The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-12

tary point of view. That every ot- ficer and every soldier should de- sire to see the military system ot which they are units as large, as powerful, as well disciplined and universal as in Prussia is not to be questioned from their point of view. And their point of view is created because of the exigencies and the emergencies which business condi- tions ultimately call forth.
 The position of militarist among business men who profit by the system is supremacy natural. The position of the pacificist among the men of industry. commerce and finance is hypocritical Those who support the system must take the effects with their profit from the causes. Why not? They accept with philosophic indifference the
 variety of industrial atrocities that
 have from time to time stirred labor almost to a frenzy and they indir-
 ectiy sapport the most infamous
 forms of exploitation of women and
 children during times of peace with
 open ca,muess.
 Ii certainly is a luxury in neon
 alsfaucy to hear some men who
 ste1tl~ opposed child lalor laws
 working themselves up as to the horrors of war. The long, sordid, miserable existence Of cheerless
 mil slave is as nothing. while the life in the battlefield is an inferno, only those who have resolutely opposed the industrial horrors can wi;h consistency attack also the hor- TOTS of war. Only those who have watched humanity turned into a gnarled mishapen thing as a result of modern industry can logically also deplorc those fine young lives that are east away on the field ot honor.
 IT the human life that gives itself away on the battlefield for an idea 1 be it however wrongfully conceived still does so under the Inspiration
 ol tnat ideal, there is. TO such sordid misery in the dying as there is ill the living in modern industrial hells Of which there are so many.
 Today we read of this or that avoidable industrial calamity: here in a coal mine, there in munitiol plant, again in railroad disaster 1 These accidents are 99 per cent pre- ventable Those in charge of these operations could have ninety-nine times out of a hundred avoided 1 them did they not allow their lust l for gain to overcome their caution l against accident Moreover, the very
 minute that nation is planted il
 commercial, financial and industria l rivalry against nation, there ana 1 then the seed of war is sown. The
 delay may take place over a series | of years until the slow working psychology of the nation or the race develops the occasion-the day
 the day that always was the inevit-
 able fruition of national capitalism Until the system of exploitation is overthrown everywhere there will | be wars and strifes and struggles Hence everyone who supports the svstem holsters it up, protects il and maintains it, is aiding and sup porting and maintaining the evolu
 ton of that system to eventuate il war.
 Therefore it is that the commerce. i al, industrial or financial magnatt who is strong enthusiastically is log 1 ically militarist The businessman who has prOfitted by the system ano 1 still out of some pretense or an other resists militarism and war, is 1 the hypocrite. He would enjoy l the cause while refusing to allow
 any accountability for the effects
 refusing to admit that such an ef | feet was certain.