The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-20


 looking for good job with a big corporation and looks forward to the time when he will be factory direc- tor. sales manager, treasurer, raw material purchaser, general auditor, or function on some of the similarly lofty pcrche- of salarydom. He may begin as clerk in the train office and hope eventually to be general man. ager or even President. He may begin as teller in the bank and hope that eventually he may be cashier or vice-presidcnt of the concern. He may be surveyor for the company and hope one d@y to be chief en- giGeer and so on ad infnitum.
 He wraps himself up in the com pany't toga and walks with it in the streets and he carries it's 2tmos- sphere around with him, sleeping or awaking.
 Now the man who owns his own plans, his own business. his own farm, and who is under no financial obligations to anyone, is considered, and rightly always was considered, Gn independent man.
 His independence will color the complexion of the national thought n" matter how powerful may be conflicting interests And indeed it is worth noting that it has power fully affected the national thought in America during the nineteenth century.
 Foreign critics have observed cOniderable difference in the Amer ican mode of thought and American idealism within the past fifty or six ty years It has not been so obvi- ous to Americans themselves be- cause they have been living through the change.
 And indeed :t first sight one can Ob ;crve that the entire situation eco- nomically speaking has und -rgone a tremendous change
 That change is due of course so the advent of the great corporation
 It came with the trust. And today it is practically solidified. It is
 marked by an ultra conservatism and an ultra respect for money, fol
 position, for privilege, for ascend
 ancy.
 It is found in the Press. It is ty
 pifiCd in such wceklies as Leslie.
 ant in such dailies as tke Sun anC .hc Tribune and the Ike. Every re
 form 70 this conception IS a greater : abuse than the evil it would remove Essentially it is an employers view
 point, but its also an average sala ried oarne:'s view point, whose view
 point is always an intensified form l of things from the employers poin of v.cw.
 Moreover the fact that the day il gone by for the small independen man of business, in industry ant other pursuits, merely means tha l there being more salaried men, ther, , must also be greater national sub
 serviency. The very first thing tn, l salaried earnor must do if he woul, z make good is to eliminate his owl
 opinion and cultivate that of th concern which employs him. H. : must be as far his own individualit.
 is concerned dead to all intent and purposes. He must live who'll, } for the compcny that employs hin , He can have no opinion of his own ! He must have that of his boss. Tn man who would suit himself is no likely to suit his employer and fo that reason he must be a menta eunuch. ready to do and say ant , think as he will bc told. l; is unquestionably inevitabl . with such increasing numbers o , these and with such increasini . prizes offered for the success of sucl : as these in the form of trem cndou l salaries, they would seriously, pro l foundly affect the national thought r the national soul and the nationa spirit.
 l It is ridiculous to think that sucl = as theGe will be men of the sam , mold of soul as those who wOul'
 speak their minds, regardless of tn consequences. It Is ridiculous t. r conceive that such as these woulc