The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-26
WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN?
(From the Valve World)


 Germany is working by every scheme that in genuity can devise and money can put into operation to make American workingmen traitors to thelr couh try in it's hour of need.
 What doth it profit a man if he sends his sons and brothers the battlefelds, and after he gets them there he betrays them the enemy by stopping the industrial work without which they can neither win nor escape? ~ are changed by very small events. Had the Monitor not been ready the Merrimac exactly when she was the Union would have been rendered useless and the Civil War might have had different ending HaG someone succeeded in delaying tranSpotalion 31 while the Monitor under construction, what would have become of the whole Union fleet or wooden Shl9 which was bockading the Southern ports?
 Germany wants us to be unready or confused when similar crisis comes.
 Our whole nation is preparing for the turning point this which is to determine whether eV- eryman shall have chance to work out his destiny whether he and his country are to become supJec' to the dictation of a Prussan group.
 If not fully ready when the test comes it will be easier for German armies and German ships German submarines and German aircraft, to Kill the that out from your community to protect you and your rights.
 Whoever from any motive delays work bearing directly or indirectly the will be accessory to the murder of his fellow Americans
 Every strike in the United States, while this wal is in progress is a blow in favor of Germany
 What doth it profit man to increase his wages or decrease his working hours if by doing he con tributes to the victory of nation that makes slaves of white and scourges them as they work?
 The condition of the blacks in America before the Civil War was far better than the condition of the whites of Belgium who today carried off like cat tie, overworked, underfed beaten and sick or well, labor necessarily, often under the fire of their guns.
 What doth it profit man aid a monarch who in this manner has shamelessy re-establshed the slavery of white men? The workingman in America obstructs the cutting of wood the mining of fuel weaving of cloth, the turning of wheels in fac tories rails while this is in progress-he helping the slave masters, the destroyers of civza tion, the murderers of women and children.
 What doth it profit man who has lived in land ncomparabe liberties, of advantages unparalleled in the history of the world to contribute by any act however small, to the of autocracy whom a common man is but cod of earth?
 The workingman who stands faithfully by his du ties day by day allowing person and thought work is rendering the highest kind of patriotic vice his nation and to his family
 What doth it profit man to sell his manhood his sefrespect, perhaps his soul for little selfish gain in such hour? When life's services are meas up the end, those who have faithfully labored through the shall be entitled to their credit as well as those who have led the charges in battle
 What doth it profit a who wants to improve the condition of laboring if he gains little but in so doing prolongs the slavery of Belgian working men, who cannot gain their freedom but by death or through the victory of the Allies?
 Stand by your work for your honor and safe ty, for safety and of your fellow country men who go forth to fight, we'll as for the sake of workngmen who now in actual slavery beneath German slave drivers.