The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-04

won't to cut them down and they were cut down in turn. The reyo- lution came about through the working classes and although it had been not wholly unpleasant to the Milukoffs and the like, it essenti- ally placed the workers in power.
 They simply tolerated 9 make shift government. For themselves they formed the real government.
 The theory put forward by Ger mans and upon which they have been actiu5 that the revolution was brought about by workers who were sick of the war because it was wal is not aJ al correct. It was di rected against the Bureaucracy and the Bureau racy was the most will ing Of all for peace. It was in spired by industrial conditions and the desire to tuild the new society because the old was rotten ripe.
 The Russian indifference to the war is certainly to be admitted. They have little or no time to think of it. Acute observers report that Russian workers now practically control the industries They dictate terms O. working and wages and seldom or never leave anything for the employers in the way Of divi- dends. They have inaugurated new wage"scales varying from two hund- red to thousand per cent higher than before and some owners of plants although they are still ope- rating admit that they do not set roub}e from them.
 This has to be sure greatly inter fered with efficiency. It has great ly interfered with business ideals is well as it has interfered with the matter of prosecuting the WAT, and it is because the interests Of the working classes are not so evid- entity inextricably united with the successful prosecution of the war as were the interest of the bureau crats.
 In other words the working class have attained supremacy in Rus sia and those things that obtain their attention first of all are work ing class interests.
 Against the logic of events, then it was difficult to see how even the unquostioned ability of Root could make serious headWay. Machiavelli himself would be lost in the bewild- cring new conditions which are set before him. His people are not their people. nor are their ways has ways They act in a different man. ner. animated with ideals totally unknown as would be the new civi- lization of a Terra Nova.
 Any person who has taken the trouble to observe conditions in the United States may have easily grasped the fact that one condition of things obtains as a general ideal.
 This ideal has pervaded human thought, the public press, the lite rature and the public mind for many decades.
 This Ideal IS that here is land of opportunity. Capital arrives in generous quantities making the place hum with industrial activity Big payrolls are the order of the day The corner grocer becomes the merchant prince. The master of the mosquito fleet becomes the steamship magnate. Steady work good wages, active operations in all directions, fine buildings being ] erected everywhere, new residences and real estate deals of dimensions the order of the day. Great monies made in buying and selling and never such chance for wealth Banks springing up in opulent ri valry, new railroads, great boule- wards, and an immensity of men working and toiling and moiling and newspapers leaping as to circu- lation with giant bounds expound, ing, lauding and boosting the sue cess and the opportunities still ex- isting.
 That is the story written over many a wide area of the United States. In itself it is an epic | Flashing through it are industrial Achilles, and Electors with tneir