The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-29

more ancient ideas which had Ori- ginated in their emancipation from feudalism, and the establishment of freedom along qualified lines of peeuuiary independence. The latter more and more rejected everything that tailed of self justification as a necessity iii tho scheme oi human things. Everything from the highest and most sacred had to justify It's lofdncss and it's sanctity by prov ing it's essentially to human exist ence: that society could not proceed as well without, as it progressed with them. This was the machine discipline to which the human mind was subjected
 Hence to the first view above all | things the most sacred is individual ! initiative. Hence to the first view | the right to do uncontrolled as ownership saw fit was the cardinal principle of any kind of freedom. { Hence any arbitary restriction in doing, saying, speaking, thinking, printing, meeting, which was done . without consent freely given and shared in by such ownership, ap- peared to be the negation of all 1 freedom.
 This point of view adopted uncon- sciously the theory of the modern i industrial plant and it's governmen: and applied it to the government. Accordingly they identify govern ment with proprietorship. Hence they identify the nation with own ership. Hence they make their in- terests the paramount subject of na- tional concern. and the interests above all others for government to consider
 They rightly point out the achieve mcnts of the machine discipline in the factory when the tenders and employees are just so many me chanical units in the entire industri- al machine. They are each to do their appointed work: eliminating unnecessary motions and all under control of private owners who as private owners have absolutely freedom for themselves and the power which is practically unlimited over those dependents" whom they employ. Most interesting is it in these days to observe the clash be- tween the conflicting viewpoints in the national government
 Thus observation and experience carefully cultivated by high class specialists have evolved the notion that the war to be best carried on, must be carried on with as little outside interference as possible by highly empowered executive A strongly centralized power is de- manded as the sine qua non of suc- cessful operations with a complete subordination of all popular impul- ses and initiative.
 Hence draft acts, espionage bills and above all censorship laws are 1 insisted upon as of the first neces- l sity.
 The machine process further de- velops itself in this conception oi successful polity by the coordinate movements of subjective depart ments all under well-informed central authority, deciding quickly, accurately and finally without any outside interference whatever.
 Now tie most striking thing about this is that 1t runs as yet not count CT to the machine discipline which has affected the minds of the mas l'ses. But it does run counter to the machine process. as it affects the owners, and some of their devotees l in Congress oppose flatly and strongly any extension of power to an executive which they will not share.
 It is peculiar to note that oppo- sition to the program adding to, simplifying and enlarging the exc cutive powers come from some of the most reactionary leaders of the Senate. They are frankly unable to concede any power which they do not share. and they believe that as they are the people the concen- tration of further power in the hands of the executive is reaction ary to the core.