate their work. The papers mention him with defer ence and his visit to his na tive place is the occasion of a national fete. These are not merely generalizations They are facts may be observed every day. Wealth is held out be- fore us all as the one thing worth while. The other ideals" are merely theoretic; excellent for homi- lies that induce sleep and forget fulness.
 Religionsts may tell us this wholly evil. They have been doing so for thousand years and they. the while, have been accommodating wealth and fighting for power and fame and control themselves. Every one is doing it. because the system that exists allows nothing else. The environment produces our ideals as well as our ideas There are ex- captions. notable ones. but not on