The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-12
AS TO WAR.


 enthusiasm for the war Wlth Ger many. For some reason there does not appear to be the enthusiastic resuouse to the call to arms that iol- lowd the declaration of war against Spain. The pacifcists appear to be strong enough 10 leayen any wal sentiment with dellbcratlon and re merauce. II is not unreasonable that men should inquire how about ii. They have bad the example ol wlat modern war is typided on the European Gatteaelds and they have Literally been led to d surleit with accounts of the horrors that are talk ine place to too lightly regard il all
 It is true tuat theg are called upon bv the President to manifest loyalty, bu. they persist apparently in ask iaz rae Wag of the War, even afteI # has been decided by Congress 1hat var. under the circumstances. is sa, onH possible re.ort in tine event. Well. that is a sign that the reop.. are thinking aad think ina d5er.. and in this they have an alliance with those who oppose wal for far other reasons than the aver ,ee of Jhe working masses.
 sherman said that war is hell Every raH6dst repeats that with nnction. It is admitted 10 be true. But il is passing strange that this should be so freely recognized by q good many who insist upon a eapi- taIist peace being the seventh Heaven.
 It has always been somewhat "i 2. paradox that thousands will de- rounce war in the most violent terms who are quite blind to the mfserics of peace, the violence e peace. the atrocities Of peace t"e -outrages ot peace, the crimes ol peace. This is not jingoistie ar- ticle. it is. merely pointing out that those capitalist opponents of ra- r.a.ism. wherever they are, have not q leg to stand on.
 They watch uumoyed social "is- as.ers: they read unmoved about th, loathsome spread of occupation al disease: they absorb rentals rom slurn and city warren with perfect satisfaction and with not bit ot qualns as 70 tho source from whence it comes They exploit la Dor to the limit and then some, all the while being bitterly against wal and quite eloquent when e£ing its horrors.
 The Industrial Worker has little use for war. But compared to the outrages which are consistently car ried on under the folds of peace War itself is often clean in com parison. IL is all bad.
 From our standpoint, the mas ses who suffer in peace are those also who suner in war, and the misqries of the one condition do not cancel the miseries of the other.
 But it must be pointed out that just as long as capitalism lives and ncurishes, just as long as cXploita- tior is tAe basis of the economic system. capitalism involves surely the evolutionary development of the social activities into war with al- most scientific certainty.
 Hence we take little stock in this opposition to war that is now so loud sounding upon the part of those who have spent their public careers in bolstering mp the system, That system that they bolstered up, that they upheld, that they promot- ed. led surely and definitely as Q logical development and as a natural evolution, into war.
 General Wood delivered an ad- dress to businessmen nj New York State. He said that tho businessmen got the nation into war and 1t was the duties of the soldiers to get them out of the difficulty. He eX- plained that was why he so urgently wanted a more powerful military armament. He knew precisely that there was always danger of war, and as the force that would have to take a part therein, he wanted that force as powerful as possible.
 There is no questioning the need