The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-13

ject of that urge to live and when man can only make a living fight ing, he will fight. Many man has engaged in dangerous occupa- ton where the hazard has been ten times as great as in the army, because he had to do it to get beans.
 It is somewhat singular that men should mention conscription of in- come in the same breath, though with rather exhausted emphasis, as that in which they talk about con- scription of men.
 Yet even on this head. we need have no very idle delusions. The mythical idea that working men pay for wars is about on par with the myth that the working men pay the taxes They do neither one nor the other. It is true that the working mans labor produces the wealth wheretrOm wars and taxes are paid, whence profit. interest and rent are forthcoming but he has nothing to say about it's distribution for all that.
 The Socialist Labor Party is to be congratulated upon having always kept this fact definitely before the workers i'll clear and concise matter of fact, while the socialist party men have been joining their whine with the bourgeois as to the burden of taxes which falls upon the poor worker,
 The worker is about on bed rock. He produces as much now as speed ing up systems, efficiency theories and all that kind of modern slave driving can compel upon him. Of that productivity which the worker develops in the course of the days labor power. which labor power has the happy knack of producing so much more than it is worth. that surplus is divided among a lot of much happier gentlemen in the shape of rent, interest, taxes. profits, They take care Of that divi- sion by the right of ownership and they subdivide in definite propor- mands it. Thus taxes may Q more or less, profits may be more or less, rents more or less, interest may be more or less, but they will all come out of a uniform surplus value ere ated over and above the days wages which is about enough to live upon usually. So the costs of the war may be borne only by the capitalists They pay more taxes and if they do profit. rent, interest, may decrease accordingly.
 But obviously all employers are of paying these taxes. and the little business fellow thinks that the pay ment of taxes when it takes the form of grabbing the incomes over fifty or hundred thousand dollars is about just right. That lets him have his whack and reduces the real fat fish to his taxable standard.
 It is dollars to doughnuts the workers, helping out little business, will say that this conscription of large incomes is about the proper caper and work themselves up to frenzy in it's boosting. But there will not be the same enthusiasm for the seizure of the industries by the people and the collectiviZation Of land and property in the interest of the general welfare in war as we'll as peace. They will not bust big intestine boosting the only really practicable measure in absorbing all profits and all industries and recon. pensing the producers with the bal ance that was over after deducting war expenses.
 You bet not: yet as war meas ure there is equity itself, and simpli- city itself, and efficiency itself. It will however throughout all these talks of fiscal plans be the one con- scription that will never be heard of