The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-24

The United States that is considered
 in Europe is the United States as
 seen in Wall Street, as checked and
 balanced in the counting houses of
 the Morgans, as packed. labelled
 and delivered from the Munition Factories, as illustrated by that i'm i possible few that has fattened upon i war stocks and that has labelled it's ownership with such facetious irony
 its war babies
 | And when Wilson, with lofty mind and noble principle, sets out to make peace the world outside of tm- 1 erica views nim as Uncle sam iii , great %peeL lator in food au& cloth l ing and shoes and war maternal who
 r:ate his lecple stint t;.eir bread
 and sell he clothing from their ! backs and the shoes from their feet 1 that few gamblers might profit 1 by the bloody carnage of a European
 battlefel+
 It is therefore only req 'orab!g to point out that President W;.son with the best intention in the world is handicapped from the start not by
 the people of America, but by the
 reputation which the people have obtained through the profit mad spe culatOrs and munitionists and ship pers who have ransacked the na-
 tional supplies so that the nation starves and is unclad that they may enjoy a few more dollars profit.
 For it is only natural that foreign
 nations, observing these ideals pre-
 vaiing among the most powerful 1 classes in the United States and dominating the nation to such an extent that corrective legislation and discipline is sneered at as an imposs- ibility. would regard with sinister
 distrust the sincerest and the most earnest effort.
 It is really difficult to blame belli-
 gerent foreign nations if they dis
 trust the absolute sincerity of
 nation which has made millions of dollars profit through war, changed it's entire industrial system to that end, and proposes to build the strongest navy in all the world and to make every citizen a soldier.
 It is an astonishing thing that Wilson himself would go before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee and talk about reducing national ornaments to within such standard as is required to enforce order, and forget that only a short year ago in his own cometlike preparedness campaign he declared in loud voice amid louder applause that the United States must begin to build the biggest navy in all the world, and at the same time his cabinet was considering making every one a soldier President Wilson will not see any more than do any of the pacific QuiXotes observe, that there is just one cause for war and that has it's basis upon a struggle which any system of exploitation en- geuders. It has it's basis upon the ability to make money out of other mems labor, and as long as that system exists there will be wars. We may give wars religious or a patriotic garb, but beneath it all is the flesh and blood of rival exploit ing interests which have donned that uniform to deceive the ignorant and to mislead the unwary
 To propose an industrial prepar- cdness which bespeaks an industri- al absolutism in one nation. and to mention at the same time the need of such a policy to conquer for eign markets is only to represent in pacific guise a state of things culminates in actual warfare. The ramifications of trade are al ways poisoned barbs which en- gender hostlities. There are bound | to be disputes as to territorial li- mutations or as to commercial or financial methods. The problem of civil war in Mexico would always be | a civil war problem, if the Amer ican or other business interests had not spread out into the southern 1 fa~ sures. How many editorials in his | syndicate of papers have not the | Hearst properties been resnonsihla