The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-04

the lawleSs attacks upon the work CTS on every side, assassination, jailing, deportatiOns and the like winch are all that is needed to start things going.
 True enough the employing classes may feel themselves well prepared Indeed to carry on as they have been carrying on is symptomatfC of nothing so much as a strong be- lief in their own ability to push things through with a high hand and to crush any effort at reprisal upon the part Of labor
 But that collective frame of mind of any class in power has always been the cause of the downfall of that same class. They are simply greasing the slide into the turbul- ence of a class war will, likely as naught, be fraught with Conse- quences that they had no idea of. It is as true for society as Tor the individual and the truth for every one is unquestionable, that as we SOW. so also shall We reap. In- 1 deed 1t is truer for the Collectivity For death may remove one from the scene before he has been fated to face the dreadful harvestings of his former actions. But for society there is no such respite. The deeds of the father are settled by them, thelr children or their children s N kren
 What proud knight in tas feudal l times, riding rough shed over the l peasants who were his serts, mock | ing their miseries and intensifying their poverty by the grasping seiz- 1 ures made to provide fuel for the 1 flames of his appetites. his ambi- 1 tions or his aVariCc, ever dreamed 1 that the red terror of the Revolu- tion would mark the end of that 1 flaming chapter? There is no one so blind as he that will not see. And the powerful industrial corporations that have begun to make them selves a law unto rhemseves within i the confines of this republic, must needs, if they have common pru- dence, look to it. These acts are not finished when the seed of trouble is sown. When men are torn from their homes and sent 10 die or suffer across the desert- when men are taken from their rooms and hung by hired assassins, these things don't end there Their reaction follows throughout the years. They no no,e end there. than the planting of the seed ends the ploughing of the field. These things continue. Society's acts are deathless in their consequences as they are ruthless in their reckoning. Even the ancients had observed the truth of this. The wisest of the pagans said that the dice of the Gods were always loaded. The mills, said another, of the Gods grind slowly, but they grind to fine flour. tardy though it prove stops not till it reach delinquency" is the moral of an English poem. All down the line of history that the reaping will be as the sowing is preached In tongues that are never still, is writ ten in words of fire that even thosc who walk in darkness may read. It is the persistent fact of the chang ing social condition that retribution was inevitable. Why, they made . Goddess of this strange fact in Greece: she was the daughter of Night and was the Distributor, awarding pains and penalties with unvarying and inflexlble justice. And mark well her shining marks were the proud and insOlent those who had conceived that for them selves alone had happiness and the joys of life been conceived and their ends and aims and ambitions and desires had needs to be ministered to by those who were of no such estate.
 It is a mistake to imagine be- cause this is all pagan mythology it has no connection with the social facts. That mythology was the del fcation of experiences which were not otherwise to be eXplained and