The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-20

iant writer His books are all clever. He is not remarkable for creative effort like a London, but his grasp of the social essentials and the gift for detail is one that even few reporters are capable ot achieving With a keen sense of the social injustiCes manifest around him, endeavoring to reconcile the irreconcileable passions of the tiot- sam and jetsam that surge with the the tide of capitalism, he is a social ist by instinct almost as surely as by reason of his sympathics.
 No doubt he cannot stand for the injection of the strong stand against the war and against con scription which many of the party members have made because he feels that whether it is pro-German or not in it's inspiration, it has that inevitable result.
 Those socialists who bitterly re- sent the charge that their anti
 militarism and anti-war propaganda has been inspired by pro-German sympathies can hardly deny the fact , that were their views to become generally accepted it would be the
 very best thing that could happen
 for the Central Powers in Europe. There is no getting over this fact and because those otherS-Russell
 Spargo, Walling. Stokes, Sinclair and the rest-realized this, they 1 found themselves seated on the horns of dilemma which made them take the tumble which they did
 What is not observed, apparently by all these, on either side, is that their factions and their frictions, are essentially bourgeois. The p1o- letariat does not object to the com polling force of violence because it It is violent. But because it is exert ed against the proletariat. Hence the question has to be dealt with from the point of view not of pro- paganda, but of eXpediency.
 The question is can the war or conscription be politically opposed with any prospect of success? And the answer is most decidedly not The reason for that answer is be- cause the socialists have no means and can suggest no means and pro vide no means of such successful resistance. The professional pacifi- cists become the catspawS of the Bergers whose unquestiOned sym pathies are far from pacific as wit messed the Leaders views as to Japan and as to Mexico.
 What tho workers will find it hard to understand by those who now oppose the war in this country is that many of the socialists lead CTS have been fairly reliable apo logists for the position taken by that section of the social demo- crats in Germany which supported the government in the military operations against the Entente. Victor Berger as editor of the Mill waukee Leader has done the Ger man cause yeoman service in this respect in a far abler and far more subtle and far more effective man ner than has Niercck's Fatherland. | And it was done under the name of socialism in this country.
 As we stated it was merely a manifestation of the bourgeois, the middle class idealism which affect ed the Milwaukee ideas and which controlled the ideas of the middle class executive of the socialist party. It was responsible, in days | further back, for the expulsion of
 Haywood from the party, and for desperate retraction of that gen eral policy at the emergency con vention. It stood out like glisten-
 ing will O. the wisp in the patriotic speeches of Mayer London and the inglorious recantation he made of the rather fine and independent sen timents uttered in a Porto Rican
 bill speech. when the House resent ed the application of the Declara- tion of Independence to the island CTS Of the CaIribean Sea.
 Because it is taken for granted that men can change their sympa- thies over nigh and alter the color